Ruben Pang
Graduation Night (Triptych), 2015
Oil, alkyd and retouching varnish on aluminium composite panel
150 x 450 cm
Graduation Night is Ruben Pang’s interpretation of Leonardo da Vinci's mural painting “The Last Supper”. Removing the boundary between abstraction and representation, the artist re-imagined with what appears to be...
Graduation Night is Ruben Pang’s interpretation of Leonardo da Vinci's mural painting “The Last Supper”. Removing the boundary between abstraction and representation, the artist re-imagined with what appears to be cosmic energy and kinetic vibrations the scene from the last days of Jesus Christ.
“I wanted to portray it with only the essential elements. For me, the most poignant thing about the painting was Da Vinci’s choice to lay it out in a horizontal way. I took this similar composition to express in an abstract sense a feeling of broken bread and bloodlines.”
Ruben Pan
“I wanted to portray it with only the essential elements. For me, the most poignant thing about the painting was Da Vinci’s choice to lay it out in a horizontal way. I took this similar composition to express in an abstract sense a feeling of broken bread and bloodlines.”
Ruben Pan
Provenance
The Tiroche DeLeon Collection & ST-ART Residency, Summer 2015
Publications
"Exclusive interview with Ruben Pang" | The Artling | September 2015."An interview with Serge Tiroche & Ruben Pang (English)" | i24news | July 2015.
"Entretien avec Serge Tiroche et Ruben Pang (French)" | i24news | July 2015.
Anna Dickie | "A conversation with Serge Tiroche" | Ocula | July 2015.
Marie Rousseau | "Combining Art And Finance" | December 2015.
Neo Huiyuan | "Inside the Mind of Ruben Pang" | The Octant | September 15 2016.