|Exhibition Info|

Artists: Feng Lianghong, He Jinhua, Lin Jing, Yuan Zuo

Curator: Kelvin Huang

Duration: 2019. 10. 19 — 2019. 12. 09

Open Hours: 11:00 - 20:00

Venue: Kui Yuan Gallery, No.9, Xuguyuan Road, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou (广州市越秀区恤孤院路9号 逵园艺术馆)

Feng Lianghong "Melt-1" Acrylic on paper 60x30cm 2019 [Photo provided to Newsgd.com]

|Excerpt of the exhibition’s foreword|

Art works, as an extension of language expression, whose truth and one of the functions is to get into people’s sight, minds or lead people to think about and respond to the information that cannot be conveyed by language, and to perceive the meaning between lines.

In this exhibition, you may explore the essence of abstract art through the works of four artists, Feng Lianghong, He Jinhua, Lin Jing and Yuan Zuo, and perceive the light and line, time and space that beyond the sight of our naked eyes.

Feng Lianghong’s works are like the process of thick fog dispersing in the chaotic world. Clearly and peacefully, the picture in mind widely unfolded under layers of colours among the reverberating aura.

Representation and abstraction are only materials and different carriers of the inner world. The co-relations between the multiple elements of the works and the multi-layers of semantics behind the works constitute the core of the construction of He Jinhua’s works. He is good at creating different styles of works with different materials, and interpreting emotions and thoughts of individuals in different periods.

Beneath the ebullience and drastic appearance of Lin Jing’s works, there is a wisp of elusive rational restraint. At the same time, the works also reveal the romantic and delicate nature of women. Colours are overlapped and blended, strokes are random and smooth, infinite information is seemingly intentionally hidden by her, and it makes people more eager to identify and interpret the thoughts or meaning behind it.

Exploring and defining light, speed, space and direction is the theme of Yuan Zuo’s painting. He hopes to integrate his inheritance of oriental painting tradition and the understanding of Western painting into his creation, so that to explore the essence of painting language and the instinct of creation.

These works brought to us by the four artists seem to form a question worth pondering, whose essence lies not in its picture, or its technique, but in the content of it and its infinite extension and expansion. These works give us each a reason and freedom to tell the story.

He Jinhua "A Proud Lie" Resin, metallic paint 94x53x43cm 2019 [Photo provided to Newsgd.com]

|Artists’ Profiles|

Feng Lianghong

Born in 1962 in Shanghai, China. Graduated from Shanghai Art and Design School in 1983. Graduated from Central Academy of Craft Art (now The Academy of Arts & Design of Tsinghua University) in 1989. Moved to New York in 1990. Returned to China and established his studio in Beijing in 2006. He currently lives and works in Beijing.

Selected solo exhibitions:Loose Abstraction, Yuan Art Museum, Beijing, China(2018). Form & Posture, 1618 Gallery, Shenzhen, China(2016). Impromptu & Repeating, Museum Angerlehner, Austria(2016).

Selected group exhibitions:Abstract Plus, Essence· Comperporary Art Museum, Chongqing, China(2018). Beijing Abstract, Parkview Art Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China(2018). Chinese Spirit: The 4th Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition Section III Abstract—Non-fugurative Oil Painting Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China(2017).

He Jinhua

Born in 1969 in Guangzhou, China. Graduated from the Sculpture Department of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 1992. He is the member of Guangdong Provincial Artist’s Association, committee member of Guangzhou Sculpture Society, guest sculptor of Guangzhou Sculpture Academy. He currently lives and works in Guangzhou.

Selected group exhibitions:The 3rd Tianhe Public Art Festival, Guangzhou, China(2019). The 1st Academic Annual Exhibition of the Sculpture Art Committee of Guangzhou Artist’s Association, Guangzhou, China(2019). The 5th South-north Sculpture Exhibition of china, Haikou & Guangzhou, China(2018). Time flow, Frankfurt, Germany(2018). The 1st Shantou Public Art Festival, Shantou, China(2017). Inter-City Sculpture Exchange Exhibition, Guangzhou, China(2017).

Lin Jing "Untitled No.2" Oil on canvas 40x50cm 2018 [Photo provided to Newsgd.com]

Lin Jing

Born in 1974 in Guangzhou, China. Graduated from the Mural Painting Department of Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1996. Graduated from the Sculpture Department of Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, Belgium in 2000. She currently lives and works in Beijing.

Selected solo exhibitions:Lin Jing: FEI, Pékin Fine Arts, Beijing & Hong Kong, China(2019). Clean Up, Contrasts Gallery, Beijing, China(2006). Linjing Design Solo Exhibition, Audi Center, Beijing, China(2006).

Selected group exhibitions:WO ART CHAO, CHAO, Beijing, China(2018). DESIGN SHANGHAI, Shanghai, China(2016). Design Contemporain Chinois, Piasa, Paris, France(2016). “Riding Chair” Chinese and Asian Contemporary Design by Christie’s, Autumn Auction, Shanghai, China(2016).

Yuan Zuo "Local News-Oversea Edition IV" Collage print 50x65cm 2019 [Photo provided to Newsgd.com]

Yuan Zuo

Born in 1957 in Beijing, China. Studied in Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1981, and later graduated from Massachusetts College of Art and Design with BFA and MFA. He started to teach as an Associate Professor at the Foundation Department of Academy of Arts and Design of Tsinghua University in 2008. He was named the deputy director of the Visual Art Center and the vice chair of the Foundation Department at the Academy and the Director of Inside-Out Art Museum Beijing in 2009. He is the Deputy Director of Artist Association of Western Returned Scholars Association, Beijing and the Guest PhD. Program Adviser in Fine Art at Macau University of Science and Technology.

Selected solo exhibitions:Return To The South-Painting of Yuan Zuo, Light Logos Art Museum, Beijing, China(2018). Dreamless Storm, 798 Art Bridge Gallery, Beijing, China(2015).

Selected group exhibitions:Abstract Plus, Essence · Comperporary Art Museum, Chongqing, China(2018). Beijing Abstract, Parkview Art Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China(2018). Draw (Over): Contemporary Drawing From LeRoy Neiman Till Today, Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia(2018).