Tang Gallery Hosts " The Naked Truth "

Monday, 29 May 2006 12:06

Bangkok, Thailand - Chengdu, capital of Sichuan Province, is one of China's more important industrial bases.  Famed as "Heavenly Land”, its production resources vary from huge machinery constructions such as airplanes, seamless-steel tubes, and metal products to agricultural as peanuts, sesame seeds, cotton, sugarcanes etc.  However, because of today’s proliferation of highly modernized ideals and situations in main cities all over Mainland China, Chengdu has also re-invented itself in this process as a city of urban cultural appeals and conditions amidst the scenic mountainous surroundings.

This exhibition presents six Chengdu artists who live and work in the city, where the artistic community has been consistently nurturing a deepening root of artistic development away from the other often-written art locales such as those in Beijing, Shanghai or in the Southern coast of Guangzhou.  In He DuoLing, Zhou ChunYa, Zhao NengZhi, Guo Jin, Guo Wei and Yang Mian, they represent some of the most prominent artists from the city.  Though from both generations, these six artists are committed in their creative stride, working between the poles of figurative narration and realist conceptualism in contemporary painting.

The Naked Truth belies the intent to mirror the features or characteristics of the painterly matter as an entity as opposed to being a ‘representation’.  Artists in this exhibition use rigorous techniques to create work that simultaneously direct attention and deflect interpretation — to engage in surface aesthetics with multi-faceted angular compositions and forms to create a personal aesthetical meaning.

Also, instead of reacting to, or commenting on, turbulent societal and economic changes that have taken place in the larger aspect of Mainland China – which is the most self-evident, if rather simplistic route – the exhibition hopes to capture the transience of such turbulence and the momentary nature of change.

Though there are wide implications that most Chinese Contemporary art has only been to call attention to the changing synthesis in open and rapid urbanization within China from its past, it is unfair to generalize and ignore the aesthetical and conceptual freedom Chinese artists have today. Exhibition from 7 June until 1 July, 2006.

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