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Jo-ey Tang & Thomas Fougeirol
Jo-ey Tang (b. 1978, Hong Kong, CN) is a Hong Kong-born American artist, curator, and writer living and working between Paris, France, and Columbus, Ohio. For the past decade, Tang has attuned to the conditions of his life, its constraints and limits of energy-time, as a person, and in the ecology in the field of art, as curator of art institutions, writer, and communicator with artists, to shape his non-studio and non-practicing art practice. With an ethos of non-output, Tang only generates artworks on the occasion of invitations, where concretion from past exhibitions are often dragged into the present as a kind of ephemeral anti-ephemerality. He insistently destabilizes the status of artworks and the status of documentation, as a moving target that could take the forms of photography, language, and objects. For example, photographic works might be generated by using sculptural elements or documentation from previous exhibitions, only to be broken apart into disparate images and works, and to be built up again to generate new iterations. The movement between conflict and freedom – whose and which work, what forms does it takes, and how - is ongoing and not meant to be resolvable.
Thomas Fougeirol (b. 1965, Paris, FR) is a French artist living and work between Paris, France, and New York. Fougeirol applies layers of gesso and oil paint on canvases, which takes months to dry, and on and into them he throws debris, trash, and assorted objects collected from the streets of New York, where the artist keeps a studio. Dried-up sedimentation of paint-cakes lodged in the bottom of the buckets are employed as both mark-making devices and self-referential paint-object. These deposits are re-deposited on and into the fresh layers of still-drying canvases. Dead paint meets fresh paint. Sometimes these paintings register gravitational pull, and sometimes they trick the eye into pulling them back up. They operate across multiple coordinates, pivoting between flatness and depth, between what they look like and what they might be.
Jo-ey Tang & Thomas Fougeirol, Dust. The Plates of the Present, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR, October 21, 2020 - March 8, 2021
Jo-ey Tang & Thomas Fougeirol, Dust. The Plates of the Present, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR, October 21, 2020 - March 8, 2021
Jo-ey Tang & Thomas Fougeirol, Dust. The Plates of the Present, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR, October 21, 2020 - March 8, 2021
Jo-ey Tang & Thomas Fougeirol, Animot, Instillation View at Lyles & King, New York, NY, February 16 - March 22, 2020
Jo-ey Tang & Thomas Fougeirol, Animot, Instillation View at Lyles & King, New York, NY, February 16 - March 22, 2020
Jo-ey Tang & Thomas Fougeirol, Animot, Instillation View at Lyles & King, New York, NY, February 16 - March 22, 2020
Jo-ey Tang, Black door code 31A5 à gauche puis 2ème étage tout droit à gauche, Installation view at Galerie Joseph Tang (two-person exhibition with Carlos Reyes), Paris, FR, November 20 - December 10, 2016
Jo-ey Tang, Like an Intruder, the Speaker Removes his Cap, Installation View at Galerie Joseph Tang (solo exhibition), Paris, FR, April 17 - June 7, 2014
Jo-ey Tang, Documents from Like An Intruder, The Speaker Removes His Cap, 2014, Cigarette butts on adhesive on wood panels and plexi frames, 68.90 x 23.62 in / 175 x 60 cm
Jo-ey Tang, Like an Intruder, the Speaker Removes his Cap, Walking In The Air With His Hands On The Ground, Breathing Without Returns, Installation View at Le Komplot, Brussels, BE, (solo exhibition), April 22 - May 13, 2017
Jo-ey Tang, Document from Like An Intruder, The Speaker Removes His Cap, Patch 1.1, 2015, Adhesive plastic, cigarette butts, butterfly pea flower tea, mounted on aluminum and wood, 68.90 x 23.62 inches
Thomas Fougeirol, OP’S, Installation View at Praz-Delavallade, Paris, FR, February 13 - March 26, 2016
Thomas Fougeirol, Black Sun, Installation View at Praz-Delavallade, Paris, FR, April 2 - May 7, 2011
Thomas Fougeirol, Skin Picture, 2015, Oil on canvas, 16 x 12 inches
Thomas Fougeirol, Skin Picture, 2015, Oil on canvas, 16 x 12 inches
Thomas Fougeirol, Rain Picture, 2014, Oil on canvas, 16 x 12 inches
Thomas Fougeirol, Untitled, 2015, Bleach on linen, 77 x 59 inches
Thomas Fougeirol, Rain Picture, 2016, Oil on canvas, 16 x 12 inches
Thomas Fougeirol, Jo-ey Tang, Harold Edgerton, Bullet Through Glass, Installation View at Lyles & King, New York, NY, March 25 - April 30, 2017
Thomas Fougeirol, Jo-ey Tang, Harold Edgerton, Bullet Through Glass, Installation View at Lyles & King, New York, NY, March 25 - April 30, 2017
Thomas Fougeirol, Jo-ey Tang, Harold Edgerton, Bullet Through Glass, Installation View at Lyles & King, New York, NY, March 25 - April 30, 2017
Thomas Fougeirol, Jo-ey Tang, Harold Edgerton, Bullet Through Glass, Installation View at Lyles & King, New York, NY, March 25 - April 30, 2017
Thomas Fougeirol, Jo-ey Tang, Harold Edgerton, Bullet Through Glass, Installation View at Lyles & King, New York, NY, March 25 - April 30, 2017
Thomas Fougeirol, Jo-ey Tang, Harold Edgerton, Bullet Through Glass, Installation View at Lyles & King, New York, NY, March 25 - April 30, 2017
Jo-ey Tang, Quickly Card The Cutting, 2017, (detail)
Jo-ey Tang, Bullet Through Glass, Milk Finds Its Form..., 2017, Plexiglass rod, ink on Japanese Sumi-e paper, and screws, 65.6 x 0.5 x 0.5 inches
Harold Edgerton, Bullet Through Glass, 1962, Gelatin silver print, 20 x 16 inches, Artist's Proof, Jo-ey Tang, Container For Bullet Through Glass, 2017, Plexiglass box, macadamia milk, 17 x 21 x 10 inches
Harold Edgerton, Bullet Through Glass, 1962 (alternate view)
Thomas Fougeirol, Bullet Through Glass, Installation View at Lyles & King, New York, NY, March 25 - April 30, 2017