Exhibiting Artist: Liu Ruowang
Opening Reception: 27th September 2018, 3-6 pm
RSVP: +86 10 5762 3020 / beijing@yanggallery.info
Exhibition Period: 27th September –26th October 2018
Exhibition Venue: YANG GALLERY • Beijing 798
3rd Taoci Street, 798 Art District, no. 4 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100015
Foreword
伊甸园是人类堕落的开始，自此人类便在道德的滑梯上一路狂坠。直到今天，人类缺乏终极信仰、目光短浅，面对丰富的世界丧失了自己的判断力，无力抵抗来自欲望的诱惑，以谎言谋利，直到水是脏的、天是灰的、奶粉是有毒的——如此对比之下，伊甸园显得如此纯粹美好。那里也有来自毒蛇的诱惑，但人类还不至于堕落至斯。
在这一片道德的雾霾中，我相信艺术世界是一片相对纯粹的净土。在这个由想象力主宰的小宇宙里，人类可以把自己最真诚的一面毫无顾忌地表达出来，而不会对任何人造成伤害。这是美的开端，也是美的实践。在艺术世界里，让我们再见伊甸园。——刘若望
Shanxi province witnessed most of the historical events in ancient China and this influenced established contemporary artist Liu Ruowang while growing up. In Liu’s works, their vitality seem to conceal their greatness. Liu Ruowang deserted the burden of imitating just forms, but pursued a higher level of ‘expressiveness’ on the basis of being similar in spirits. Where did we come from? Where are we going? What’s the burden on us? How should we save our souls? These questions are all in Liu’s works. As a Chinese proverb goes: ‘peaches and plums do not have to talk, yet the world beats a path to them.’ (桃李不言,树下成溪)
The souls of these ancients enter into our consciousness and gradually, viewers can’t help feeling the purity of our roots and the power of thinking when looking at such works, which is exactly the highest level of art creation. Liu Ruowang, with his fantastical composition, establishes the image of the modern group and recovers a connection between people’s history and us.
About the Artist
Liu Ruowang is born in 1977, Jia County, Shanxi Province, China. He graduated from Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing in 2005 and one of his renowned most series ‘Mountains & the Sea’ was selected for ‘Bright Lights of the Academy’ exhibition at the Central Academy of Fine Art and awarded an honor for outstanding achievement.
Selected Exhibition Collection
