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Final week of “The tank man” by curated by our very own Elliot Clarke

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"The Tank Man" by NFN Kalyan August 13th – September 3rd, 2022

Curated by Elliot Clarke of IV Gallery

Presented at Band of Vices 5351 W. Adams Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90016

The Tiananmen Square tank man has been a central part of NFN Kalyan’s work for years. The anonymous protestor became famous, the world over, for standing in front of an oncoming row of Type 59 tanks. He represented the best in all of us; the courage we all hope we have. Kalyan’s work is always a visual assault on the viewer. It represents what’s coming and we can’t stop it. In The Tank Man series, the viewer is put into the paintings themselves. Desaturated figures and landscapes face the oncoming gold frames. We stand with them. Through the progression of paintings, that motif is stretched, examined, rotated, and finally broken. Human innocence is questioned, and the mirror is turned on the viewer. In turn, we march, invade, get assaulted, or simply brush our teeth. In each case, the gold frame says something to us about our actions. We can’t stop what’s coming because it is us. The harder we push the further forward we move. We are both the man and the tank.

"The great people we have killed, the environment we have destroyed and the lies we tell ourselves are terrible things. But we are supposed to hate the sin and love the sinner. The sinner is everyone who looks at my work. And the sinner is me. Because we are all human."- NFN Kalyan

coming to a near you Saturday August 13th. Elliot Clarke will curate the f$&k out if this show.

coming to a near you Saturday August 13th. Elliot Clarke will curate the f$&k out if this show.