Lot 56: TIONG ANG

TIONG ANG DUTCH B. 1961 MIJN NAAM IS POTLOOD ( POTLOT! PENSIL!, PENCIL! ) PART #2 2009 graphite, clay, acrylic on canvas, wood, plasticine and pigment 190 x 130 cm / 74.8 x 51.18"; objects: c. 68 x 7 x 7 cm / 26.77 x 2.76 x 2.76" (3)

Some recent solo exhibitions
Lumen Travo, Amsterdam 2009, '(THE) UNFORGOTTEN'
Florence Lynch Gallery, New York 2003, 'Prisoners'
Institute of Visual Arts, Milwaukee 2001

Some recent group exhibitions
Krannert Art Museum, Champaign 2009, 'On Screen: Global Intimacy'
Centraal Museum, Utrecht 2009, 'Beyond the Dutch'
7th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai 2008, 'Translocalmotion'
MUHKA, Antwerp 2007, 'Collectiepresentatie XVIII: De ontmoeting'
Biennale di Venezia, Venice 2001, 'Plateau of Humankind'

Selected publications
Meta Knol [et al.], Beyond The Dutch, Utrecht: Centraal Museum 2009
Annette W. Balkema [et al.], The Shanghai Papers, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz 2008
Saskia Bos [et al.], If walls had ears: De Appel 1984-2005, Amsterdam: De Appel 2005
Marilu Knode, Tiong Ang: Prisoners, New York: Florence Lynch Gallery/Amsterdam: Lumen Travo 2003
Tiong Ang. Tiong Ang: Underworld, Groningen: Centrum Beeldende Kunst 2001

Selected public and corporate collections
AMC Kunstcollectie, NL • Rabo Kunstcollectie, NL • MUHKA, Antwerp, BE • Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, NL • De Nederlandsche Bank, NL • Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, NL • Akzo Nobel Art Foundation, NL

donated by the artist

Tiong Ang uses different media specific to his topics - whether painting, video installation, photography or social projects - and aims to carefully portray people's negotiations and behaviour within an ethically and socially hybridized environment. He employs a mixture of found footage and existing objects with manipulated, edited imagery to evoke an alternative state of mind, one that seems to be disoriented and even cut off from society, yet also fluid, poetic and accellerating into alternative zones of knowledge. Reality and fiction, distance and engagement, historical memory and utopian projection intertwine in his methods.
Recently he has worked on more elaborate research based projects in which a multitude of media investigates the layerdness of perspectives of a given subject matter. The installation My Name is Pencil (2009), produced for the exhibition 'Beyond the Dutch' at Centraal Museum Utrecht about the (post)colonial relationships between The Netherlands and Indonesia, belongs to this category.

Tiong Ang was resident artist at the Rijksakademie in 1988-1990.
He won the Koninklijke Subsidie voor Vrije Schilderkunst (NL) in 1991 and an Honourable mention at the 2001 Venice Biennale (IT).