Primo Marella Gallery is proud to present “Deep S.E.A. Contemporary Art from South East Asia”, the brand-new collective exhibition featuring a curatorial selection of deeply expressive living artists from the South East region of Asia, one of the most exciting fields of inquiry today.
The show explores a plenty of artistic practises and approaches, generated and conceived in an ever-evolving vibrant region, where the Western categories of “modern” and “contemporary” still sound unfamiliar and ineligible, as well as “space” and “time” hardly find room in such a young geopolitical area of the world (Southeast Asia entered the field of study in the aftermath of the Second World War, in the early Fifties).
Far from being a simple juxtaposition of names and labels, this coherent collection of ideas, perspectives and sights first seeks to set the work of Southeast Asian artists within its own framework, claiming its independence from any cultural obligation to major neighbour states.
Through comparison, “Deep S.E.A.”, transcends national boundaries and offer the viewers an unexpected chance to build visual and mental bridges upon the different facets of regional art, covering a range of almost forty years of art making.
The group show is further illuminated with the release of a catalogue that aims to result into a key tool for in-depth analysis of the selected artists.
Artists: Aung Ko (Myanmar), Donna Ong (Singapore), Sopheap Pich (Cambodia), Natee Utarit (Thailand), Nithakhong Somsanith (Laos), Khvay Samnang (Cambodia), Aditya Novali (Indonesia), La Huy (Vietnam), Ruben Pang (Singapore), Nguy?n Thái Tu?n (Vietnam), Isabel & Alfredo Aquilizan (Philippines).
Contributors: Jim Amberson (Singapore), Zoe Butt (Vietnam), Catherine Choron-Baix (France), Patrick D. Flores (Philippines), Erin Gleeson (Cambodia), Tony Godfrey (Singapore), June Yap (Singapore), Iola Lenzi (Myanmar) and Jim Supangkat (Indonesia).
A city dreams of a city (I)
2009 - Glassware - Cm 142 x 223 x 55
A city dreams of a city (II)
2009 - Glassware - Cm 142 x 223 x 55
Fields of Rattanakiri No. 1
2011 - Bamboo, rattan, burlap, wire, beeswax, damar resin, earth pigment, plastics, charcoal, oil paint - Cm 200 x 200 x 8
Floor relief (white noise)
2011 - Bamboo, rattan, burlap, wire, beeswax, damar resin, earth pigment, plastics, charcoal, oil paint - Cm 162 x 122 x 8
#13 Khvay Samang, Human Nature series
2011 - Digital C-Print - 80 x 120
#19 Khvay Samnang, Human Nature series
2011 - Digital C-Print - 80 x 120
#18 Khvay Samnang, Human Nature series
2011 - Digital C-Print - 120 x 180
#20 Khvay Samnang, Human Nature series
2011 - Digital C-Print - 120 x 180
The Absence
2011 - Oil on canvas - 100 x 80
The Defiance
2011 - Oil on canvas - 100 x 150
Untitled (Desert life)
2012 - Bamboo, rattan, burlap, wire, beeswax, damar resin, earth pigment, plastics, charcoal, oil paint - Cm 101 x 102 x 6
Project Another Country (diptych)
2012 - Graphite on paper - 132 x 106 each
Untitled (Square Wall Relief)
2012 - Bamboo, rattan, burlap, wire, beeswax, damar resin, earth pigment, plastics, charcoal, oil paint - Cm 101 x 102 x 6
Untitled (Wall and Half Floor)
2012 - Bamboo, rattan, burlap, wire, beeswax, damar resin, earth pigment, plastics, charcoal, oil paint - Cm 101 x 102 x 6
Afternoon
2012 - Oil on canvas - Cm 150 x 200
Untitled (The church in Quang Tri II)
2012 - Oil on canvas - Cm 150 x 200
Untitled
2012 - Oil on canvas - Cm 150 x 220
Untitled
2012 - Oil on canvas - Cm 170 x 150
Untitled
2012 - Oil on canvas - Cm 180 x 150
At the heart of the sun
2012 - Oil and alkyd medium on aluminum panel - Cm 151 x 94
Painless
2012 - Oil and alkyd medium on aluminum panel - Cm 150 x 94
Laughter
2012 - Oil and alkyd medium on aluminum panel - Cm 170 x 121
Stargazers
2012 - Oil and alkyd medium on aluminum panel - Cm 75 x 60
The Storm
2012 - Oil and alkyd medium on aluminum panel - Cm 75 x 60
Drifting into nothingness
2012 - Wax and old musical books - 30 x 45 x 5
H.u.m.m.m....
2012 - C-Print stills - Cm 70 x 100
Music
2012 - Wax and old musical books - 170 x 45 x 20
H.u.m.m.m....
2012 - C-Print stills - Cm 70 x 100
Old buddhist book
2012 - wax and old bubdisht book - Cm 26 x 17 x 32; 18 x 14 x 28; 20 x 16 x 31
Old buddhist book
2012 - Wax and old bubdisht book - Cm 26 x 17 x 32; 18 x 14 x 28; 20 x 16 x 31
Old buddhist book
2012 - Wax and old bubdisht book - Cm 26 x 17 x 32; 18 x 14 x 28; 20 x 16 x 31
End Green
2012 - Teak wood and playwood - Cm 142 x 223 x 55