Tan Haur

Friday, November 21, 2008

Black Mountain New Series ll / 黑山丛林系列 ll

Black Mountain New Series ll

黑山丛林系列 ll

(Fine Art 纯美术系列 ll)

Black Mountain New Series

黑山丛林系列

(Fine Art 纯美术系列)

Tan Haur: “I have just completed a body of work recently, it is named as 《Black Mountain New Series》 reflecting cross cultural environment, global climate changes awareness and human perception issues; this series of artwork is a result of integrating paintings, drawings and photo images. I appreciate if you could share your opinion, thoughts and suggestions on this body of work :-)

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27″ W x 36″ H

(Archival ink on watercolor paper-IJ coated.)

Artist: Tan Haur

email:

tanhaurart@yahoo.com

website:

www.tanhaur.net

Friday, October 10, 2008

Academic Director at Raffles Design Institute 2008~2009

Web Site:

http://rafflesedu.cn/CPD/News/NewsDetails.aspx?ItemID=679&CategoryID=257109c9-5343-4f76-b239-51f6183e63e2

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Fine art photography work by Tan Haur

Cocoon

There’s such a sociological term “cocooning” to describe one of our current major living trends and lifestyle in modern society. And it has been a while that I’ve made a visual comparison between the heavy-looking man-made structures with little birds flying freely in the sky. You may sense the different vibration in two completely different worlds, as to say, with such a great contrast in their vision statement, it makes sense for us to ask these questions:

Besides surrounded by walls, are there any other barriers that we created in our own life?
With more walls building up, are we getting lesser time to interact with others or nature?
Physical walls are just symbolic kinds of things, how about the invisible walls in our own thoughts?

What we could do is sit quietly at a corner of the Café, sipping a cup of house-brewed coffee, and watch the pigeons catching fun and turning to our table for food. Is probably a luxury moment in our fast-paced life by not doing anything but simply watching and searching for what we really want to be and being deep inside at this peaceful moment of “now”.

~Tan Haur

[Connection]

Email Tan Haur at:

tanhaur@gmail.com

WhatsApp & SMS:

(+65) 9070 2000

Sunday, December 30, 2007

Media report- on NY Arts Beijing website

web site:

http://www.nyartsbeijing.cn/pfwebplus/ArtistResidency/RESIDENCE/lipDetailShow.aspx?Id=26

Thursday, December 20, 2007

{ Back Stage }

Watching my niece, Ling, practicing her dance with great passion, is marvelous. - mui

{ Back Stage }

photographer: Tan Haur

Monday, December 17, 2007

in Beijing 『因』北京 by Tan Haur

『因』北京

This exhibition reflects Tan Haur’s passion in black & white, and color fine art photography, focusing into straight street photography and mirroring fractions of strong visual statement of the local subject matters by placing two photos into one frame. Avoiding complicated postproduction in stitching and blending photos, majority of the photos in pairs are simply place side by side to shed light on his ideas and artistic statement. This body of work should not be simply view as an artist’s photo dialogue experienced through in December 2007, Beijing, but very much an in depth expression of “Zen” in its daily life context.

Friday, November 30, 2007

Digital Art for All- at Bishan Library Singapore, 2007

"Digital Art For Everybody" community program - Tan Haur teaching digital art at Bishan Library, Singapore.

Monday, November 05, 2007

Media report - Singapore Art Gallery Guide November 2005

Published article " When Blood turned Green" by Tan Haur on Singapore Art Gallery Guide, Nov. 2007

When Blood turned Green

(A journey into underwater art)

by Tan Haur

The times when an accident acts as a catalyst leading onto a string of discoveries, a breakthrough, best illustrated by the story of the apple falling upon Newton, is a common enough phenomenon. I was the happy benefactor of one such accident. On one of my early diving trips near Phi Phi Island off the coast of Thailand, I cut my palm upon a coral. It was the pain that made me realized that I had sustained a cut, and when I looked at my palm to assess the damage, I was mesmerized to see green blood oozing out from the wound. All divers know that red light does not travel far into water and the greater the depth the more it has been absorbed. Yet the shock that came along with this perception of green blood overwhelmed me. It rocked me, and the pain notwithstanding, I was transcended into a new level of awareness. Suddenly the beauty, color and the magnificence of the submarine environment took on a fresh dimension, it screamed out to me. There and then I was moved to record, translate and share the glories of the underwater world. But how does one do this?