It’s all the tension of the urban breaker that is given to us to see through the artwork of Mo Maurice Tan. This artist originally from Singapore has travelled the world and its metropolises. Using the way like a pioneer, he builds up a travelling notebook, through which he express his assessment on the actual society. His massif and contrasting paintings allow the urban landscape to take its all dimension. He reassembles to a knot, which is formed by multiples connections in which the human being is fading.

Fascinated by the lines of the contemporary city, sensibility inherited from his architectural education, Mo Maurice Tan also describes it as the haunting and filled with ghost-like characters with outline faces. Reduced completely to the anonymity, they seem to lack all of the uniqueness seized by the power by the city and the multiple flows, which construct it.
Instead of swarming with them, time and space seem to freeze the city.
The employed skill participates to this impression as a sharp light almost divine cut these buildings and traffic network, leaving to us an icy or even apocalyptic atmosphere. By using the reduced palette, the artist proposes to us an imposing painting where dark and thick masses interwoven. It makes us aware of an authoritarian landscape that stimulates all our senses. We are suffocated and dizzy due to these architectural perspectives revealing a profundity nearly photographic which give us the sensation of the smell of released gas, the light gentle touch of the concrete wall. A century later, Mo Maurice Tan, by using the buildings and metro stations as emblems that characterize the world’s metropolises, just like Monet who through his impression on the station of Saint-Lazare delivering to us his apprehension of the modernity by choosing a symbol of the industrial revolution.

Which city is better than Tokyo to highlight the complexity of the actual society? Between ultra modernity and tradition, Mo Maurice Tan gets in the heart of the world’s greatest megalopolis, scrutinizing its codes and protagonists till spying on them through their window.

The exhibition that ADDICT Galerie devotes to him will then reveal to us the ambivalent feeling, between repulsion and fascination that the artist maintains with the modern life that he sublimates and criticizes. He makes violence and human loneliness palpable in this city by questioning the conscience of humanity in this contemporary society.