站台中国｜汤大尧个展《史诗》现场

汤大尧：史诗 

Tang Dayao :  Epic

站台中国于2020年9月5日至10月11日呈现汤大尧个展《史诗》。展览聚焦汤大尧2018-2020历三年心血之作，以《史诗1》、《史诗2》两幅大型绘画创作为主体，描绘了宏大的集体乱斗场面。该系列作品涉及策划、剧置、人设等复合式视觉-叙事体验；艺术家的兴趣涉及视觉对尺度的感知，用虚拟的史诗使历史模糊化，提示着对时间和事实的怀疑。

在繁杂的全因素创作中，汤大尧所一惯秉持的构图意识和首次尝试恢宏场面相得益彰，与精微的人物设定形成碰撞。画面中惊人地囊括了上千个人物安排，包括数十个近景人物；艺术家将人物巧妙嵌入对自然地形的深情描绘中，将传统山水画中“点景人物”精细化、个性化处理，是他人物处理平衡技巧的重要心得之一。同时作为非常规的大场面制作，艺术家摒弃了宏大题材绘画创作一般意义上的史料面貌及现实主义传统，更得虚拟信息-媒体时代的青年文化观感，参考了电竞游戏场景的某些风格。在全球政治和人心越来越面临混乱和不确定的未来中，“乱斗”和“史诗性”对当下有一定启示意义。

Platform China is privileged to announce that Tang Dayao's solo exhibition "Epic " was launched on Sept. 05, 2020.

As the work of Tang Dayao after three-year painstaking efforts from 2018 to 2020, Epic 1 describes the grand scene of collective melee, and involves combined vision-narration experience, such as planning, comprehensive setting and character setting. The artist's interest involves visual perception of scale, using virtual epics to blur history. It reminds us to doubt about time and fact.

During the multifarious all-factor creation, his consistent composition consciousness and first attempt of grand scene bring out the best in each other, and collide with the refined character setting. Wonderfully, the picture includes thousands of figures and dozens of characters in close shot. The author ingeniously embeds the figures in the affectionate description of natural landform, and processes the “figures displaying the landscape” in traditional landscape painting in a refined and personalized manner. This is one of the important experiences in the balanced character management skills of the author. Meanwhile, in the production of the non-conventional big scene, the author abandons the historical appearance and realistic tradition of epic painting in general sense, even demonstrates the impression of youth culture in the virtual information-media era, and refers to certain styles of scenes of electronic sports game. In the future with ever-chaotic and uncertain global politics and public feeling, melee and “epic” boast certain enlightenment today.

Tang Dayao, born in Hunan province in 1984. Graduated from Oil Painting Department of the No.5 Studio, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 2006, Currently living and working in Guangzhou. Tang Dayao’s paintings base on his double experience of knowledge and life. Meanwhile, he makes use of the resources of art history to project his own psychological experience and feelings in the works, calmly and restraint ly conveying the distance between the eye and the experience.

Recent solo exhibitions include: “Epic" Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing (2020); “Strange Guest” Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing (2016); “Making A Notch On The Side Of A Moving Boat” Sandor Gallery, Guangzhou (2012); “Reflection or Refraction”, OCT Art & Design Gallery, Shenzhen (2011).

Recent major group exhibitions: 15th Anniversary Special Exhibition, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing (2020); “Hic Sunt Leones”, 798 Art Center, Beijing (2019); “Backlighting” Yang Feng Art Foundation, Shenzhen (2018); “Transcen Dental Empathy”, Antenna Space, Shanghai (2018); “Jungle III - Common”, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing (2017);“Plum Blossom, Orchid, Bamboo, Chrysanthemum”, Guangdong Times Art Museum, Guangzhou (2017);“Each to His Own - Li Wendong & Wei Xingye Collection” , OCAT Contemporary Art Xi’an, Xi'an (2016); “Hinterland”, Times Museum, Guangzhou (2015); “Jungle II - A Thriving Morphology: Theory Of Relativity”, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing(2013); “Forward! - Contemporary Art & Contemporary City”, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai(2013).

Major fairs include: Basel Hong Kong and Shanghai West Bund Art & Design. 

His works have been collected by White Rabbit Gallery (Sydney), Yang Feng Art Foundation and major private collectors.