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by Annie de Veertens - Paris 2009
As well-known streetartists recently came to the canvas - and the contemporary market, Tian is going agaisnt the tide, and likes to think he is a painter who adapts his work to the streets, to the walls of Paris, London, São Paulo or Bristol.
Streetart, Pop Art, "figuration narrative", Tian mixes screenprinted paint, stencil and spraypaint, marker to extract a unique style made of cock-and-bull stories that he serves on canvas.
His unknow or star actors, Harlem boxers, Soul singers, geishas, bull-terriers or bondage pin-up evenly escape from his studio to reappear on the walls of big cities.
A really fresh approach, a technique that really works, senseless collisions, Tian upsets us, messing up all our marks and digging the tracks of a new trend, where urban collage, à-la-pop" screenprint, streetart and contemporary painting meet each other.
this is painting
by Amnot Goudinoff - Paris 2006
Tian's paintings cannot be talked about; they talk to us.
Weird stories, varied and intriguing, sometimes funny, sometimes obscure.
Stories which throw us into a jumbled inner world, full of references, inhabited by people in full flight, dangerous animals, lost children, femmes fatales and angry men.
Narrative artworks, politically incorrect and yet proud of it.
Pugnatious and playful, chaotic and figurative, funny and nasty.
Without however having lost a certain tenderness towards its protagonists who are themselves cornered in between their own contradictions (softness and nastiness, love and violence, innocence and guilt).
Screen Printing paintings which Tian adopts and adapts; he mixes and remixes with traditional techniques, to bring out the unexpected essence as he pulls away from its often unpopular mechanical aspect .
Fresh art, fluctuating between its Pop Art elders, Narrative Figurative, and the contemporary tendencies of Street Art and even Digital...
In its infancy, his style is allready asserting itself, easily readable and yet still in a constant process of evolution
Strange paintings. An out of the way itinerary for this impertinent follower of Rauschenberg and Rancillac, of Warhol and Basquiat, of Banksy and MissVan.
“One could recognize your talent amongst all.” (Marie)
“Daddy, Batman's suit is not very well drawn.”
(Timothée)
“Your typography, Your serigraphy (screenprint)...
Your senses take me all !”
(Coco)
“A very efficient and intriguing work...!
I Hope I will have the chance to revisit it.
Lot of pleasure, thanks”
(Adline)
“A bull terrier who peeps out the tip of its muzzle ”(...)
"Attention, (lick) polished work"
(Ouest France)