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Ruben Pang
Singapore , b. 1990

Ruben Pang Singapore , b. 1990

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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Ruben Pang, Phlox, 2025

Ruben Pang Singapore , b. 1990

Phlox, 2025
Oil, alkyd and dammar varnish on aluminum composite panel
180 × 140 cm
Signed and dated 2025 verso
Phlox is a painting that takes the compositional form of “Fall of the Damned” by Peter Paul Rubens as a starting point. While the Rubens’ painting depicts the rebel angels...
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Phlox is a painting that takes the compositional form of “Fall of the Damned” by Peter Paul Rubens as a starting point.

While the Rubens’ painting depicts the rebel angels being cast out of heaven, in my painting, what is portrayed is more a variety of variations of humanoid and amphibious lifeforms, populating a land. Instead of the theme of damnation, the theme is of integration, population and the primordial, stirring of life.

The thing I look for the most in this painting was “vitality”, I wanted the piece to look like it was ripening, blooming, coming to life, to reach its most saturated form, like how a flower just before full bloom has its most intense color. I wanted a work that was rich in intensity, but not sugary, not candied, more of the richness of the breaking of dawn, as a red sun cracks through the sky.

In ancient Taoist traditions, there is no concept of a single soul within in, but that we are made of 10 different spirits, through integration and harmonization, form what we think of as a unified spirit. And in this sense, I like to imagine from a distant perspective, how much of life becomes beautiful from a distance, like the stormy eye of Jupiter—up close it is experienced as fragmented lands and violent winds, but from a distance, it is the natural, slow, swirling progression of an eddy, building upon itself.

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Phlox è un dipinto che prende spunto dalla forma compositiva de "La caduta dei dannati" di Pieter Paul Rubens.

Mentre il dipinto di Rubens raffigura gli angeli ribelli cacciati dal paradiso, nel mio dipinto ciò che viene ritratto è piuttosto una varietà di forme di vita umanoidi e anfibie che popolano una terra. Invece del tema della dannazione, il tema è quello dell'integrazione, della popolazione e del fermento primordiale della vita.

Ciò che più cerco in questo dipinto è la "vitalità": volevo che l'opera sembrasse maturare, sbocciare, prendere vita, raggiungere la sua forma più satura, come un fiore che poco prima della piena fioritura raggiunge il suo colore più intenso. Volevo un'opera che fosse ricca di intensità, ma non zuccherosa, non candita, più simile alla ricchezza dell'alba, mentre un sole rosso squarcia il cielo.

Nelle antiche tradizioni taoiste, non esiste il concetto di un'unica anima interiore, ma che siamo composti da 10 spiriti diversi che, attraverso l'integrazione e l'armonizzazione, formano ciò che consideriamo uno spirito unificato. E in questo senso, mi piace immaginare, da una prospettiva distante, quanto la vita diventi bella da lontano, come l'occhio tempestoso di Giove: da vicino è percepito come terre frammentate e venti violenti, ma da lontano è la naturale, lenta e vorticosa progressione di un vortice che si costruisce su se stesso.

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