{"product_id":"michael-tedja-9783775752299","title":"Michael Tedja","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on draftsmanship, painting, literature, and installations, \u003cem\u003eMichael Tedja\u003c\/em\u003e'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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut \u003cem\u003eMichael Tedja\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eHypersubjective\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as \u003cem\u003eThe Color Guide Series\u003c\/em\u003e. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYet by constantly recycling and repurposing images, Tedja explores the alterability of meaning within the visual context of globalisation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47455635472620,"sku":"9783775752299","price":142.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/61uwVUxyBML._SL1500.jpg?v=1774789466","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/michael-tedja-9783775752299","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}