TANC

TANC (1979).

Tanc 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.

2010 | September 8 – 25
Collective exhibition “L’Atlas & Tanc” – “Gradation” – Galerie G – 23 rue des Lilas – Paris 19
2010 | June 16 – 20
Contemporary Art Fair “Art Basel” – Bâle / Suisse
2010 | April 15 – 30
Collective exhibition – Galerie G – 23 rue des Lilas – Paris 19
2009 | November 2 – 8
Collective exhibition “Vao & Friends” – Espace Beaurepaire – 28, rue Beaurepaire – Paris
2009 | November 6
Collective performance “Akrylonumerik” – Fondation Cartier – Paris
2009 | October 29 – 31
Stroke.01 Urban Art Fair – Munich / Allemagne
2009 | September 8 – October 10
Collective exhibition “Etats des lieux” – Agnès b : Galerie du jour – Paris
2009 | May 4 – 11
Solo exhibition “TANC” – Espace Beaurepaire – 28, rue Beaurepaire – Paris
2009 | March 27 – April 26
Collective exhibition “T.A.G – collection Gallizia” – Grand Palais – Paris
2009 | March 18 – April 18
Collective exhibition “Reload” – Galerie Celal – 45, rue Saint-Honoré – Paris
2008 | December 5 – February 2
Collective exhibition “Lay down the reality” – Galerie Moretti et Moretti – Paris

2008
Solo exhibition – Studio 55 – Paris
2007
Collective exhibition – Studio 55 – Paris
2007
Contemporary Art Fair “Les artistes casset la baraque” – Place Saint Sulpice – Paris
2007
Collective exhibition “Shangaï Cube” – Shanghaï / Chine
2007
Solo exhibition “16issant” – Galerie Stua – Paris
2006
Collective exhibition “The content of my head is visible” – Espace Beaurepaire – 28, rue Beaurepaire – Paris
2006
Collective exhibition “Intersections” – Le Boaz – Bruxelles / Belgique
2006 | April 12 – 22
Collective exhibition “Aux arts citoyens, la révolution par l’image” – Espace des Blancs Manteaux – 48 rue Vieille du Temple – Paris
2006
Collective exhibition “My street my city” – Amsterdam / Pays-Bas
2006
Collective exhibition “TNT” – Galerie Chappe – 4, rue André Barsacq – Paris