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Diego Singh "The Indirect Man"
Tomio Koyama Gallery Roppongi
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Diego Singh
Diego Singh's work is described by curator Dominic Molon as "...constructing imaginary other worlds that function as self-portraits, radically expanding the possibilities of that artistic tradition... The work incorporates the viewer in the artist self-mythology wile remaining deliriously ambivalent about the boundary separating constructed self-identity and fictional license".
In "The Indirect Man," the self-portraits function as synthetic constructions where modernist discourses and mass media languages meet. All the paintings use black as a main component as both color and sign. Like in a night scene, the faces and forms become abstract, the subject is zoomed, cropped, eyes move, multiply or glow while quoting aspects of glam rock, drag culture or homelessness; avoiding direct representation in an atmosphere that is at once, excessive, androgynous and tragic. In some, the canvas passes for a plastic bag becoming almost a sculptural object, another painting depicts a close-up of a mask or minimalist neon structures interacting with a set of eyes, or a mouth. In all the works presented the self-portrait becomes "...an object of inference and not of perception, an object of culture and not of immediate or natural intuition"*1. In Singh's project the status of the self-portrait or the self-portraitist will always retain a hypothetical character, giving the artist a performative role, where the audience constructs a narrative by reading the hints that are proposed.
This exhibition will include a life-size sculpture depicting an almost naked man (he wears gloves and a belt), seated as in one of the most traditional poses in classical sculptural portraiture. The figure has an oversized head that is both baroque wig and rock-alike construction, precariously supported by painted iron sticks.
Note *1 extracted from Jacques Derrida, Memoirs of the Blind, the self portrait and other ruins, Musee du Louvre, 1990.
Opening Reception: April 28th, 18:00-20:00
In "The Indirect Man," the self-portraits function as synthetic constructions where modernist discourses and mass media languages meet. All the paintings use black as a main component as both color and sign. Like in a night scene, the faces and forms become abstract, the subject is zoomed, cropped, eyes move, multiply or glow while quoting aspects of glam rock, drag culture or homelessness; avoiding direct representation in an atmosphere that is at once, excessive, androgynous and tragic. In some, the canvas passes for a plastic bag becoming almost a sculptural object, another painting depicts a close-up of a mask or minimalist neon structures interacting with a set of eyes, or a mouth. In all the works presented the self-portrait becomes "...an object of inference and not of perception, an object of culture and not of immediate or natural intuition"*1. In Singh's project the status of the self-portrait or the self-portraitist will always retain a hypothetical character, giving the artist a performative role, where the audience constructs a narrative by reading the hints that are proposed.
This exhibition will include a life-size sculpture depicting an almost naked man (he wears gloves and a belt), seated as in one of the most traditional poses in classical sculptural portraiture. The figure has an oversized head that is both baroque wig and rock-alike construction, precariously supported by painted iron sticks.
Note *1 extracted from Jacques Derrida, Memoirs of the Blind, the self portrait and other ruins, Musee du Louvre, 1990.
Opening Reception: April 28th, 18:00-20:00
Schedule | Apr 28 (Sat) 2007-May 26 (Sat) 2007 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | http://www.tomiokoyamagallery.com/exhibitions/p/KIYOSUMI/2007/0428DS/eng.html | ||||
| Venue | Tomio Koyama Gallery Roppongi http://www.tomiokoyamagallery.com/ | ||||
| Location | 2F Complex665, 6-5-24 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0032 | ||||
| Access | 2 minute walk from exit 1b at Roppongi Station on the Hbiya or Toei Oedo line, 8 minute walk from exit 7 at Azabu-juban Station on the Nanboku or Toei Oedo line, 11 minute walk from exit 5 at Nogizaka Station on the Chiyoda line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-6434-7225 | ||||
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