Echo on Papers

Exhibition

Exhibition: Echo on Papers
Duration: 2020.6.20 - 2020.8.23
Address:

ARARIO GALLERY SHANGHAI 

A2, 1F, No. 2879 Longteng Avenue, Shanghai

 

Lu Ji, a calligrapher of the Jin Dynasty, wrote calligraphy work "Ping Fu Tie" on the hemp paper. Since then, the continuous development of ink painting and calligraphy has gradually made "paper" rooted in the genes of Chinese art. Until the coming of 85 New Wave Movement, the influx of massive Western cultural and artistic achievements triggered the extensive cultural collision between the Orient and West as well as the transformation of artistic language in China, the trend of which became the main rhythm in Chinese contemporary art field for the next 40 years. During this period, the various creations of the local artists have remained in the mark of this turning point of Chinese art history. In a paused year as 2020, it is of special significance to look back at the artistic creation during the important language transition of Chinese contemporary art in the past half century.

 

The changeable overprinting of dots, circles and geometries records the creative trajectory of Artist Chen Qiang, who is known as a representative figure of Shanghai abstract painting. From the obvious sense of form and decorative inclination in Chen’s early works, to his embodiment of the Western Geometric abstraction’s concept "object is the object"  in later creations, then to the applying of Xuan paper as the main material and conducting meditation alike creation with unconscious brushstrokes, several veers of Chen Qiang’s artistic language potentiallly reveal the unique oriental idiosyncrasy of Chinese contemporary artists in abstract creation, which also fit art critic Gao Minglu’s theoretical summary of the characteristics of Chinese abstract paintings since the 1990s : the abstract artist's work that focuses on self-sufficiency and spiritual infinity has endless expressive and vividly reflects the "Marxist Concept", that is, beyond the object form of the work itself and present the specific feelings of individuals and the daily process of continuous development in specific life situation.

 

From paper to canvas, from ink to acrylic, from "heavy" to "light" and then reverse...with a series of artistic language conversions in the past 15 years, Huang Yuanqing continued to explore different cultures behind the artistic expression of the East and West,as he said, "like Tai Chi and boxing." The contradictory attributes of canvas and Xuan paper also nourish each other in Huang's works, but what remains consistent is a sense of writing that embodied in his paintings. Calligraphy as a secret and familiar trace of freedom, combined with the spatial possibility interwoven on the surface of the work, accomplish the shaping of artist’s expression of strong visual emotion. And when expression becomes a natural presentation rather than the result of will control, Zen concept is also precipitated under Huang Yuanqing's brush.


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