Ben Ashton, Jochen Mühlenbrink, Ivan Pokidyshev
We Paint What You Might See
Aug 22 – Oct 10, 2026
Opening: Saturday, Aug 22, 5pm – 7pm
Courtesy the artist and Tang Contemporary.
The title We Paint What You Might See reflects a shared impulse among the artists to treat painting not as a transparent record of the visible world, but as a deliberate reshaping of its surface. Each artist works from a position of technical mastery, yet none allows that mastery to settle into simple representation. Instead, they place both the physical act of seeing and the psychological process of perception under quiet pressure, opening a space where what appears is never exactly what is there.
At the heart of their practices lies a philosophical tension between the physical and the perceived. The eye registers colour, form, texture and light. The mind, however, constantly interprets, completes and sometimes resists what it receives. These three artists play deliberately in that gap. They remind us that seeing is never purely optical. It is also psychological, shaped by expectation, memory, trust and doubt.
Articles
Chow Chun Fai 周俊輝 / Review / October 19, 2024
Rodel Tapaya 羅德爾·塔帕亞 / Review / May 20, 2021
Chen Danqing / Feature / June 21, 2019
Shen Ling / Review / April 10, 2019
Huang Yongping, Shen Yuan / Review / May 19, 2018
Wang Du / Review / January 15, 2017
Zhao Zhao / Review / September 30, 2016
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Tang Contemporary Art is a Hong Kong, Beijing and Bangkok-based art gallery, representing some leading key figures in Contemporary Chinese art. As one of the most critically driven exhibition spaces in Asia, Tang Contemporary Art is fully committed to promote local and international art, and encourage the dynamic exchange between artists and audiences.
Represented artists
Ai Weiwei, Liu Xiaodong, Wang Du, Guo Wei, Ling Jian, Peng Yu & Sun Yuan, Vasan Sitthiket, Preeyachanok Ketsuwan, Chatchai Suphin