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November Issue 2007
Redux Contemporary Art Center in Charleston, SC, Features Works by Tattfoo Tan
For the second exhibition of the fall season, Redux Contemporary Art Center in Charleston, SC, proudly presents new work from New York-based artist Tattfoo Tan. The exhibit, Everyone Is An Artist, will be on view through Nov. 11, 2007.
Tan is a conceptual artist whose work crosses the boundaries of performance, installation and painting. For this exhibition at Redux the artist has proposed a series of guided instructions that actually allows the viewer to complete the work and thus the exhibition.
Everyone Is An Artist is a printed poster that is distributed free to demystify the art making process with step-by-step instructions, making art available, accessible and achievable. Once, understood the same technique can be applied to various media, freeing the mind to create with simple and unpretentious materials.
The project is set up as a group effort, creating a synergy toward a single goal, achieving comradely and enriching life. The project is a catalyst to invite art making at home with family and friends.
The DIY (do-it-yourself) concept changes our relationship to commercial products and our perspective on mass production. DIY has gained momentum largely as a result of our greatly enhanced access to tools and information. DIY also enables uniqueness in the things we own. It gives rise to a number of media outlets for sharing experience; the wealth of resources has become a self-sustaining treasure chest growing at an exponential rate.
This current project is roughly based on Joseph Beuys' famous slogan "Everyone Is an Artist" which was not meant to suggest that all people should or could be creators of traditional artworks. Rather, he meant that we should not see creativity as the special realm of artists, but that everyone should apply creative thinking in their own area of specialization. Beuys imagined that an expanded application of human creativity-and the broader definition of "art" that would follow would result in something he called "social sculpture." While the term encompassed many things for Beuys, it might broadly be defined as a conscious act of shaping, of bringing some aspect of the environment - whether the political system, the economy, or a classroom from a chaotic state into a state of form, or structure. Social sculpture should be accomplished cooperatively, creatively, and across disciplines.
These acts will be completed by the viewers of Everyone Is An Artist, at the Redux Contemporary Art Center.
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Gallery listings, call the center at 843/722-0697 or visit (www.reduxstudios.org).
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