All posts tagged: Tang Contemporary Art Hong Kong

Tang Contemporary Art Hong Kong Celebrating 10th Anniversary

Published by Artomity Magazine

Decade One: Chronolect /Dec 18, 2025 – Jan 31, 2026 / Jonas Burgert, Cai Lei, Heri Dono, Huang Yongping, Jigger Cruz, Leng Guangmin, Edgar Plans, Qin Qi, Wang Du, Xiyao Wang, Wu Yi, Yue Minjun, Yang Jiechang, Zhao Zhao, Zhu JinshiOpening: Thursday, Dec 18, 5pm – 7pmTang Contemporary Art Central10/F, H Queen’s80 Queen’s Road, CentralTuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pmT +852 2682 8289 Etsu Egami, Hao Zecheng, Yoon Hyup, Kitti Narod, Jade Ching-yuk Ng, Alexander Skats, August Vilella, Meguru Yamaguchi, Yu Xuan, Nishi YukariOpening: Thursday, Dec 18, 4pm – 6pmTang Contemporary Art Wong Chuk HangUnit 2003-0820/F, Landmark South39 Yip Kan Street, Wong Chuk HangTuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pmT +852 3703 9246 tangcontemporary.com Tang Contemporary Art is proud to announce to celebrate the tenth anniversary of our Hong Kong space, we are presenting a large-scale group exhibition Decade One: Chronolect. The exhibition’s title, Chronolect – a lexicon of time – captures the distinct artistic language developed over this inaugural decade. The exhibition aims to focus on the most precious gains in artistic practice—namely, “accumulation and growth”—connecting the iterative evolution of the artists’ works, the gallery’s and collectors’ explorations within the industry, and the …

Rodel Tapaya 羅德爾·塔帕亞

Published by Caroline Ha Thuc

Random Numbers, the new exhibition by Filipino artist Rodel Tapaya, depicts a chaotic, dense reality where a multitude of fragmented objects and living creatures entwine and decompose. Inspired by Filipino and Mexican mural painters, but also by surrealist artists, Tapaya draws a carnivalesque portrait of the Philippines and, beyond, of our contemporary societies driven by excesses and never-ending consumption. Born in 1980 in Montalban, in the Philippines’s Rizal province, Tapaya is known for his neo-traditional paintings inspired by Philippine mythology, folk tales and beliefs, which he converts into allegories for our times. Scrap Paintings, the artist’s new series of works, is a departure from this, instead focusing on the concept of disaggregation. The nine paintings presented at Tang Contemporary Art are based on relatively small collages from magazine cut-outs, mostly from the National Geographic, that the artist enlarges and turns into acrylic works on canvas. He uses different coloured whiteboard markers to erase some pigments from the original images, playing with their glossy surfaces and printing ink to obtain various textural effects. This primary material is thus …