NeoFolk – South East Asian Contemporary Art Exhibition

For a long time throughout history, Asia and it’s culture has been an inspiration on artists and their  artworks. Neofolk is a contemporary art exhibition organised by Damien Brachet , Clear Editions Japan along with Kult magazine to showcase Asian influenced art works. This exhibition held in Cutlog Foire d’Art Contemporain, France includes many talented artist from Hong Kong, China, Indonesia, Taiwan, Philippines and Singapore. From Singapore is our very talented Kuanth and Sokkuan Tye. See their dedication to perfection and crafting in this unique exhibition.

Sokkuan Tye

” Kuih-muih” , 2011

Hanging Installation, Felt, Polyester and Acrylic.

5kg, 70cm X 70cm X 100cm

Kuanth

杜十娘 Du ShiNiang (Lady No.10), 2011

Xin Hua Puppet Show Installation, Wood and acrylic, animated with internal engine.

25kg, 150cm X 90cm X 40cm

Below are more details to the exhibition :

NeoFolk Paris

South East Asian contemporary art exhibition, October 19-23, 2011

Cutlog Foire d’Art Contemporain
Bourse de Commerce de Paris
2 rue de Viarmes 75001 Paris Paris, France

www.cutlog.org/

Throughout South East Asia since the end of the XXth century, artists have been rediscovering their roots and traditional crafts, by reinterpreting their mixed and painful pasts.

They have grown out of State-condoned folk-art and tourist-priced exoticism, and back from the counter-culture distraction of self-denying, copycat Western conceptualism. Entrenched in soul-searching identity crisis, pioneers, pillars and heralds of the local scenes have dug up their forefathers’ hand-woven, paper-cut, hand-dyed, studded, pierced, cursed and blessed techniques, which contemporary art used to look down upon as arts and crafts.

Asia is reborn of gift-shop mentalities and ridding of self-loathe, cultivating local flavours and tastes for indigenous tribal aesthetics, from ancient script and tattoos, to music, graphic design, fashion and contemporary art. Crews of grunge-skater-nerd, ghetto-punk and retro-rockabilly artists are digging back into their drawers and closets. Their art is profoundly idiosyncratic, raw in discourse, sophisticated in delivery.

It is expressionist figurative, from mutant tribalism from Taiwan and the Philippines, to street animism and folk esoterism from Indonesia, brand-new retro pop from Singapore, and graffiti opera from Hong Kong.

This is Neo Folk.

Syan aka MC Yan (Graffiti art – Hong Kong), Kuanth (Graphics and installation art – Singapore/Malaysia), Samuel Indratma (Painter, sculptor – Yogjakarta), Darbotz (Graffiti artist – Jakarta), Jam Wu 吳耿禎 (Poet, photographer, paper-cut artist – Taipei), I Made Palguna (Painter – Yogjakarta), Sokkuan (Illustrations, installations – Singapore/Malaysia), redslim08 (Visual artist – Philippines).

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