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Gana Art is pleased to present LE TEMPS, a solo exhibition by An Zongde(b. 1957) whose artistic experiments break down the boundaries of diverse media to capture the traces of change and time. With the effects of natural processes of weathering and oxidation over the years, his work is a trace of how sunlight, wind, and rain deliver universal truths through everyday objects. His latest solo exhibition will revisit the current outcome of his renowned Le temps series which has been ongoing since the 1990s. The show will unveil An鈥檚 artistic world full of existential questions and his 鈥榬eality鈥� that transcends the boundaries of past, present, and future.
Like the 鈥楲e temps鈥� in the titles of his artworks, which means 鈥渢ime鈥� in French, An鈥檚 artistic language is built through the passage of time and the randomness of waiting. To quote his own notes, 鈥淭here is no such thing as a fixed image in the continuity of time, and the audience is only witnessing the accumulation of time over many years as an image of that specific moment.鈥� But far from solely implying nihilism that all beings will disappear, Le temps reveals An鈥檚 approach that there is a harmony and cycle that forms a new relationship within the continuity of time. Revealing the lapse of natural order and time as it is, this exhibition presents the viewer with a poetic and continuous explorations, interpreting ordinary objects in ways that implies there is no 鈥榚ternal鈥� value or form to be obsessed with.