For the first time in Europe, Galerie Jean-luc & Takako Richard exhibits YEK, a young artist born in Singapore in 1968 who lives and works in Las Vegas.
Since he was classified these recent years by the international art press among « Best of the 90’s », « The Best of the Op’art », and « The Top ten year », his art is very demanded and it’s a big opportunity for the European Collectors to discover his new paintings.
Presented in the recent book Vitamin P, new perspectives in painting, Yek revitalizes and reaffirms the visual power of Painting. Since 1998, he has concentrated on the square shape. His paintings aspire the viewer into an unlimited space. Yek succeeds in getting this quasi hypnotic effect by the density of color as an informal fog, by a curved canvas and by the convergence of lines focusing to the center of the painting. The result is an extraordinary visually powerful painting catching the viewer. He tends to move back and forth and sideways as if he feels a volumetric presence of the painting.
By using airbrush painting Yek makes us penetrate into a perfectly colored space. He is a master in adventurous color combinations. Although he is using neon colors, the fluorescent colors never seem garish but subtle and sweet. There is something magic in Yek’s use of colors, or is it his ability to catch a magic moment of a combination of colors ? Could it be related to living around the neon of Las Vegas seeing it everyday in clear desert light ?
We feel that Yek draws a line in front of this color space. This line follows a rhythm of manga and cartoon, all in curves and clear-cut lines. It penetrates on the third outer space of a picture and goes out intermittently by extending itself into an imaginary space out of the picture. It is a new contemporary calligraphy. The colors of these lines subtely vary according to the color space. This baroque line with its rhythm and shape suggests a space of dance.
Yek can be considered as a virtuoso master in his ability to give an ecstasic and dyonisac perceptual excitement with apparently so limited means : color, space, the rhythm of a line.
YEK, Glare
March 8 - April 23, 2003
Galerie Jean-Luc & Takako Richard
51-53, rue Saint-Louis en l’Ile
75004 PARIS
Previous exhibitions at this contemporary art gallery
Risa SATO, Risa Campaign, February 1 - February 26, 2003
Estelle ARTUS, Christophe AVELLA-BAGUR, Richard CONTE, Anne-Valérie GASC, Bernard GUELTON, Risa SATO, Yann TOMA, Christophe VIART, Qu'est-ce que l'Art domestique?, January 22 - 28, 2003
Kiyoshi NAKAGAMI, Recent paintings, November 30, 2002 - January 21, 2003
Christophe AVELLA-BAGUR, On the Edge (Paintings 1990-2002), October 5 - November 7, 2002
Next exhibitions at this contemporary aty gallery
Paul Henry RAMIREZ, Elevatious Transcendsualistic, April 26 - June 7, 2003
Hervé HEUZE, Paysages - Peintures récentes, June 14 - August 30, 2003
Carl FUDGE, September 6 - October 14, 2003
Adam ROSS, The City at Night Dreaming of Itself, October 18 - November 18, 2003
Stefan HOENERLOH, Cities made in Magrathea, November 22, 2003 - January 13, 2004
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