Dear Friends,
We cordially invite you to ‘旺财报安 当代艺术展 | Year of the Dog Contemporary Fine Art Exhibition’ Opening Cocktail at YANG GALLERY • Beijing 798.
Date: 10th March 2018, 3-6pm
RSVP: beijing@yanggallery.info / +86 10 5762 3020
Venue: 3rd Taoci Street, 798 Art District, No. 4 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100015
We look forward to welcome your presence and to be of service to you soon!
Preface 前言
The dog is one of the 12 Chinese zodiac animal mascots. There goes a Chinese folk proverb, “dogs bring wealth”. Dogs are people’s friends and Chinese people usually call them “wangcai” 。The dogs barking always sounded like the pronunciation a Chinese character “wang”, whose meaning is equivalent to the English word “bowwow”. Linked to another character “cai”,which means the indication of prosperity, Chinese have developed a tradition of calling the pets dogs in a humanized name “wangcai”, hoping that dogs can bring wealth, social statues and fortune to their families. The name Wangcai conveys the wish of wellbeing，and is really easy to remember.
As the dogs were evolution from the wolves, the species of dogs formed around 16,000 years ago. They lost some of the wild nature, and turned to be docile and obedient. Humans and dogs have lived together for generations and developed a very close relationship. Dogs’ acute sense of smell and hearing, as well as the excellence of capturing, the remarkableness of endurance running speed, made them become a highly competent hunting assistant. Besides, when humans settled down, dogs began to act an important role in guarding shelters and properties of humans. It is undoubtedly that they are good helpers of human beings. Meanwhile, dogs could understand human emotions and respond to people’s body language. They can read our face of joy, anger or sorrow. As a result, the mutualistic relationship between human and dogs comes from their accompany and their owner’s trust. It is said that the devil-killing pet god who kept Er-Lang god company was the dog Xiaotian, depicted as China Canines. There are uncounted legends and myths, revealing dogs’ loyalty and brightness, known in either ancient or modern times.
There was an ancient Chinese poem depicting the scene that a latecomer backed home at a dark snowy night hearing the dog barking in front of the door. The dog barking reflected the excitement of hearing its owner groped the way to a wooden door. Backing home with a warm fireplace to warm the family, having a lovely dog as a guide, raising cups with friends, how pleasure these scenes are of returned person in this poem.
The paintings which portrayed Chinese zodiac animal dogs exhibited in this exhibition, pass on the significance of wellbeing and prosperity of the past year. Fulfilled and understanding all, we are truly content that we lived a full life, and Imaging the guiding wangcai dog smells the coming rightness of our own choice for the future.
Li Enduo, The doctoral candidate of China Central Academy of Fine Arts
狗被称为“人类的朋友”，象征了忠实和忠心。中国人对于狗十分喜爱，在西方更甚。人们将狗同等于人一样的地位看待，因为狗警觉、忠诚、勇敢的特点，还被认为是“最忠心的伙伴”。
2018新春之际，杨•国际艺术中心特邀众优秀艺术家创作以”狗”为主题的作品来庆祝新春佳节！
杨•国际艺术中心全体人员及参展艺术家恭祝朋友们2018万事如意！财源广进！我们衷心期待各位藏家、艺术家及同仁朋友们的继续支持和关爱！
杨·国际艺术中心创始人
Susanna Yang