Art Central 2017 Preview

 

The Dragon Year Gallery has selected three artists Fang Zhi Yong(b.1980);  Wang Min(b.1986);  Li Liang(b.1985) to represent at Art Central.  because we believe they demonstrate the range of work we see in young artists today in China.

 

 

 

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Fang Zhi Yong, a graduate of Central Academy of Art in Beijing, has demonstrated a more conceptual approach to his work. Past focus has been on using natural forms in a visual manner and expressing sound as the mind might capture its imagery. His most recent works have incorporated jigsaw puzzles to explore the unifying and dividing energies in human social orders. He is seeking to use visual metaphor to express the forces that push and pull on groups and cultures to bring them together or drive them in varying transformational directions.

 

 

Double Happiness
Fang Zhi Yong
100x130cm
Mixed Media
2014

 

Installation View: The Smog of Winter
Fang Zhi Yong
75x84x25cm
2016

 

Safeness
Fang Zhi Yong
110x90cm
Mixed Media
2016

 

Block B,  1230  Happiness Road,
Fang Zhi Yong
30x30x120cm
Mixed Media
2016

 

 

 

 

 

Wang Min comes from South China Normal University in Guangzhou. Her images of people are haunting and have a powerful engagement with young Chinese people. Her interest in genetic diversity explores what future generations might look like as we begin to modify our own genetic code. The faces and images are both simple and yet demonstrate great subtlety. If one looks closely at her imaginary subject’s hair, the mountains and trees of a traditional Chinese painting begin to become clear. She makes great use of what at first appear to be background patterns to express complexity whilst keeping the depictions of people quite straight forward. Most prominent in Wang Min’s pieces are the ever present eyes that seem to gaze upon its viewers from many angles.

 

 

V.Host
Wang Min
130x170cm
Acrylic on Canvas
2013

 

 

V.6
Wang Min
130x190cm
Acrylic on Canvas
2013

 

 

V.17
Wang Min
70x110cm
Acrylic on Canvas
2015

 

 

 

 

 

Li Liang, also a graduate of Central Academy of Art in Beijing, proceeds in a different direction. We have dubbed his works, and that of some other young artists, New Eastern Magical Realism. We have borrowed this term from the Latin American movement of fiction called Magical Realism. Magical realism presents events in the spiritual or psychological world to be equal to those in the real world. Li’s works focus on people and the imaginings in their minds. Both the inner thoughts and the people themselves are presented with equivalency.

 

 

The Dream Is Still There
Li Liang
120×150 cm
Oil on Canvas
2017

 

 

 

Breaking Dreams
Li Liang
120×150 cm
Oil on Canvas
2013

 

 

 

Never Forget
Li Liang
120×70 cm
Oil on Canvas
2017