Artist

Tang Chang

Born in Bangkok, 1934-1990

Tang Chang is recognised as an important figure of Thai modern art, while not fully integrated in the national cannon, perhaps due to his Chinese descent and his explicit embracing of his origins. His prolific body of work ranges from informal gestural abstract painting to expressionist portraiture, as well as extensive poetry- drawing. The clear recognition of calligraphy in the materiality of his large-scale canvases translates a gesture of violence and angst. His work is marked by the years following anti- Chinese violence and the poetry-drawings should be read on the background of the 1970s student uprisings and crackdown by the military regime. In this context, informed by nationalism and a conservative outlook in artistic production, Tang Chang’s paintings were double outcasts, for being too international abstract and for being too Chinese.

Exhibitions
Exhibitions
The world is our home. A poem on abstraction
Para Site presents The world is our home. A poem on abstraction, featuring works by Robert Motherwell,...
12 Dec 2015 - 06 Mar 2016
Para Site
Hong Kong
Exhibitions
“Misfits”: Pages From a Loose-leaf Modernity
Haus der Kulturen der Welt presents “Misfits: Pages From a Loose-leaf Modernity”, a group...
21 Apr 2017 - 03 Jul 2017
Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Berlin
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