TANC April 15 to May 21, 2011

TANC
April 15 to May 21

Tanc (1979) is a musician and a fine artist, he lives and works in Paris.

Biographical element

Painter, graphic designer, composer of electronic music, Tanc is a multipurpose  artist who joined the big family of graffiti ‘in 1996. Since then, his signature has been stamped on the walls of Paris, Marseille, Brussels, Amsterdam, Cairo, Shanghai, etc..

“The graffiti must travel to be seen,” he said. Influenced by the “old school” style of New York graffiti, he engage his artistic research on color, calligraphy, typography, large format and the value of the contours. his current approach, based on the feature and the brutality of the route, synthesises all the tags that cover the walls of our cities. The Art of Tanc leaves a electric vision, energy, vibration, without title, without definition, free.

The essential vibration for emotion

By focusing on rhythm, the color and the line and by exposing his art, Tanc emotions to a spectator and go to the point: the vibration of the sight and soul.

The Premier instinct to the research of classical pictorial

He signs his paintings Tanc as he signed the walls with  tags during his adolescence, from the beginning of the movement. This discipline is the first outlet of an instinctive need for expression: he appropriates the urban space, shouting his name to the city with force. But the immediacy creative soon gives way to a pictorial research accomplished.

Name to abstraction: the revelation of the essential

His earliest paintings on canvas are a signature fondue in a bottom monochrome. Already, tone on tone on a deep material, irregular and  almost mineral, the name begins to fade. Soon, the letters disappear and Tanc engages in a formal abstract research. By focusing his work on the line and color, he renews the classic pictorial research by confronting it with the liveliness of the first street art: a balance of action, perfection of gesture, accepting the hazard and the expression of a strong singularity.

The baring of emotion

In his latest compositions, though abstract and deliberately minimalist and refined, he portrays himself by revealing his actions, his personality, and letting his emotions show through and his history through his techniques. This exposure  inspires also his installation, especially in situations where he places his works among his personal effects when he uses his tools or even as material as to bring the viewer into the heart of his intimacy and his creation process.
Above all, his works are striking in their intensity, musicality and the vibration of light and matter. The action, the energy and the emotion of the artist affect the viewer in the most sensual, intimate and immediate.

Exhibitions

For Tanc, working in a gallery is an opportunity to expose his passionate connection to the tag and  the electronic music. Coming from the graffiti movement, the artist speaks out on the walls of Paris. Since then he has continued to pursue his search for the line, from the gesture. With variations, the visitor will be surrounded by white canvases painted with black spray.

Tanc depends on the frequency of our heartbeat, with a minimal composition. In the tradition of the New York School of the 1960s, Tanc leaves to the viewer the freedom to immerse himself in his “music” repeating the gesture sound siren leads to the accompanies of the solitary meditation of the spectator.

Biography (selection)

2011
- Solo show “TANC” – David Bloch Gallery – Marrakech / Maroc
- Group show “Hall the fame part 2″ – David Bloch Gallery – Marrakech / Maroc
- Group show “Urban Activity” – Centre culturel Jean-Cocteau – Les Lilas / France
- Contemporary Art Fair “Indian Art Summit” – New Delhi / India
- Group show “L’ATLAS vs TANC” – Lebenson Gallery – Paris / France
- Group show “L’ATLAS vs TANC” – Alliance Française – New Delhi / Inde

2010
- Group show “The chamooo theory” – David Bloch Gallery – Marrakech / Maroc
- Group show “Hall the fame” – David Bloch Gallery – Marrakech / Maroc
- Contemporary Art Fair “cutlog” – Paris / France
- Solo show “Time lines” – New Square Gallery – Lille / France
- Contemporary Art Fair “Marrakech Art Fair” – Marrakech / Maroc
- Live Performance “Un été dans la ville ” – Place du Forum – Reims / France
- Group show “Nervousness” – Galerie G – Paris / France
- Contemporary Art Fair “Scope Basel” – Bâle / Suisse
- Group show “Kiss the city” – the Skalitzers Gallery – Berlin / Allemagne
- Contemporary Art Fair “Stroke.01 Urban” – Munich / Allemagne
- Group show “Strates” – Maison des Arts – Créteil / France
- Group show – Galerie G – 23 rue des Lilas – Paris / France
- Group show “Vao & Friends” – Espace Beaurepaire – Paris / France

2009
- Collective performance “Akrylonumerik” – Fondation Cartier – Paris / France
- Contemporary Art Fair “Stroke.01 Urban” – Munich / Allemagne
- Group show “Etats des lieux” – Agnès b : Galerie du jour – Paris / France
- Solo show “TANC” – Espace Beaurepaire – Paris / France
- Group show “T.A.G – collection Gallizia” – Grand Palais – Paris / France
- Group show “Reload” – Galerie Celal – 45, rue Saint-Honoré – Paris / France

2008
- Group show “Lay down the reality” – Galerie Moretti et Moretti – Paris / France
- Solo show – Studio 55 – Paris / France
- Group show “Les 40 ans de Dinh Van” – Mini Palais – Paris / France

2007
- Group show – Studio 55 – Paris
- Contemporary Art Fair “Les artistes casset la baraque” – Paris / France
- Group show “Shangaï Cube” – Shanghaï / Chine
- Solo show “16issant” – Galerie Stua – Paris / France

2006
- Group show “The content of my head is visible” – Espace Beaurepaire – Paris / France
- Group show “Intersections” – Le Boaz – Bruxelles / Belgique
- Group show “Aux arts citoyens, la révolution par l’image” – Espace Blancs Manteaux – Paris / France
- Group show “My street my city” – Amsterdam / Pays-Bas
- Group show “TNT” – Galerie Chappe – 4, rue André Barsacq – Paris / France