Huang He was first recognized in the opening ceremony of an exhibition, He gave me the initial impression is that the sun slightly melancholy temperament fashion big boy image. The second time I saw him was in his studio, Studio is located as a small farm yard in the suburbs of Beijing. House light shone from the window is not so bright, as his paintings. At this huge city, this is a quiet corner, Huang He seems to see him fame and fortune in the secular state, but inoffensive say a silent heart of the world on canvas appeal.

Huang He painting is very special, though still belong to the scope of easel painting, but more precisely, it should be a special media painting, namely as a medium with barbed wire, covered with barbed wire on top of the canvas. Speaking of barbed wire, people usually think of the shackles of the free tools, such as battlefields, prisons, cannot see the head walls and border lines. Indeed, the history of the invention of barbed wire, already is widely used in military and defense; Most of the works of the Huang He River in the past to express the pain of humanity itself brings bondage, which is its use of this unique medium root.

Through the barbed wire, one child's face, eyes open or depressed people feel depressed eyes, choking, or close their eyes to escape the world. He was very attentive to those depicting the faces, but more like used consciously or unconsciously in the way of a silent writing autobiography. On the surface, he will be the period of the artist's spiritual encounter, or the common experience of all are the Wanderers, but the deeper meaning is the essence of human alienation in modern society, our soul is enclosed in the cage. But when the busy everyday life, we are almost unaware of the existence of self only when misfortune comes, will feel the essence of modern society from people is so far away. The creative process makes the Huang He River to get a rare experience, but it is the face of the city to experience a heart desolate. His experience and his experience in this life are surprisingly similar, when he alone in this context downtown when the city seems nothing to do with him.

Of course, the painting is not an act of the Huang He River, the media's choice and his style and subject matter, are hidden in the heart of suffering memory. His screen contains a person's bitter fate and frustration traces. People can see what humanity struggling from the painting, but eventually his own, that the spirit of modern urban situation, in the materialistic world, looking for a quiet oasis in the desert of the mind. It all comes from his personal experience, his record in a special way with his depression lingered on the fate of the journey.

Like many artists, like the Huang He River, also has a dual personality anguish experienced, survival in the face of an intervening environment that does not belong to him, he was imprisoned in a cage into the spirit of self-enclosed. Huang He painted for us a pessimistic conclusion, but he has not a pessimist. Because his paintings also reflect his poetic experience of life, but this kind of poetry from the heart gush with endless gloomy sadness.
- Hass

*image (left)
courtesy of the artist and Force Gallery