汤大尧：史诗 

Tang Dayao :  Epic

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.

「 About Artist 」

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.

作者：站台中国