The Taiwanese artist Huang Yao-Tang will present his most recent paintings in this exhibition.
Some of them are specially selected for Art Base to coincide the Taiwan edition.
Unlike his previous series which deals mostly with Nature, Huang's new series reflects upon the visual impact of our urban centers.
Trained as an architect and having worked extensively in public housing, Huang has first-hand knowledge of urban decay and the painful process of rehabilitation.
After living in various parts of central Brussels in the past 30 years, he moved to the Marolles in 2005 and sees the graffiti in the neighborhood as early signs of urban decay rather than a street art-form ready to be glamorized.
In his paintings, he uses strong colors, stenciled letters, graffiti-like hand-writings on a background of multi-layered old wall to evoke the fragmented facets of our urban space.
There is without doubt a beauty in this organized chaos as he invites us to see. But this is a reminder of the discomfort in our day-to-day urban survival.
In the same show he introduces the landscape related to Taiwan's aboriginal tribes: Taroko, Rukai, etc. to celebrate the island's multi-cultured society.

P.S. The paintings on the invitation are called 'Taroko": an area in eastern Taiwan inhabited by the Taiya tribe.

http://www.huangyaotang.eu/

13/10/11-10/11/11
Open Fri-Sat-Sun 14-18h
Vernissage 13/10 18h

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