Tanc (born 1979), visual artist and composer who came from graffiti, turns gesture into rhythm: thousands of vibrating strokes, often in deep blues. Oil paintings and original screenprints to discover below.
Born in Paris on 11 May 1979, Tanc is a visual artist and composer who emerged from graffiti. His work, at the crossroads of street art and gestural abstraction, is built on thousands of repeated strokes that vibrate like a pulse. Oil paintings and original screenprints: the gallery presents several of them above.
From the early 2000s, Tanc moved away from graffiti towards an abstract painting based on gesture. He has exhibited in France and abroad, in Germany, the United Kingdom, Morocco and New York. His series Ultramarine, devoted to blue, has become his signature: dense surfaces of great mural presence.
After a very colourful period, he has also explored blacks, linear variations and automatic writing. His work engages with abstract expressionism and lyrical abstraction, from Rothko to Franz Kline, including Hans Hartung.
A musician, Tanc has been marked by electronic and experimental music, from which he retains repetition and pulse. He applies the pure gesture, without sketch or pentimento, and builds compositions that read like visual scores. This energy recalls the gestural abstraction of Georges Mathieu and the abstract graffiti of JonOne.
His collaboration with L'Atlas brings together two writings of the urban scene: one born of the musical gesture, the other of the calligraphy of the streets.
Among the works by Tanc offered online:
Ultramarine 167 has already found a buyer, and other works will join the page as acquisitions are made. Also discover our prints and screenprints. Order online: each work is described in detail, delivered with its invoice-certificate, carefully packed, then shipped with tracking and insurance.
It is devoted to blue: thousands of fine, tight strokes compose vibrating surfaces, between depth and light.
The oils are unique pieces, in large format. The screenprints, produced in editions, allow you to acquire his gesture at a more accessible price.
Yes: he began with graffiti before turning, in the early 2000s, to a gestural abstraction inspired by music.
