TNT Contemporary Art Center is pleased to present "11 lonely conversations" solo exhibition by Francois Bancon, on view from July 31, 2021. The exhibition summarizes and presents Mr. Bancon's research over the years on image making and brings together his surrealist mixed media art works from 2002 to the present. This exhibition is also the first official exhibition since the refurbishment of TNT Contemporary Art Center, which will show contemporary art with a brand-new look.

11 Lonely Conversations

Francois Bancon Solo Exhibition 

Exhibition Design
Institution: TNT Contemporary Art Center , Shenzhen
Role: Curator
Year: 2021

“...It was probably on that day that I was born as an artist;  by this supreme failure that art always is, man, eternal cheater of himself, tries to pass off as a response what is doomed to remain as a tragic challenge...”

Romain Gary, the promise of dawn.  Gallimard edition, 1960.

Like a conversation between friends, over a drink, sometimes relaxed, sometimes a little absent.  Sometimes there and others times elsewhere.

Gathering where we talk about everything and nothing.  Flowers, people crossed here and there, of the weather, of fortuitous encounters ... also about common memories and other times of suffering and loneliness, of the state of the world, of the street corner, and of friendship

Humanity, from small to large, where scale and proportion of things, beings and settings obey only to emotions and to memories.  Memory which dictates to reality its consistency, its very existence. Memory that resists reality that is both elusive and intrusive, memory that draws for us the images that tell of us and that we share.

Humanity, Memory, Resistance, from the simple to the complex, from black and white to colour... images come well before words. A certain praise of the complex too, as general simplification takes away from the human in us, bringing us closer to  the machine, to consume, to obey and never to seek the hidden meaning.

Irrecoverable, unusable images that serve our gesture of freedom, trying to design a purpose, a horizon.

Icons that give nothing to see except a small part of the invisible, perhaps.  Our world is dematerialized, images give it back a body.  Images of the Other, Image of our surroundings, Images that form our neighborhood.

F. Bancon. Note about the H_Conversation.

[1]The Artist Workshop

# 1 to # 5 (150x150cm)                         print for show 100x100 cm (5 images)
# 6 (400x120cm)                                   print for show 333x100 cm (1 image)
+ selection of additional photo
(model serie photographs)                    print for show 100x66.6 cm (5 images)

[2] Benevolent Shadows

# 1, 2, 3, 4, 12, 15 (120x40cm)             print for show 120x40 cm (6 images)

[3]Call it Home

# 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (120x100cm)                   print for show 100x83.3 cm (5 images)

[4]City_Rebels

# 1, 3, 8, 12, 18, 19 (80x60cm)             print for show 66.6x50cm (6 images)

[5]Past_Impressions(previously Impression-Abattoir)

# 1, 2, 3 (280x200cm)                           print for show 210.5x150 cm (3 images)

[6]Kind_Nature(triptych)

# A, B, C (200x160cm)                         print for show 150x120 cm (3 images)

[7]Singular_Thoughts (previous lonely thoughts)

# 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8 (110x50cm)                 print for show 100x45 cm (6 images)

[8] Lonely_Lights

# diptych right and left (160x200cm)   print for show 160x200 cm (2 images)

+ photo 3 vertical panels (62x200cm)  print for show 62x200 cm (3 images)

+ mirrors/lighting

[9] Territory_Loneliness

# 1, 2, 3, 4 + display/computer/camera(85x120cm)
print for show 85x120 cm (4 images)

[10]Blurred_Memory_Control

# 2, 3, 4 (200x200cm)                           print for show 200x200 cm (3 images)

[11]Masks_Hero [T.A.M.]

Images #1 and 2 (100x100cm)             print for show 100x100 cm (2 images)

# 7, 10, 19, 21 (250x300cm)

make 1 print (166x200cm)               print for show 166x200 cm (1 image)

# 8, 9, 12, 14, 17, 22, 24 (160x200cm)   print for show 160x200 cm (7 images)

+ pict all process and images         + monument                            print for show

TOTAL 60 PRINTS (11 series)