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Po Po: Ascending Primeval Codes
Ames Yavuz is proud to present Ascending Primeval Codes, Myanmar-artist Po Po鈥檚 third solo exhibition with the gallery.
A landmark figure in the history of art in Asia, Po Po is a visionary artist who brought something truly new in concept and execution to an isolated country鈥檚 latent art scene in the 1980s. Resisting easy categorisation and definition, Po Po has charted and composed his own formalistic language, deeply rooted in Buddhist precepts and developed in a culture that has faced over six decades of political struggle, isolation and censorship.
Ascending Primeval Codes continues the artist鈥檚 complex study and playful exploration of semiotics, which first began in the 1970s. The exhibition 鈥� first conceptualised in 1988 and realised over the past three decades 鈥� presents a collection of mixed media paintings that takes cue from signs, symbols and ancient written language that the artist has reconstructed and deconstructed.
Po Po鈥檚 extensive research spans across ancient stone inscriptions from Pyu, Bagan, Inwa and Pinya (from the 3rd to 13th centuries) to today, mapping out the extensive topographic breadth of communication signs and symbols of ancient civilisations to contemporary public signage. A continuation of his previous 2020 exhibition, Primeval Codes, he distils primordial and fundamental tenets of life 鈥� its desires, power, spiritualities 鈥� into powerful abstractions of his mixed media paintings rendered in rich tones of red and black.
Ames Yavuz is proud to present Ascending Primeval Codes, Myanmar-artist Po Po鈥檚 third solo exhibition with the gallery.
A landmark figure in the history of art in Asia, Po Po is a visionary artist who brought something truly new in concept and execution to an isolated country鈥檚 latent art scene in the 1980s. Resisting easy categorisation and definition, Po Po has charted and composed his own formalistic language, deeply rooted in Buddhist precepts and developed in a culture that has faced over six decades of political struggle, isolation and censorship.
Ascending Primeval Codes continues the artist鈥檚 complex study and playful exploration of semiotics, which first began in the 1970s. The exhibition 鈥� first conceptualised in 1988 and realised over the past three decades 鈥� presents a collection of mixed media paintings that takes cue from signs, symbols and ancient written language that the artist has reconstructed and deconstructed.
Po Po鈥檚 extensive research spans across ancient stone inscriptions from Pyu, Bagan, Inwa and Pinya (from the 3rd to 13th centuries) to today, mapping out the extensive topographic breadth of communication signs and symbols of ancient civilisations to contemporary public signage. A continuation of his previous 2020 exhibition, Primeval Codes, he distils primordial and fundamental tenets of life 鈥� its desires, power, spiritualities 鈥� into powerful abstractions of his mixed media paintings rendered in rich tones of red and black.
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