"Minimalism: Space. Light. Object.", the first exhibition of the most important Minimalism in Asia, presented by the National Gallery and ArtScience Museum Singapore. It explores the development of Minimal art from the 1950s to the present day, in some multiple perspectives, from New York, to Europe and the Asia Pacific region, and delves into Asian philosophy and meditate on notions of the Void and ‘nothingness’ exploring the impact these ideas had on Minamalism, contemporary artists across the world now. Tracing its shift from painting to photography, sculpture, to installations, immersive environments, Music, Video and multimedia, by more than 80 artists, 150 pieces of works, which features work by some of the most significant artists of the past 70 years, including Mark Rothko (USA, 1903-1970), Donald Judd (USA, 1928-1994); Anish Kapoor (India, 1954); Tatsuo Miyajima (Japan, 1957 ); Lee Ufan (Korea/Japan, 1936); Olafur Eliasson (Denmark/Iceland, 1967); Mona Hatoum (Arabic, 1952). TAN Ping (China, 1960), ZHANG Yu (China, 1959) and WANG Jian (China, 1972) from PIFO Gallery in China are invited to the exhibition with other Chinese artists: Ai Weiwei (China, 1957), Song Dong (China, 1966), etc. 

WANG Jian

Photography，2009-2016

Giclée print

 Artist - WANG Jian

Minimalism: Space, Light. Object., ArtScience Museum Singapore, installation view, figure left is Donald Judd's work, the right is Wang Jian's work

Wang jian's 16 photographic pieces are included in the exhibition. He takes hundreds of photographs as he goes about his daily life, the abstract and minimal artwork draws from Eastern philosophies, Chinese Maximalism, and echoes the repetition apparent in Minimalist art from the 1960s. The unassuming beauty of simple actions and the everyday are his inspiration. His photographs capture moments in time such as a shadow, the way that light spills from a window onto a smooth wall, the curve of someone's neck as it falls to the shoulder or a bare window in the side of a blank wall. Wang Jian's recurring ritual of photographing his daily life produces seemingly simple images that articulate the sublime in the mundane. 

WANG Jian

Photography，2009-2016

Giclée print

WANG Jian 

Chinese, b. 1972, Handan. Lives and works in Beijing.

Wang Jian's works could be considered as visual auto biographies. Everything and nothing are equally important to him and to his work. Every thought and feeling, his time in the studio and every other moment of his life, is compressed and held in the vast emptiness of his black canvases as well as in the small blank spaces he sometimes leaves unpainted. To some extent WangJian's work could be defined in terms of Chinese Maximalism.

Wang Jian's ideas are fixed, complete and finished – almost in an instant as his practice often has a starting point in photography – and then fixed again in the pragmatic form of a painting. Yet many of his works are simultaneously in a state of continual flux and uncertainty. Many of his photographic sketches', artworks in their own right, also act as departure points for other works. The liminal – the fissures and areas of intense blackness in his paintings – all gesture at ‘nothingness’ and bring us full circle resolving Wang Jian’s practice once again into a coherent body of work that is simultaneously spiritual and sublime, relevant and provocative.

Minimalism: Space. Light. Object., ArtScience Museum Singapore, installation view

(courtesy of the  ArtScience Museum Singapore in part of photos and texts )

Exhibition Date: 2018.11.16 - 2019.04.14

Venue: ArtScience Museum, The National Gallery, Singapore

More information info: 

https://zh.marinabaysands.com/museum/minimalism.html

Related link: 

NEWS | Tan Ping,Zhang Yu,Wang Jian at Singapore Minimalism Show

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