A weird, warped, and rather nerdy character representing the young generation's bewilderment is a major protagonist in "Buster's Love", which is running at Tang Contemporary Art until May 30.
This is a solo exhibition by Yan Jingzhou, a 28-year-old artist from Beijing, who will take viewers to explore modernity from his personal perspective as portrayed through indifferent and humorous characters.
The artist creates an imaginative world that includes relationships among characters. Then, simple and short stories are born and, finally, illustrated in his paintings.
The main character is Buster -- a guy with yellow hair, a big nose, big eyes and a big mouth, who is also an analogy of everyone in the daily grind -- the modern man who keeps sinking through life's trivia and whose frightened mindset swells with each passing moment.
The artist brings his distinctive and rich imagination into the image, deliberately confuses the imaginary and real world, narrates from the view of Buster, and stretches the perspective into image language.
Based on plasticine 3D figures, his works start from the details of everyday life, taking the real stories and feelings of himself and the people around him as the main creation source.
He incorporates people's subjective experiences with rational thinking in the artwork and applies it in real life, depicting his true self using absurd artistic language to describe different situations in the world to the audience in a straightforward way.
Behind this humorous and absurd image is a half-visible narrative text. It is rumination and inflation, the silent laughing cries, the delay and suspension of un-happenings, and the modern dilemma of humanity.
Tang Contemporary Art is located at Room 201-206 of River City Bangkok, Charoen Krung 24 and opens Tuesday to Sunday from 11am to 7pm.
Visit tangcontemporary.com or call 02-000-1541.
