Ideas of the Exhibition
By Bao Dong
This exhibition is the forth instalment of Painting Lesson series. With visual language of painting as its starting point, it attempts to construct a theoretical model for analysis of painting language, in light of conceptual differences and practical connections of three dimensions in painting - figure, body, and image.
For many painters, figure, body and image form a triplicity. They are different from each other and coexistent at every moment. In fact, any brush stroke embodies these three dimensions: it is at the same time a part of graphic figure (form), body (modeling), and image (meaning). Every brush stroke is a Borromean Knot. Just as self-consciousness of rhyme, meter and metaphor in literature results in poetic theories, discussions of figure-body-image in painting could result in a visual theory, which may not only be a methodology of research, but also a methodology of creation. In the form of small-scale group exhibition, Painting Lesson series constitute a series of concrete perspectives for discussion of painting. After this forth instalment, it will forsake the form of annual group exhibition, and present itself in a more flexible way.
About the exhibition
Duration: June 1- July 13, 2014
Venue: Gallery Yang
Opening: June 1, 2014, 4pm - 7pm
Curator: Bao Dong
Artists: Deng Yifu, Jian Ce, Tao Damin, Xiang Qinghua, Xu Xiaoguo, Zhang Hui
Tel: 010-59789491
Add: No.20, East of 798 Originality Square, B District in 798 Art Zone, No.2 Jiu Xianqiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing
Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Yang.
