Shaun Tan’s “Untold Tales” at beinArt Gallery.
Opening on March 9th, 2019 at beinArt Gallery in Brunswick, Victoria, Australia is artist Shaun Tan’s solo exhibition, “Untold Tales.”
This highly anticipated exhibition features a diverse collection of Shaun Tan’s narrative artwork taken from the past two decades, from large-scale oil paintings to small whimsical sketches, relating either to published work or to personal projects that have not been previously exhibited or made commercially available. They collectively present a cross-section of narrative experiments exploring the fertile ground between childhood picture books and adult fables, each image suggesting a deeper story that is best left to unfold in the mind of the viewer: a family living happily in a skull, an unexpected dinner guest, a bird king, a lonely creature living in a bathroom, a portrait that’s also a landscape. These are strange and highly personal visions that speak of everyday, universal feelings, and they present a special insight into the broader working practices of one of the world’s most acclaimed illustrators.
The exhibition will be on view until March 31st, 2019.
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