Michael Tedja

Name: Michael Tedja
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Michael Tedja's work combines draftsmanship, painting, literature, and installations to create a flamboyant and visually playful oeuvre. Inspired by the post-WWII CoBrA art movement, his art eschews folkloric and anti-intellectual elements, instead offering a sophisticated interplay of abstract and figurative imagery. Tedja's pieces are expressive and linguistic, rich with references and autobiographical content. This monograph features large-scale paintings, the immersive Hypersubjective installation, and The Color Guide Series, where commercial paper stock with exposed colour bars is transformed by textured paint, crayon, and chalk. By continuously recycling images, Tedja interrogates how meaning shifts within the globalised visual landscape.
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Michael Tedja

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This book will engage readers interested in contemporary art, abstract expressionism, and innovative visual culture. It suits those drawn to art movements like CoBrA and themes exploring globalisation and the evolving interpretation of imagery.

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Drawing on draftsmanship, painting, literature, and installations, Michael Tedja's oeuvre erupts into a flamboyant and visually playful whole. His boisterous storms of imagery recall the CoBrA movement of artists from Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam who briefly banded together after World War II. Aiming to banish bourgeois rituals as well as theorising around avant-garde art, they embraced expressionist spontaneity, an unrestrained use of vivid colours, folkloric elements, handwriting, and graffiti.

But Michael Tedja has taken out the folkloric and anti-intellectual; his painting is a kind of IQ test. With abstract and figurative visual vocabulary complementing each other, Tedja's imagery is expressive and linguistic, full of references and autobiographical elements. This monograph encompasses large-scale paintings, his overwhelming installation of large drawings Hypersubjective, as well as The Color Guide Series. Here, Tedja deploys textured paint, crayon, and chalk on commercial paper stock—the colour bars printed along the paper's edge are left exposed—turning mass-produced standard into something decidedly unique.

Yet by constantly recycling and repurposing images, Tedja explores the alterability of meaning within the visual context of globalisation.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783775752299

Publisher: Hatje Cantz

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 16 June 2022

Country: Germany

Imprint: Hatje Cantz

Illustration: 320 Illustrations

Contributors:

Text by Christopher Knight
Text by Dieter Roelstraete
Text by Gean Moreno
Text by Jody Zellen
Text by Carlson Hatton
Text by Edward Goldman
Text by Mario Vasquez
Text by Eric Minh Swenson
Text by Moshekwa Langa

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 170.0mm

Height: 240.0mm

Weight: 1600g

Pages: 400

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

MICHAEL TEDJA (*1971, Rotterdam) is a leading Dutch contemporary artist. He studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam, where he also lives today. He had solo exhibitions at the Cobra Museum for Modern Art, Centraal Museum Utrecht, Locust Projects in Miami, the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, as well as numerous international group exhibitions.