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Accession number
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0000-1065-0-CA
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Description
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Brief, broken brushstrokes, dots, and other abstract, blue-coloured gestural marks arranged in various configurations—including columns, a scattered field, and a circular cluster at the centre of the composition. The strokes appear to have been squeezed directly from the tube or painted using an unconventional tool, such as the back of the brush.
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Inscriptions
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None.
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Dimensions with frame
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N/A
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Condition
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Brown stains and tide lines on the reverse due to the medium used seeping through the canvas. Clean strips of white fabric have been added to the edges of the canvas, which has been remounted onto a new stretcher. A full condition report would require an in-person inspection of the work.
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Bibliography of printed matter
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Orianna Cacchione, “Tang Chang: Abstracting the Line, Retrieving the Image,” in Tang Chang: The Painting that is Painted with Poetry is Profoundly Beautiful, (Chicago: Smart Museum of Art, the University of Chicago, 2018), 9.
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Yin Ker, “An Essay on Non-Forms: Tang Chang (1934–1990), a Modern Painter of Literati Aspirations from Bangkok,” in Tang Chang (1934–1990): Non-Forms (Bangkok: The Tang Chang Private Museum), 25, 29.
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All known reproductions.
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Orianna Cacchione, “Tang Chang: Abstracting the Line, Retrieving the Image,” in Tang Chang: The Painting that is Painted with Poetry is Profoundly Beautiful, (Chicago: Smart Museum of Art, the University of Chicago, 2018), 18-19.
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Yin Ker and Marcella Lista, Tang Chang (1934-1990): Non-Forms. (Bangkok: The Tang Chang Private Museum, 2023), cover, 15, 66a.
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Reframing Modernism: Painting from Southeast Asia, Europe and Beyond, eds. Sarah Lee and Sara Siew (Singapore: National Gallery Singapore, 2016), 219.
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Exhibition history.
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Tang Chang: The Painting that is Painted with Poetry is Profoundly Beautiful. Smart Museum of Art, the University of Chicago, Chicago, USA. May 8–August 5, 2018.
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Tang Chang: The Painting that is Painted with Poetry is Profoundly Beautiful. Smart Museum of Art, the University of Chicago, Chicago, USA. May 8–August 5, 2018.
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Tang Chang (1934–1990): Non-Forms. Centre Pompidou, Paris, France. October 20, 2023–April 8, 2024.
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Reframing Modernism: Painting from Southeast Asia, Europe and Beyond. National Gallery Singapore, Singapore. March 31–July 17, 2016.
