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The Reposition of Sights

“Seeing” has never been a one-way act. As we see artworks, the artworks, in turn, see us back.

“The Reposition of Sights” centers around the dual states of “seeing” and “being seen,” inviting ten international contemporary artists to respond to the familiar act of seeing through their distinctive visual languages.

Some works within the exhibition embody an active gaze: figures within the compositions confront the viewer directly, projecting emotion, energy, and imagination outward, at times even carrying the intention of forming a connection. In doing so, viewers gradually become aware that they themselves are also being seen. Other works return to the more traditional role of being observed, where unfolding scenes, situations, and relationships within the image carry the viewer’s gaze and interpretation, turning seeing into a process of negotiating relationships, power, and distance.

By placing “seeing” and “being seen” side by side, the exhibition dissolves the fixed boundaries between observer and observed, allowing the two positions to continuously shift and exchange throughout the act of viewing. As gazes begin to circulate back and forth, seeing becomes more than a simple action. Through the notion of “Reposition,” the exhibition further reflects on the shifting nature of perspective and perception: how we see artworks, how artworks see us, and how we come to recognize ourselves through these constantly changing positions of seeing.

Baku Maeda
Dima Kashtalyan
Giorgio Tentolini
Katharina Arndt
Marcelo Suaznabar
Mario Soria
Moises Yagues
Rhys Brown
Shoko Mihira
Yasuhito Kawasaki

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Dylan Gill x Giorgio Tentolini 2025 Duo Exhibition

Ting Ting Art Space is proud to present two distinctive and contemplative solo exhibitions in May 2025. British artist Dylan Gill and Italian artist Giorgio Tentolini will showcase their works on the first and second floors respectively, using the contrasting languages of painting and sculpture to explore themes of perception, presence, and visual experience.

On the first floor, “Traces of Unseen” by Dylan Gill offers an immersive look into the artist’s signature multi-perspective portraiture. Raised in a lively working-class household in London, Gill found in painting a quiet yet resolute form of self-expression. Through layered viewpoints, elegant color palettes, and rhythmic compositions, he reconstructs the human figure and challenges conventional ways of seeing.

Upstairs, Italian artist Giorgio Tentolini—renowned in the European contemporary art scene for his wire mesh sculptures—presents “The Lights Between.” His work blends light, structure, and classical aesthetics to search for the essence of image between abstraction and figuration. Using finely hand-cut wire layered over monochrome backgrounds, Tentolini creates portraits, statues, and architectural forms purely through the interplay of light and shadow. Viewed closely, the surface dissolves into intricate hexagonal grids; from a distance, ghostly forms subtly emerge.

Together, these two exhibitions bridge painting and sculpture, the UK and Italy, the flat and the dimensional. We warmly invite you to experience the space between visibility and mystery—where light and form quietly reveal themselves.

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Giorgio Tentolini

Giorgio Tentolini was born in Casalmaggiore (Cremona) in 1978, he trained in Graphic Arts at the Toschi Art Institute in Parma, to graduate in design and communication at the University of Reggio Emilia. After stages with artists such as Marco Nereo Rotelli, he began a very personal research with installations on a photographic basis, for which he immediately obtained significant recognition. His paintings are influenced by his work as a photographer when he used to break down images in chiaroscuro levels.

Each of his works is born from a precise investigation of Time as memory and identity, in a careful and slow reconstruction that takes place with the study of light and the engraving of layers of different materials, fabrics, papers, PVC. Tulle and adhesive tape are the current medium of his search for the meditative lightness that its layers give back to the image, a metaphor for places and memories, dreams and visions. A pictorial work living the reality of sculpture.

Through the stratification of memories and experiences, the image resurfaces in this intangible substance, made possible only by losing oneself in a vision that does not follow the cognitive parameters of perception, raising doubts and questions about the true consistency of human being and the impossibility of fully grasping the essence of reality.