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WANG QIANG Man in Blue, 2011, Acrylic on Canvas,121x180cm
Opening: 3pm, November 19th, 2011 November 20th, 2011 - January 15th, 2012
Abstract color on canvas and convincing realistic scene usually contradicts each other, while Wang Qiang reconciles them well. He captures the reality with penetrating eyes: authentic sense of being there, cool transparency, and air incredibly flowing in the painting - all present us a real and poetic world.
He refines traditional realistic painting with abstractionism and minimalism approach, and rationally constructs a modern art concept with unique personal style. Flat colors move freely in the space, presenting its profundity quietly. Powerful life finds peace in his paintings... the reality on his canvas seems more elusive than the past or the future.
On the other hand, the artist would like to take risks, choosing one scene after another that disregard public expectation. There is no exaggerated sensational gesture or hypocritical mask of immortality. They are solitary and elegant, existing with their own force.
Wang Qiang was born in Beijing, in 1971. He graduated from Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1997, achieved Meisterschüler by Prof. Konrad Klapheck and then studied by Prof. Jan Dibbets in 2002. He achieved the Akademiebrief of Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 2004, back to Beijing in 2008.
ZHU ZI | MOUNTAIN RIVER WATER
Opening: 3pm, November 19th, 2011 November 20th, 2011 - January 15th, 2012
With the simplest painting tools, Zhuzi the artist, paints elaborated charcoal and pencil lines on paper. These light and sparse strokes put natural objects like coiled school of fish, regularly rendered bamboos and peach garden in the causeway on stage, make one artificial surrealistic performance after another, and bring the audience into his non-narrative poetry with oriental aesthetics.
In ancient China, there were refined literati piled up stones, grafted flowers and transplanted trees, built pavilions around the lakes and thus created the "garden" - a hypothetical nature, making themselves feel close to the real nature. Zhuzi was born in the hilly area in the south of the Yangtze River, and went to city later for education and occupation. He is attracted by the vitality of big city while longing for the natural neighborhood. Painting finds him peace as if being in the Arcadia while he is actually in a rip-roaring city. His work is a re-interpretation of traditional Chinese culture complex under the edification of visual culture of the young generation, and at the meanwhile, brings about the eternal relationship between man and nature - no matter whom, at any time, the explicit reflection when facing the nature.
This exhibition will show works on paper by Zhuzi during 2009 to 2011. Zhuzi was born in Jiangxi Province, China, in 1984. He graduated from China Academy of Art in 2007.
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