Opening Reception: Dec 6 2008, 3 pm

Beijing New Age Gallery, committed to discovering and introducing to the public young contemporary artists, is going to hold Zeng Qingguo’s Solo Exhibition entitled “Emotional Situation” on Dec. 6, 2008. 

The organic painted surface constructs an evasive and infinite space; the elegant and sober cold tones create an atmosphere of tranquility and shadowiness; the elegant and nimble elfins fly in silence, giving off an eerily brilliant light and leaving behind them shining traces of life. This is a unique world, familiar but also strange. The intangibility, the shadowiness, the tranquility, the dances of the elfins, and the pale traces of light all disturb the viewer’s heart. Here, when all his thoughts, moods and emotions are projected into natural existences, the viewer’s soul is purified, and he is able to share the feelings of these natural existences.

Resorting to the mood-creating techniques and artistic functions of traditional Chinese culture and adopting a microscopic perspective, the artist pursues a “world without me”, a “world with me”, and the perfect harmony between man and the universe. The harmonious coexistence of man and man, man and the natural substances is a desired goal of modern society. Perhaps, a life of “inaction”, simplicity and tranquility has become the dream of modern man. In his self-created world of moods, man flies, meditates and lives like those dancing elfins, experiencing the unique pursuits and feelings of contemporary man as well as contemporary life.