Welcome to Utterly Art

Like a funnel, Singaporean artist Andre Tan acts as a filter to channel multiple disparate images from all that he sees around him into singular visions upon canvas. Cartoon superheroes, advertising copy and real-life photographs are distilled into attention-grabbing tableaux of the bold and the beautiful, that ultimately find their way into posh homes and condominiums where they function as eye-catching retablos for the worship of mass consumption and popular culture. The irony is not lost on the artist, but his purpose is not so much critique as creative composition: he appropriates images randomly and reinterpretes them using his own colours and aesthetics. There are no meanings beyond what the audience wants to read into his paintings. Reality meets fiction as Muhammad Ali and Sonny Liston battle before a backdrop of Superman and the Hulk; East meets West as Chinese communist workers parade under American comic typefaces; and the audience meets the Master, as Andy Warhol is presented in all his striking graphic essence. Welcome to Andre's world of his pop SUPERSTARS.