S.E.A. Focus Curated: hyper-horizon

Artworks by:

Mulyana Jamie Tan Jamie Teo

Jamie & Jamie

22 to 31 January 2021


#01-05, 39 Keppel Road, Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Singapore 089065

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A Mulyana b. 1984, Bandung, Indonesia

Jogja-based Mulyana was educated as an art teacher and   learned knitting and crocheting at the famous book shop collective  Tobucil  in Bandung. Mulyana experiences the act of knitting or crocheting as a form of meditation and prayer. His pieces begin their lives like small organisms, the modules slowly blooming with quiet contemplation into vividly colored clusters of queer forms that seem to hold together tightly, as if a pulling force was binding them relentlessly with invisible strength. These islands were aptly titled,  Sister island, Coral island and such, ironically prompting us to recall coral life on the seabed, instead of man-dominant or artificially reclaimed islands. As you draw closer to peer into the multitude of tiny eyes poking out of the coral-like forms, cute as they may seem, their intimate presence sucks you into their microscopic world of tactility and a parallel life – a channel to transcendence?   

In 2008, Mulyana created his alter-ego, the  Mogus  (Monster), alongside the  Gurita  (octopus) and  Sigarantang  (Mulyana’s clan name). The Mogus is made of knitted pompoms from unused bulky yarn, adapted from images of marine life with its beautiful diversity and mystery.“In God’s eyes, our being in this life is to eventually go to a beautiful place,” says Mulyana for whom art making is a privileged way of “showing gratitude to our Creator who gives him a sound mind and a healthy body to be part of life on earth”. Often, Mulyana speaks of his work with vigorous reference to spirituality and a sense of a higher being guiding his act of creation.

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Coral Island Harmony #5 2020

Yarn, Dacron, Cable Wire, Plastic Web

Size Variable (Approx H200 x W200 x L38cm)

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Mulyana experiences the act of knitting and crocheting as a form of silent meditation and prayer. In Coral Island Harmony #5, small clusters of unique , vividly coloured corals are held together tightly by an invisible, unseen force, forming into an exuberant, diverse ocean ecosystem that recalls a thriving marine seascape, and plays with the idea of a close-knit community. Modular in nature, the artwork serves as an important reminder that together, we are all capable of creating boundless beauty and harmony. The coral island is also home to the Mogus, an octopus-like creature that is the alter ego of the artist.

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Coral Island Harmony #5 2020

Yarn, Dacron, Cable Wire, Plastic Web

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Mulyana CV

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A Education: 2005, Jurusan Pendidikan Seni Rupa, UPI, Bandung.

2004-2005, Jurusan Menejemen Lembaga Keuangan Islam, ISID Gontor, Ponorogo.

Solo Exhibitions: 2020, The Messenger, Art Porters, Singapore 2020, Diver(sea)ty, ESPLANADE- Theatres on the Bay, Singapore 2019, Anima Mundi, Central Embassy, Bangkok, Thailand 2019, A Man, A Monster, and The Sea, The Goods Shed (FORM), Perth, Australia 2018, Multiple Hands, Selasar Sunaryo, Bandung 2018, Coral Atlas, Art Central Hong Kong, HK 2012, Mogus World I, Galeri Gerilya, Bandung. 2012, Mogus World II, Kedai Kebun Forum, Yogyakarta. 2009, Time after Time, Niagara Sarang Setan, Bandung.

Commission Works: 2019, Window Display HERMES, Seoul.

2019, Window Display HERMES, Singapore.

2018, Sea Remembers, ART|JOG|11, Yogyakarta.

2017, 3 Sister Islands, Facebook Artists in Residence, Jakarta.

Residencies: 2019, Project 11, Melbourne, Australia

2014, Nafas Residency, Yogyakarta

Group Exhibitions: 2021, hyper-horizon, S.E.A Focus 2021, Art Porters Gallery, Singapore

2020, Equilibrium: At the Boundary Between Human and Environment, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, South Korea

2020, Resilience, ART|JOG|12, Yogyakarta

2020, Jumping The Shadow, Sapar Contemporary, New York

2019, Indonesian Contemporary Art and Design 2019: Faktor X, Jakarta

2019, We Are Robot, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Melbourne, Australia

2019, A Man, A Monster, and The Sea, Orange County Museum of Art, California, USA

2018, Enlightment, ART|JOG|11, Yogyakarta

2017, Age of Hope Biennale Jogja XIV, Yogyakarta

2017, Changing Prespective, ART|JOG|10, Yogyakarta.

2016, Imaginarium: Over The Ocean Under The Sea, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore.

2016, Forest, Artporters, Artstage Singapore, Singapore.

2015, Mapping Melbourne, Multicultural Arts Victoria, Australia.

2015, Let Me Know You More, Chandan Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

2015, Infinity In Flux, ART|JOG|8, Taman Budaya, Yogyakarta.

2014, Bandung New Emergence, Selasar Sunaryo Artspace, Bandung.

2014, 4 Artists of Nafas Residensi, Yogyakarta; and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

2013, Bandung Contemporary: Disposition, Lawangwangi Creative Space, Bandung.

2012, Indonesian Contemporary Fiber Art #1: Mapping, Art1 Gallery, Jakarta.

2012, Start Light, Galeri Gerilya, Bandung.

2012, Design/Art: Renegotiating Boundaries, Lawangwangi Creative Space, Bandung.

2012, Reposisi, Galeri Nasional, Jakarta.

2011, Contemporary Archeology Chapter Two, SIGIarts, Jakarta.

2010, Alter Media, Djamoe #4, UPI Bandung.

2010, Leasure All Mine, Play Dead #2, Galeri Padi, Bandung.

2010, Play Your Magic Finger, Tobucil & Klabs, Bandung.

2010, La Light Music Fest, Sabuga, Bandung. 2009, Deer Andry, Mes 56, Yogyakarta. 2009, Toys Are Us, Tobucil & Klabs, Bandung.

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Grey Areas Triptych by Jamie Tan and Jamie Teo

A grey area refers to an area or something that lacks clearly defined characteristics, or existing between two extremes and having mixed characteristics of both. In paint, black is all colours combined and white is the absence of colour. Grey exists in between, embodying the quality of ambiguity which metaphorically translates to an infinity of possibilities.

Reflecting upon the perception of grey and looking beyond its negatively associated meanings of dull, monotonous, boring, the triptych explores the infinite potential of the colour.

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Jamie Tan b. 1990, Singapore

Jamie Tan is interested in the elusive nature of colours and their formal possibilities in painting. To him, colours embody the spirit of freedom, where they seemingly expand, recede and overlap within their own boundaries. In his artworks, Tan explores the interaction of colours and how we perceive them — colours seem static by themselves but enter a transformative, ever-shifting state when relative to their surroundings. The simplicity of tonal values in his paintings allows the viewer to experience a sense of movement; a pushing and pulling effect achieved through the contrast of lightness and darkness and the distances between Tan’s methodically positioned bands of colours.

Tan received his BA (First class honours) in Fine Arts from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore, awarded by Goldsmith University of London, in 2017. Since graduation, Tan has participated in several solo and group exhibitions and regional art fairs in Malaysia and Singapore

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Oil on Linen

H145 x W110 cm

Blank Slates begins with the idea of how a painter would use the colour wheel as a chart/map. Guided by the colour wheel, painters establish their coordinates on their paintings and plot bridging points of colours that eventually runs in a full circle. Tan paints the sequence of the colour wheel as an underpainting and divides them horizontally into 12 sections, with different tonal values of grey in columns of different sizes/ ascending order. The artist then selectively leave out areas where colours reveal themselves through tiny gaps and reveal even more when the viewer orientate themselves to the side of the painting.

The ephemeral nature of grey and its ambiguous quality intrigues Tan as grey possesses the ability to interact with other colours from within, transforming and shifting said colours into different shades and tones. In other words, if colour is an entity, grey is the catalyst of its character.

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Blank Slates 2020

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Blank Slates 2020

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Jamie Tan CV

Education 2012 - 2015 Diploma in Fine Arts - Painting

LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore

2015 - 2017 Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours) Fine Arts

LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore

The McNally School of Fine Arts, Goldsmiths University of London

Select group exhibitions 2021 hyper-horizon, S.E.A Focus 2021, Art Porters Gallery, Singapore

2020 Offline Colour, Art Porters Gallery, Singapore

2018 Art Expo Malaysia, TAKSU gallery, Kuala Lumpur

2018 Locals only, TAKSU gallery, Singapore

2018 Art Stage Singapore, TAKSU gallery, Singapore

2017 Art Expo Malaysia, TAKSU gallery, Kuala Lumpur

2017 Bilateral Bonds, TAKSU gallery, Kuala Lumpur

2017 MALTI, One East Asia Gallery, Singapore

2017 LASALLE Work in progress show: Neither glimmer nor ghost, Institute of

Contemporary Arts, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore

2015 The LASALLE Show: ‘Garnish with’, Institute of Contemporary Arts, LASALLE

College of the Arts, Singapore

2015 LASALLE ‘Fantastic Rubbish: For the Love of Locality’ Exhibition,
 Brother Joseph McNally Gallery, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore

2014 LASALLE ‘A Space Across From You” Exhibition, Project Space Institute of

Contemporary Arts, Singapore

2014 LASALLE ‘Should We look On The Other Side” Exhibition, Praxis Space

Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore

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Jamie Teo b. 1996, Singapore

Drawn by the peculiar sensation of not being able to focus on  any particular area within the surface of colours in her abstract works,  Jamie Teo invites viewers to experience a different approach to seeing by meticulously blending colours to both create and investigate its movement and ambiguous outcomes.

Her  paintings embody a sense of tension that lingers between the stillness and phenomenal movement where colours begin to change the longer you look at them. Areas of unique, impulsive textured brushstrokes are built up from the rigid process of pushing thick accumulated paint back and forth.

This juxtaposition from the smooth and flat gradient surface captures fleeting moments where colours merge and break apart from each other within an ever-changing field of stillness, evoking a visual interaction between the viewer and the work, seeing and experiencing an intangible in-between.

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Oil on Linen

H145 x W110 cm

Responding to the theme of hyper-horizon, the artwork investigates deeper shades of colours and their relationship with black and white. The painting highlights the climax of white that begin to drown out toward the edges of the canvas and is then juxtaposed with a split into two areas, where intense shades of black slowly melt away, revealing deep blues and purples which fades into a grey.

The ‘new normal’ pushes everyone out from their comfort zone and into new territories. Experiencing something new may be daunting at first but it is also crucial for us to do so as we would be oblivious to what the results could have been, be it good or bad. The contrast between the use of black and white in the painting represents the uncertainty and mystery of what lies ahead, but once we venture into the darkness, we are often astounded by what it holds and carries within it as well.

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Untitled (Intense Black, Ultramarine

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Jamie Teo CV

Education 2013 - 2016 Diploma in Fine Arts - Painting

LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore

2016 - 2018 Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours) Fine Arts

LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore

The McNally School of Fine Arts, Goldsmiths University of London

Select group exhibitions 2021 hyper-horizon, S.E.A Focus 2021, Art Porters Gallery, Singapore

2020 Offline Colour, Art Porters Gallery, Singapore

2019 Art Expo Malaysia 2019, Art Porters Gallery, MATRADE Exhibition and

Convention Centre (MECC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

2019 Art Jakarta, Art Porters Gallery, Jakarta Convention Centre Senayan

Indonesia

2019 S.E.A. Focus, Art Porters Gallery, Gillman Barracks, Singapore

2018 2018 UOB Painting of the Year Regional Winnings’ Showcase, UOB Art

Gallery, UOB Plaza 1, Singapore

2018 KAC, Katara Art Center, Katara Cultural Village Building 5, Doha, Qatar

2019 S.E.A. Focus, Art Porters Gallery, Gillman Barracks, Singapore

2018 Art Expo Malaysia 2018, Art Porters Gallery, MATRADE Exhibition and

Convention Centre (MECC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Awards & Achievements2018 37th UOB Painting of the Year Singapore, Emerging Artist Category, Silver Award

2016 The LASALLE Bursary (BA)

2016 The Winston Oh Travel Award

2015 The LASALLE Bursary (Diploma)

2015 CDC/CCC Arts Institution Bursary

Select solo exhibitions 2019 Shifting Stillness, Solo exhibition by Jamie Teo, UOB Art Gallery,

Singapore

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2018 The LASALLE Show 2018, LASALLE College of the Arts, Institute of

Contemporary Arts Singapore, Singapore

2018 A Dive, Splendid!, LASALLE College of the Arts, Winstedt Campus,

Singapore

2018 Melange, LASALLE College of the Arts, Project Space, Institute of

Contemporary Arts, Singapore

2017 Between; +Project, Gallery Tomo, Kyoto, Japan

2016 The Measure of Things, The Winston Oh Travel Award, LASALLE College

of the Arts, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore

2016 Between Walls, The LASALLE Show 2016, LASALLE College of the Arts,

Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore

2016 Gas and Dust: The Manufactured Space, LASALLE College of the Arts,

Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore

2016 The Pondok, Winstedt Campus, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore

2015 As Far as I could Reach, LASALLE College of the Arts, Institute of

Contemporary Arts, Singapore

2015 SAVANTS: The Young Artists Among Us Exhibition, The Arts House,

Singapore

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Jamie & Jamie

Jamie Tan and Jamie Teo first met in LASALLE during their school days. After a few years of separate practice, they exhibited together for the first time, with their joint exhibition Offline Colour, held at Art Porters Gallery from October to December 2020. In January 2021, Jamie and Jamie are presenting a triptych in response to the curated theme of hyper-horizon at the prestigious S.E.A. Focus 2021.

Jamie and Jamie are represented by Art Porters Gallery.

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As Good as Grey 2020

Oil on Linen

H190x W120 cm

As Good as Grey is a play on the saying as good as gold, overthrowing the negative connotations of the term grey into something that should be appreciated and not overlooked. Drawing the viewers in through the darkest mid-point of the painting, a spectrum of colour hidden between the rough and rugged textures begins to reveal itself. Transitioning between shades of orange and teal, the colours seem to shift and shine through the initial turbulent waves of black and slowly fades out into white. The darkness of black and grey transforms from something that hinders and swallows into something that accentuates and emphasises the lightness of hope.

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