China News Service, July 21. On July 19, the solo exhibition of Chinese new ink artist Xu Hang "Painting a Dazzling World" opened at Beijing 5 House. This exhibition is the first exhibition of the immersive art pop-up exhibition project "Look and Talk" jointly initiated by 5 House and JM ART. The project planning invites one or more outstanding domestic and foreign artists to put their artworks on 5 House every two months. When the art exhibition is integrated into a larger living space, the four dimensions of viewing art, hearing art, talking about art, and knowing art will be used to display the charm of art works in a full range of scenes, allowing art to enter the audience into life.
Xu Hang, a new ink artist, has been creating contemporary new ink paintings since 2003, and has successively exhibited solo exhibitions at the Institute of Asian Art in Chicago, Today Art Museum in Beijing, Yabo Art Gallery in New York, and China Box Gallery in Oslo. The new ink works created by Xu Hang inherit or use traditional Chinese ink painting techniques and ideas, integrate open Western contemporary art, analyze the models of Chinese and Western paintings through style analysis, and actively practice to form a unique contemporary Chinese new ink language.
The exhibition exhibited more than 40 representative works of Xu Hang in recent years, including many of the latest large-scale works created during the first half of the epidemic. During the SARS period in 2003, Xu Hang started his new ink and wash creation. Holding this exhibition at this time is not only a concentrated presentation of Xu Hang’s latest exploration of ink and wash in recent years, but also an artist’s record, precipitation and experience of the current society. Reflection.
The curator of this exhibition is Xu Baicheng, who named the exhibition "Ukiyo-e". The reference to "Ukiyo-e" generally refers to genre paintings that lasted three hundred years in the Edo period. In ancient Chinese poems, "floating world" mostly refers to "the world of indeterminate people". Xu Hang's paintings have a strong interest in life, which he refined highly, just like traditional drama, although the movements are simple, but intriguing. Between the elegance and the vulgar, he formed his own unique taste. There is not only the vitality described by Qi Baishi, but also the leisurely detachment of Chen Hongshou's statues.
At the event site, critics said: Xu Hang's work gave us a chance to face ourselves, not only let us see the world, but also let us see our own place in it. His works enlighten us whether we can find the true meaning of life and life beyond vanity, through spiritual confusion? The all kinds and grotesques of contemporary society have been included in Xu Hang's paintings. He observes the era through ink and wash, and records for us a spiritual map that belongs to the present.
The exhibition will last until September 18.