Exhibition Title: Art & Beyond
Exhibiting Artists: Liu Fei, Liu Hong
OpeningĀ Cocktail: āØ17th MayĀ 2019, 6:30Ā – 9:30Ā pm
RSVP: shion@yanggallery.com.sg/ +6567218888
Exhibition Period: āØ2019.5.17Ā – 6.12
Venue: āØYang Gallery ā¢ SingaporeāØ581 Orchard Road, The Shopping Gallery Hilton #01-11, Singapore 238883
Foreword
Ā Ā Fresh from recent projects with LouisĀ VuittonĀ and luxury goods groupĀ Richemont, renowned female portraiture painter Liu Hong was born inĀ ShanāxiĀ Province in 1956, earning a major in Oil Painting from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. HerĀ mostrecentĀ work āLip Languageā portrays the role of consumerism and changing moral values among Chinese women.
The so-called social discourse refers to the situation that girls in the paintings are complete dominated by desires produced by consumerism andĀ spectacularisation, which is visually presented through desire-related symbols, that is, lips and its language. It reveals consumerism’s materialization towards human by lips-language representing sexuality and personality.
Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā LiuĀ FeiĀ is known for his bald girls with a strong revolutionary theme. The images these girls make an unforgettable impression. The artist’s means of expression is an exaggerated anti-aestheticism and the elements he uses are not taken from life.
Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā InĀ recent years, LiuĀ FeiĀ has reinvented landscape paintings and these works bring to mind feelings of nostalgia, reminding us of memories encapsulated in the stillness of time.Ā Chinese people’s love for mountains and rivers seems to be innate. From ancient and modern poetry, masters of calligraphy and painting have a passion for depicting famous mountains and rivers. My works are self-imagining to pay tribute to the classic works of predecessors, so that their works are presented in this era, and there is a sense of existence in past and present.
Liu Hong åč¹
Since 1980, Liu Hong’sĀ paintings have been shown in many large exhibitions, such as āNational Eight University Sketch Exhibitionā, āNational Youth Art Showā, āThe 6th National Art Exhibitionā, āModern Art Exhibition of Western Art Teamā, āChinese First Elaborate Canvas Exhibitionā, āChinese Canvas Exhibitionā, āModern Famous Painting Exhibitionā, Ā āChinese Modern Art For The Way of Middle-Level Womenā, āFirst Chinese Canvas Academic Exhibitionā.
Liu Fei åé£
For more than a decade LiuāØFeiĀ has createdĀ works that portray women during the red era with wide smile and shave heads.Ā His new series features stunning &Ā mysterious landscapes, invoking our memories of history and its influences in our modern world.
