These Painter's Painters

These Painter’s Painters imagines a show that gathers painters from around Asia who each have distinctive practices, backgrounds, and interests. Each individual lexicon is articulated through very different approaches. There is a spectrum of varying explorations in figuration/abstraction, corporality/separation, flatness/sculpturality, histories/representation, subjectivity/objectivity, intention/accident, repetition/gesture, poetry/systems. It is difficult to place each painter’s practice within easily defined conceptual boundaries: dichotomist, over-simplistic attitudes will only lead to marginal understandings of each painter’s work. It is almost as if the material of each painter’s work becomes much less important than their respective content, and here is the interesting juncture: that each painter’s practice self-reflexively addresses its own genre in some way.

Presented independently from one another in different contexts, each painter is ablebto stand alone and invite its audience to ponder upon plethora of multifaceted ideas.
The hypothesis behind These Painter’s Painters, however, is that there is a way by which placing certain painter’s works together creates a dialogue that may enrich our understanding of each artist’s individual practices.

These Painter’s Painters imagines the possibility of only painters being its sole audience. That even then, it would be worthwhile for themselves. Like a show of little-inside jokes, irony, and hat-tips to history that only other painters would understand, with the presence of an audience. It is then up to the observer to contemplate upon these ideas and reach their own inferences.

These Painter’s Painters does not pretend to be a comprehensive survey of painters in any way, but instead is based on one’s reflection and observations on how to present cohesively a stimulating conversation of painters around the region who’s works otherwise would rarely get a chance to be seen together.

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