From March to May this year, Cyrus Tang will be undertaking the Nawat Fes Residency in Morocco. The program seeks to cultivate understanding across cultures through the exchange of ideas, and allows artists from around the world.
Cyrus notes, "I am honoured to be one of eight awardees from among 133 applicants from 41 countries. Nawat Fes is the fully funded residency program of the American Language Center Fes / Arabic Language Institute in Fez, a member of the American Cultural Association (ACA). I would also like to thank City of Melbourne Quick Response Arts Grants, who also contributed funding to this residency."
CYRUS TANG & JOHN YOUNG Feature in 'Assembly' at ANU
Opening tonight! 🥂 CYRUS TANG and JOHN YOUNG are part of a must-see group exhibition called 'Assembly' at The Australian Centre on China in the World (CIW) at ANU from 5:30–7:15pm.
Curated by Dr Olivier Krischer, 'Assembly' brings together eight Hong Kong-born artists from different generations of the diaspora. Amid the current wave of migration, this exhibition explores the act of ‘making sense’ of layers and fragments, of memories and stories, told or untold. 'Assembly' embraces the resonance and dissonance between the diverse creative practices of these artists, questioning readymade notions of diasporic identity.
IMAGE: Cyrus Tang, In memory’s eye, we travel…, 2016, 3 channel HD video, 8.38 min loop
CYRUS TANG named as a finalist in the Omnia Art Prize
IMAGE: CYRUS TANG, Tree Study – 5 (print only), 2022, pigment print, edition of 5, 100 x 67.5 cm
CYRUS TANG's stunning work, 'Tree Study 5', was selected as a finalist in the Omnia Art Prize.
Sunday and Monday, 21-22 May are the last two days to see the Omnia. Since its beginnings in 1971, the event has grown in significance and popularity to become one of Australia’s premier art awards and exhibitions.
CYRUS TANG Artist Talk NGV Melbourne Now
ARTIST'S TALK
For the opening weekend of Melbourne Now, CYRUS TANG will be in conversation with Susan van Wyk, Senior Curator of Photography, at the National Gallery of Victoria. Join Tang as she discusses her recent body of work 'Tree Studies'.
FREE TALK. All welcome: Sun 26 Mar, 11.45am – 12.15 pm, Exhibition Space, Level 2. See the @ngvmelbourne website for more details.
CYRUS TANG selected for Melbourne Now 2023
ARC ONE is delighted to announce that Cyrus Tang has been selected by the National Gallery of Victoria for 'Melbourne Now' 2023. Congratulations Cyrus!
Celebrating new and ambitious local art and design, 'Melbourne Now' will cross a range of contemporary disciplines including fashion and jewellery, painting, sculpture, architecture, ceramics, video, performance, printmaking and publishing.
The inaugural 2013 exhibition was an unprecedented survey of some of the most exciting local contemporary practitioners. Ten years on, Melbourne Now 2023 will again highlight the latest art, architecture, design, and cultural practice shaping Melbourne.
Bold in scale, Melbourne Now will be displayed throughout all levels of The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, including permanent collection galleries, showcasing new works and commissions by emerging, mid-career and senior practitioners as well as local collectives.
'Melbourne Now' will run from 24 March - 20 August 2023 at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Fed Square
Opening of the BOWNESS PRIZE Exhibition
JANET LAURENCE, HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT, CYRUS TANG and LYDIA WEGNER feature in this years Bowness Prize exhibition.
Over the last 17 years, the William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize has emerged as an important annual survey of contemporary photographic practice in Australia and one of the most prestigious prizes in the country.
Available to view at The Monash Gallery of Art until November 13.
Installation images courtesy of Monash Gallery of Art, photographed by Andrew Curtis.
CYRUS TANG in the Wyndham Art Prize
CYRUS TANG, 'Burning Ritual', 2021, Pigment print on cotton rag, 90 x 90cm.
Selected out of 560 artwork entries, CYRUS TANG has been named as a finalist in the 2022 Wyndham Art Prize with her work 'Burning Ritual'.
Featuring 84 shortlisted works the exhibition will run from 2 June - 7 August 2022 at Wyndham Art Gallery, with winners announced at the opening event 6:30 - 8:30pm June 2, 2022.
CYRUS TANG at Linden New Art for PHOTO 2022
IMAGE: Cyrus Tang, 'Tree Study 2’ [detail], 2020-21, pigment print on cotton rag, Edition 5+2AP, 80 x 80cm.
CYRUS TANG's exhibition,'Time Fell Asleep in the Evening Rain’, opened on Friday 11 March at Linden New Art as part of PHOTO 2022.
Presenting a new series of photographic works and light boxes, Tang continues her exploration of time and memory in the context of the pandemic in this exhibition.
‘Time Fell Asleep in the Evening Rain’ continues until 5 June.
CYRUS TANG SOLO SHOW AT INCINERATOR GALLERY
CYRUS TANG’s new solo show Sky Orchestra is now open at Incinerator Gallery.
Sky Orchestra is a project exploring Confucian values of filial piety through the lens of Chinese history and pop culture, and how it relates to the artist’s experience within a Western context. Through Sky Orchestra, Tang delves into the history and legacy of a poem by a well-known Chinese poet Su Shi of the Song Dynasty, whose words evoke the joys and sorrows of human existence from a Buddhist worldview.
Additionally, this project explores the power of music, which was believed to have great moral powers in ancient China. For Sky Orchestra, Tang revisits childhood memories and Confucian thought, with the resultant exhibition conveying themes of loss and renewal.
The exhibition will continue until 1 August.
CYRUS TANG'S WORK SUBJECT OF ARTICLE ON COBO SOCIAL
Diego Ramirez has penned an insightful reflection on CYRUS TANG’s artwork ‘Power Cables’, a finalist exhibition of the @sovereignasianartprize. Published on @cobosocial, Ramirez writes:
“[Cyrus Tang’s] migratory experience inspires much of her practice, where memory is a ruin that she reconstructs in labour intensive processes. Her body of work ‘Remember me when the sun goes down’ (2020) looks at the empty streets of Vermont and the city of Melbourne area during lockdown as an elegy for the future, documenting the social wreckage of COVID-19.
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Cyrus Tang, Remember me when the sun goes down: Power Cables [detail], 2020, archival pigment print, 90 x 90 cm.
These are the optical traces that collectively form the impression of a blurry memory, a strategy that characterises Tang’ oeuvre, where mental images seem to find form on paper.
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By photographing locations for extended periods of time, then compositing all images into a single frame…the mundane becomes fantastical.”
Read the full article here >
CYRUS TANG SHORTLISTED FOR SOVEREIGN ART PRIZE
Cyrus Tang, Remember me when the sun goes down: Power Cables, 2020, archival pigment print, 90 x 90 cm.
Congratulations Cyrus Tang! Her work Remember me when the sun goes down: Power Cables is shortlisted for the Sovereign Art Prize.
The Sovereign Asian Art Prize was launched in 2003 to increase the international exposure of artists in the region, whilst raising funds for programmes that support disadvantaged children using expressive arts. Held annually, The Prize is now recognised as the most established and prestigious annual art award in Asia-Pacific.
In the wake of the past year, Tang wishes to memorialise images that address our collective experiences, anxieties, and hopes, allowing us space to remember and recover. Having had a renewed opportunity to explore her landscape, Tang created 'Remembering me when the sun goes down - Power Cables'. The artist, drawn to the geometrical composition of the sky, took daily photos of the power cables. She then collated the images, creating composite, ethereal layers. At the centre point of convergence, the image condenses and vibrates, as if to confirm a moment of real existence.
The finalists’ artworks will be presented to the public at 9 Queen’s Road Central, Central, Hong Kong from 5 – 16 May 2021. The artworks will then be exhibited at Art Central at Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre from 20 – 23 May 2021.
More information >
TEN CUBE RELEASES LANDMARK PUBLICATION
Ten Cubed has released a publication to celebrate their tenth anniversary and the conclusion of their project - 2010 - 2020: TEN CUBED CONCEPT, COLLECTION, GALLERY.
Ten Cubed is an art experiment begun in 2010 whereby an evolving top ten contemporary artists were collected in depth. Their collection includes ARC ONE artists PAT BRASSINGTON & CYRUS TANG.
This beautifully designed book records various stages of their wonderful journey - from conception, building the gallery, acquiring the collection to exhibiting the works of the many artists they are proud to have supported.
Purchase your copy here!
HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT, CYRUS TANG & ANNE ZAHALKA SHORTLISTED FOR BOWNESS PRIZE
Congratulations to ARC ONE artists HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT, CYRUS TANG and ANNE ZAHALKA who are all finalists in this year’s Bowness Photography Prize!
This year the MGA Foundation is committed to ensuring a physical as well as a virtual exhibition of the Bowness Prize finalists, and has extended the exhibition period over summer.
The shortlisted photographs will be exhibited from 31 October 2020 until 7 February 2021, with the prize announcements scheduled for January 2021!
CYRUS TANG WINS INCINERATOR ART AWARD
CYRUS TANG is one of the winners of The Incinerator Art Award 2020 with her video work I wish…
The Incinerator Art Award (IAA) is Incinerator Gallery’s annual art award and exhibition celebrating contemporary arts practices that are socially engaged, environmentally aware, and seek to enrich community through dynamic, creative practice.
![Cyrus Tang, I wish…[still], 2019, 2 channel video projection.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54012345e4b0f72d40b6c44e/1596680646731-84V966YDXEGEVHUDLQ7K/CYRUS+TANG-I+wish.jpeg)
Cyrus Tang, I wish…[still], 2019, 2 channel video projection.
Speaking of her selected work, Tang says, “In Chinese culture, the wishing tree is identified as possessing a special religious or spiritual value. The worshippers write their wishes on paper and throw it to the wishing tree. Since March 2019, there have been a series of protests in Hong Kong over the extradition bill which relates to human rights and rule of law protections. For the first time in Hong Kong history, riot police used tear gas and smoke bombs to beat back protesters. The fog that drifts through this scenery is not a romantic mist but a toxic cloud of tear gas, drifting in from recent scenes of demonstration against the extradition bill in Hong Kong. Will the “god” take notice of these wishes of the Hong Kong citizens and the hope behind them?”
Visit the finalist exhibition online HERE >
Cyrus’ prize includes a solo exhibition at Incinerator Gallery in 2021 - stay tuned for these details!
CYRUS TANG WINS MCCLELLAND SMALL SCULPTURE AWARD
A huge congratulations to CYRUS TANG who has won the inaugural McClelland National Small Sculpture Award!
Tang is one of four winners chosen by the judges from 320 submissions. Her work The Modern World Encyclopaedia Vol 2 (2017) presents the partially cremated pages of a 1936 encyclopaedia alongside its hardbound cover. The sculpture refers to collective cultural knowledge and its fragility.
McClelland Gallery established this new award as a way of supporting artists in the current moment. Its prescriptions encourage sculptural concepts suitable for a domestic scale, no more than 50cm at the largest dimension. “We believe collectors are increasingly interested in including three-dimensional artwork in their collections, and we are pleased to offer the works of all 44 finalists for sale via a digital catalogue,” said McClelland Sculpture Park+Gallery Director, Lisa Byrne.
Be sure to check out the digital catalogue HERE.
Contact ARC ONE Gallery for more information about acquiring this work!
Cyrus Tang, The Modern World Encyclopaedia Vol 2, 2017, cremated book ashes, book cover and acrylic case, 40 x 40 x 45cm
CYRUS TANG INTERVIEWED FOR ART GUIDE PODCAST
CYRUS TANG is interviewed on the latest episode of Faraway, so close, a podcast hosted by Tiarney Miekus of Art Guide dedicated to considering the anxieties and opportunities emerging in the arts in our new COVID-19 world.
In this third edition of the podcast, Tiarney asks: how do you think about the future at a time when the future feels so uncertain? Artists Cyrus Tang & Lucy McRae give their thoughts and feelings on where we are now, and where we’re headed next.
“In Eastern philosophy, loss is not really like a loss, it’s like a transformation from one state to another state. This is how I see it. Even though I deal with a lot of history and loss [in my work], I keep on thinking that it’s because of history that we can perceive the future,” says Cyrus. The artist moved to Australia in 2003, 2 months after the SARS outbreak devastated her family and friends in Hong Kong. She asks herself how the memory of that crisis and loss affects the present.
Cyrus’ new body of work seeks to capture & archive this present moment in Australia. ARC ONE will be launching an online exhibition of these works soon!
Listen to the podcast here >
Left: Cyrus Tang. Right: Lucy McRae, photograph by Ira Chernova.
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CYRUS TANG's solo exhibition Golden Hour, previously shown at ARC ONE in 2018, is being exhibited at Galerie Oasis in Bangkok.
Opening today, this exhibition comprises a suite of photographic works that continue Tang's project of paradoxically reconstructing and recording ephemeral mental images and sensations in permanent materials. The title is inspired by the multiple meanings of the term 'Golden Hour' - sometimes referring to the narrow margin of time for treating casualty patients in trauma yet also used by photographers to refer to a brief moment of time just before sunset or just after sunrise.
The exhibition continues until 12 January.
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Cyrus Tang, still from Remote Nation, 2008, standard definition video loop, 13.56 min
CYRUS TANG’s work Remote Nation is currently showing at MS.SUE as part of the exhibition EVERYTHING THAT EXISTS IN THE CURRENT.
The exhibition, part of the Due West Festival program, explores the emotional and social implications of moving between different states of being. When the flow of our existence is interrupted and relocated, the context shifts, and everything we knew then is no longer.
Tang’s video work Remote Nation shows a city made of clay gradually disintegrating underwater, thereby alluding to a fading sense of 'home'. The water, however, transforms the city into another state of existence. Tang says she is particularly moved by the residue left from the melted clay.
Curated by Nikki Lam, EVERYTHING THAT EXISTS IN THE CURRENT is installed at multiple sites in central Footscray.
GUO JIAN | CYRUS TANG | GUAN WEI | JOHN YOUNG
Not one, but four ARC ONE artists are included in the exhibition Between Two Worlds at Newcastle Art Gallery. GUO JIAN, CYRUS TANG, GUAN WEI & JOHN YOUNG are featured.
Between Two Worlds aims to promote the diversity of works of art being produced by Australian artists of Chinese heritage. The exhibition acknowledges the artists who have lived, worked and are connected to China and Australia through migration, major historical events and Australia’s agricultural and industrial developments.
On the opening Saturday, GUO JIAN will join a panel discussion that introduces the exhibition’s themes, along with curator Catherine Croll and fellow exhibiting artists Rowena Foong & Peter Gardiner.
This talk will run from 2 -3 pm on Saturday 16 November.
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Cyrus Tang, I wish..., 2019, 2 channel video projection.
CYRUS TANG is part of the group show The End/Future of History, open now at The Substation.
In this exhibition curated by Phuong Ngo, contemporary artists examine how rights are simultaneously upheld and violated by government. In an international system that has been dominated by Western ideology, a fundamental flaw exists with the administering of rights. It is a system where the guarantor of rights is almost always the key violator.
This exhibition explores Francis Fukuyama’s ideas on liberal democracies, their flaws and contradictions. It shows until 14 December. .