Pengpai News learned that "Looking at Art: The First Look" Ya Ji opened in the Shanghai Dahu United Art Space on October 22, presenting 15 painters' paintings by Shanghai artists Yu Youhan , Li Bin, Zhuang Yiling, Jiang Jianzhong, Yu Qiping, Lian Liang, Liu Manwen, Song Kexi, Huang Yuanqing , Chen Xiang, Chai Yiming, Hong Jian, Bao Ying, Pang Fei , and Wang Yuhong. The exhibitors include both academic elites and professional artists, representative figures of contemporary art and younger generation of painters in the academy, with the time span from the 1990s to the present.
Walking into the exhibition hall, two small paintings are unique under a beam of light. They are manuscripts by the well-known contemporary artist Yu Youhan in the 1990s. Yu Youhan is the first group of contemporary artists to be recognized internationally since the reform and opening up of . He is a representative artist of abstract art and political pop art in the avant-garde art movement in the 1980s and 1990s.
"The reason why I strongly invite Mr. Yu Youhan to participate is a foreign past that he once told during an interview. It was the first time that Chinese contemporary artists collectively participated in the Venice Biennale in 1993. Although this incident has little to do with the importance of the exhibition and the attention it attracted, it was the artist who was pioneering and elegant in his heart who still had the delicacy and sensitivity that he still had when he arrived in his twilight years after his youth and middle age, he moved me very much at that time," said Xu Jiahe. She also focused on recording this story in the "first glance". Yu Yu, the son of Yu Youhan, happened to find the small work that condensed Yu Lao's feelings.
works of Yu Youhan 21x14cm manuscript
essays of Italian friends "Portrait of Yu Youhan" 26x18cm manuscript
According to reports, Ya Ji includes fifteen participating artists, Yu Youhan, Li Bin, Zhuang Yiling, Jiang Jianzhong, Yu Qiping, Lian Liang, Liu Manwen, Song Kexi, Huang Yuanqing, Chen Xiang, Chai Yiming, Hong Jian, Bao Ying, Pang Fei, and Wang Yuhong, and exhibited works of different stages, media and subject matters.
These exhibitors have appeared in the collection of art reviews "First Look at Art" published by Shanghai Dictionary Publishing House . The book was first published in Dashang Art Space on March 12 this year. The author is Xu Jiahe, a Shanghai Literary and Art Reporter of Xinmin Evening News. Most of the articles included in the book were published on Xu Jia and served as a reporter for "Oriental Morning Post·Art Review". This art weekly analyzed the Chinese art world in depth with an independent attitude and tried to solve the "problems" mixed with ideals, history, skills, concepts, capital, hype, brokers... that cannot tell the difference between each other.
Exhibition site
This time, Xu Jiahe returned to this space as a curator and joined hands with academic host and art critic Shi Jianbang to launch this elegant gathering. The original starting point of Yaji was "The First Look at Art", and most of the artists who participated in Yaji were also artists they had interviewed. Although the artistic expressions adopted by artists are different, behind these paintings is their unique expression of thoughts and the world.
displays the recent works of abstract artist Huang Yuanqing in the middle of the space. Huang Yuanqing disintegrates the timeliness of calligraphy into the crowding of space, overlapping of various lines, and bursting of various color blocks. Huang Yuanqing believes that "the accumulation of time will change the face of the work. And what really changes is the author himself."
Exhibition site
Chen Xiang, who graduated from the Chinese Department of Fudan University, is currently the director of Shanghai Art Museum ( Chinese Art Palace ) and was once the dean of Shanghai Chinese Academy of Painting. literati painting focuses on the rest of the work of literati. The literati's interests can indulge in the green mountains and rivers, or they can also carefully savor the world of clear streams and fishing hidden in a small space. Techniques are the externality of concepts, and the core is the poetic realm that the heart is fascinated by. Chen Xiang once said, "What kind of person draws what kind of paintings." The 20 complete set of paper-jammed works on display this time lead viewers into a modern human Tao Yuanming dream like a montage.
Chen Xiang's "One of the Leisure Leaves" 12x12cm Gold paper color
Zhuang Yiling's paintings, large-scale smudges have helped the landscape to get rid of the discernible natural forms, and the imagery is between nature and the inner universe; Lian Liang connects with the beauty of the artistic conception of Song paintings, and tries to introduce the spatial concept of Chinese gardens, such as the classical and realistic physical space.
Zhuang Yiling's "Golden Autumn" 21x21cm Ancient gold paper Rock color
Lian Liang's "Yixiang Picture" 30×91cm Paper color
"Painting creation cannot be repeated by itself, each painting has its own life characteristics." Jiang Jianzhong said. As a powerful figure in the field of oil painting in Shanghai, this time he quietly took out the Chinese painting that he had been painting for forty years and made public.
Jiang Jianzhong's "How Many Years of Xianyang"
Chai Yiming's landscape paintings exhibited combine Chinese landscapes, abstract geometric structures, Western landscape paintings, and science fiction alien images, forming a new middle ground between Western landscapes and Chinese landscape forms. Yu Qiping's works are similar to a dreamy escape from reality, and even put your audience in the perspective of a voyeurist.
works of Yu Qiping
works of Chai Yiming
Born in Harbin and graduated from the People's Liberation Army Academy of Art Song Kexi's works have become more bold and unrestrained, not focused on details, and have an attitude towards reality. Painters Bao Ying and Pang Fei from Shanghai Chinese Academy of Painting also participated in the exhibition with works that were different from their usual style.
Huang Yuanqing's works 175x150cm 2022-7
Bao Ying's works
Liu Manwen is one of the few female artists in the Yaquan collection. Unlike the early Expressionist oil painting creations, the works on display this time are an integral part of the "MSC" series that began in 2019. Liu Manwen's oil painting language is becoming increasingly simple. She has passed by exploring the survival fate of a century-old woman. She relaxed in the scenery and found a few pencil prints on the glossy water surface, which is a proof of the long process.
Liu Manwen's "MSC" 100x130cm Oil paintings on canvas
The huge historical paintings created by Li Bin can always give people the dual shock of historical connotation and visual impact. This painter who keeps looking for clues and self-repentance in the gaps of time reminds people of the poem " Antonio Machado , "You will see the endless battle plains and the grassland of hermits/In this wilderness, there is no shadow of the Bible Paradise/This is the land where the eagle soars, in a corner of this planet/Wandering the displaced soul of Cain."
Li Bin's "Yang Jingyu -2" 21.9*15.7cm Oil painting comic strip
