Vu Dan Tan’s Lithography
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Opening: Thu 22 21 Jan, 5 – 8 pm
Exhibition: 21 Jan – 07 Feb
Salon Natasha
The exhibition of lithography by Vu Dan Tan at Salon Natasha is organized to commemorate the memory of the artist on the 100th day since he passed away. All the lithographs were made in Muka studio (New Zealand) in 1996 when Vu Dan Tan had been invited there for the art residency. These works had been never exhibited in Vietnam before.
The residency of Vu Dan Tan in Muka was related to the Youth prints project initiated by the studio-gallery. The idea of the project springs from the question asked by Frans and Magda’s daughters when they were kids: “Why is real art not affordable for children and young people?”
For the Youth prints project Vu Dan Tan made a series of eight lithographs which he called “A Travelling Circus”. The images – tigers, elephants, unicorns and flying angels – were borrowed from his 3-dimensional installation pieces cut from cigarette packages. The fact remains that his best known works are cutouts from just such boxes representing elephants and mythical lion-dogs, smiling clowns, terrifying monsters and women-angels. The artist began to recycle mundane objects, giving them a new more adventurous life, in the mid-90’s. For more than ten years thereafter Tan worked with a variety of boxes transforming them into the playful creatures of his childish emotional world. As Ian Howard said: “In his own private way, Tan confounds the inevitable and immutable processes of the world of objects by changing the value and meaning of already used things” .
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