Works on Paper by Tashi Brauen 6 October - 6 November 2016

This exhibition introduces Swiss-Tibetan artist Tashi Brauen (b. 1980), featuring his latest works on paper. Brauen's interest lies in observing the characteristics of objects in relation to people and everyday materials. He combines amorphous structures with geometrical forms. "I am interested in working with common materials and transforming them into a new form. It's an attempt to give a new view on different contemporary materials and shapes which are surrounding us."

At the heart of Brauen's practice is a study about materials and their surfaces reacting with different interventions. "When I use a new material it’s always an experiment. I start with bending and folding the new material, observing its characteristics. At the end my intention is to keep the interventions to a minimum."

For his show at the Serindia Gallery in Bangkok Tashi Brauen is using paper to materialize this process. He will show the photo work Untitled (photo cardboard), 2016. Characteristic of the used material is the rough texture of the photo cardboard. Hardly any of the angles meet each other exactly. It would have been simple to enhance the precision through image processing, however, Brauen opts for a mere appearance of geometry in the aesthetics of a rendering.

The work Crack is Brauen's latest work. The work was developed from failures and coincidences in his studio through seeing an aesthetic in tears and ruptures in cardboard. The spontaneous aspect of tearing is similar to that in painting in that it has a direct character, and that an immediate reaction can follow.

Tashi Brauen lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland. After attending HGKZ (the former Zurich University of the Arts), he graduated from Institut-Kunst, fhnw, Basel, in 2010. He has exhibited widely in galleries and museums in Switzerland, France and the USA, at institutions such as Kunsthaus Steffisburg (2016), Kunstmuseum Thun (2015), Kunstmuseum Bern (2013), FABRIKculture in H?genheim (2013), Stadtgalerie Bern (2012), Centre PasquArt in Biel (2012) and Museum B?rengasse in Zurich (2012).