Michael Tedja
dal 31/1/2013 al 25/5/2013
Segnalato da
31/1/2013
Michael Tedja
Cobra Museum, Amstelveen
Snake. The exhibition features a selection from his work created over a ten-year period and comprising more than 1500 drawings and paintings on paper and canvas. Snake narrates a layered story in which everyday affairs go hand in hand with geopolitical and historically charged subjects.
The Cobra Museum of Modern Art is presenting SNAKE by Michael Tedja (1971, Rotterdam). Michael Tedja is showing a selection from his work created over a ten-year period and comprising more than 1500 drawings and paintings on paper and canvas. Tedja’s energy is boundless and his vision sharp. He works with materials, colours and words in concentrated fashion. The roughly 250 works selected for SNAKE, some intimately small and some monumental in size, incorporate an extremely wide range of objects, among them even a bike.
Tedja’s entirely individual universe has come to fruition over the past ten years inside a warehouse near Amsterdam. The fictional character SNAKE plays a key role in the series. SNAKE narrates a layered story in which everyday affairs go hand in hand with geopolitical and historically charged subjects. Tedja himself regularly comments on such subjects on internet forums, where he deals with issues like interpreting the links between seemingly unconnected series of figures — something that also finds expression in his visual work. Tedja is also a writer. A number of years ago he wrote an experimental novel in which he unfolds his imaginative universe of imagery. In short: for Tedja, nothing is too small to merit attention, and nothing is too big to have an opinion about.
The Cobra Museum of Modern Art approaches the legacy of the Cobra movement as a dynamic entity to be constantly considered in critical terms and expounded upon. The Cobra Contemporary program shows contemporary art in which the core values of Cobra can be identified, whether consciously or subconsciously. It is precisely here that the SNAKE universe finds its place.
SNAKE brings the public into contact with Tedja’s energy and crystallised concepts. Tedja’s use of words and images within a single surface, his engagement with the world as conveyed in his work, and the way in which his expressionist visual language is captured in a rigorous and conceptual framework of thought, are all elements that enjoy full play within the context of the Cobra Museum. In one of his new series of works, Tedja criticises the manner of displaying and appropriating ethnographic objects in the Western cultural world. This demonstrates a certain kinship, certainly in view of the ‘versatile primitivism’ of the Cobra movement. Moreover, it constitutes an astute observation on contemporary discussions.
Image: Green snake. Mixed media on paper, (h 29 x w 21 cm), 2012
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