The Space Station will presents you the first solo exhibition of emerging artist Shang Chengxiang, this exhibition brings the last three years' latest work by this artist. With an attitude of density, prudence, and worrying, Shang records an " unrealistic desolate dream " deeply rooted in his heart, which he describes as " excel the limitation imposed by materials physically, a record so called to tremble your heart. "
In the evolution and conflict of the drawing language expressed from his exhibition, the artist shows an increasing confidence and explosion. He is been back to purely, originally way of expression constantly, the dense and confident stroke and absurd with fugitive image brings us a strong feeling of uncertainty yet cooling calm impression. The abandoned hope is intertwined with bitterly hopeless, the dream travels on a fast way to uncontainable devastation.
Shang Chengxiang records his world with gloomy lens, and analyses the hidden threat in daily life, he makes inexplicable conflict, and shows his great concern to future. His works are mainly result in two clues: one is an unsettled hope to future, which makes the suspension of people's mentality, and be able to cause the echo from the inner heart, this seemingly righteous energy is hardly to communicate with language. The other one is a keen cling to the past world, which reflects retain and tribute to the irresistible development of times. Shang Chengxiang puts it in this way: " there seems exists a power pushes me to think repeatedly, the role this intangible psychical power played couldn't be neglect in one's heart. What expels us to insist exploration constantly, and where can we find the vent out? The redemption power art delivers to cope with fragment and tragedy of reality were just like mirror that could reads soul, which reflects the isolation and fright of our mentality. "
" Ultimate of pursuit is illusion ", says Milan Kundera. Shang is sensitive to the connects of objects and mentality, he involves with usual yet unusual life, and on the trend of self imposed Spiritual law of attraction to do his creation, he firmly pursuits hope and dream, and collect lost yet perpetual love, and develops his unique way of artistic perception.