2010 Beyond Reality

Beyond reality - Easel Art

Bao Zhong, Chen Daoqi, Chen Jian, Dou Rongjun, Liu Lingling, Lu Xiaoyi, Luo Fan, Mao Jin, Mao Yan, Pan Deng, Sun Daliang, Zhang Ying

Organizers: Sihe Fine Art Space

CONTENTS

Beyond reality - Easel Art Articla / Peng Lai 04

Painting 10

Bao Zhong 12

Chen Daoqi 16

Chen Jian 20

Dou Rongjun 24

Liu Lingling 28

Lu Xiaoyi 32

Luo Fan 36

Mao Jin 40

Mao Yan 44

Pan Deng 48

Sun Daliang 52

Zhang Ying 56

Curriculum Vitae 60

Beyond reality: Easel Art

Article/Peng Lai

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Allow me to start with Bao Zhong’s and Pan Deng’s works. The former’s works present an impression of twisting and bizarre from the magic combination of subtle spirit and cruel dream world. Recently, he has incorporated mirrors, faces, machines and crystal suspension ceilings into the motif, using his specific manipulation, or magic, to mismatch and deform these real things and convert them into spiritual mirror images. He endows mysterious and gloomy properties to them. When they seem to be disappearing from the black background, a sense of desolation and collapse would rise spontaneously. This may be the desolate nature under the appearance of the world the artist wants to reveal in the “messy and dark” places. In comparison, Pan Deng’s artistic temperament is direct and generous. His works are mostly related to images of world-end or destruction. There are two series of his works attracting a lot of attention: first of all, he describes the cultural symbols of the great persons, stars and public people, signaling the “dusk of idols” in the secular consumption era and the death of the spiritual pure land in expanded human desires; the other type use metaphors to show the human bodies dominated by desire. He uses broad drawing method to show gaudy and cruel pictures in the form of “mild violence”, which is rough but accurate as well.

Arguably, the artistic expression approaches of these two artists have nothing in common. Bao Zhong’s works come from internal search of soul, while Pan Deng’s works resort to the recognition of and irony to the external world. But there are something in common between them that the aesthetic effect of the spiritual features in their works, either the roundabout and feminine metaphor or the carefree and neat explosive force come from delicate description ——such “delicacy” is anything but using as much exquisite and in-place language as possible, but is about the interest in the dynamic implications and control over linguistic sensitivity. Therefore, although their works seems to have some connections with current trend in terms of the use of existing images and symbols, there is actually a big spacing between them.

Page 49:

Overlook

Oil on Canvas,

200cmx300cm, 2010

Stone, Stone. Take Me to the Heaven

Oil on Canvas,

160cmx200cm, 2009

Page 50:

The Smoking Lady

Oil on Canvas

120cmx150cm, 2008

Artists Curriculum Vitae

Pan Deng

Born 1964, Nanjing:

Solo Exhibition:

2007 "Animal Farm" Pan Deng Solo Exhibition, The Foundry Space, Shanghai

Group Exhibitions:

2010 "Antiblotio" Nanjing Art Community / Hongwan Art Museum

Casual Art Festival / Beijing Songzhuang / Sunshine International Art Museum

Made in Nanjing - 2010 Contemporary Exhibition / Shanghai New B Gallery

2010 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art / Nanjing Shangdong Contemporary Art Center

2009 Let's Play Together / Beijing 798 Soul Collection Art Gallery

"Community! Community!" / Beijing Songzhuang Art Center

Pebeo Nanjing Mufu Art District Spring Art Salon / Nanjing Qinghe Contemporary Art Museum

2008 "Red Land Contemporary Art Exhibition" / Beijing No.1 International Artbase

"Four, Three, Two, One - Four Artists Contemporary Art Exhibition" / Beijing Artist Village

2007 "99 Tents, 99 Dreams" / Beijing

"Fractal Image" - Contemporary Art Exhibition / Nanjing Museum

2005 "Disease: Our Art Today" / Nanjing Art Museum

2002 "Basking" - Nanjing Art Activity / Nanjing Datang Golden Island

1999 "One Hundred Years, One Hundred People, One Hundred Surnames" Contemporary Art Exhibition / Nanjing Normal University

1996 "Edge Sight" Artworks Exhibition / Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum, Nanjing

1986 "Basking" Nanjing Art Activity / Nanjing Xuanwu Lake Garden