ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Press Kit
TANK Shanghai is pleased to present “Light”, Thomas Lerooy’s solo exhibition. The exhibition opens on September 21, 2024 and runs through October 27,2024.
The arched project space of TANK, with its industrial architectural features, serves as the setting for Thomas Lerooy’s exhibition on the theme of “Light”. Seven small paintings are rendered in vibrant colors and delicate brushstrokes. These works are placed within seven color circles – six in color and one in white – each symbolizing different facets of light. Their various combinations form two different color models commonly used in contemporary society – RGB and CMYK, representing digital screens and print respectively. Although it is impossible to fully capture or reproduce light, its manifestation – color – is constantly being mixed, expressed and recreated by humans, yet the circles remain distinct, like spotlights illuminating a wall.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Thomas Lerooy
Thomas Lerooy, born in Roeselare in 1981, now lives and works in Brussels.
The oeuvre of Thomas Lerooy is characterized by an inherent duality: it attracts and repels at the same time, it is recognizable yet alienating, it is humorous and serious, intimate as well as grotesque. Whether Lerooy draws, sculpts or paints, he is always searching for the limits of his medium or his subject. His enigmatic works challenge the logic of the viewer and leave the interpretation to their imagination. He uses recognizable motifs that he maniplates and thus undermines. He investigates and breaks through the codes of painting, which manifests itself in a tension between abstraction and figuration, sharpness and haze, structure and smoothness. They are light-hearted and charged at the same time, and thus put themselves and the reality from which they arise into perspective.
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