Why do we paint? Sensation, that is what we paint!

When ancient people started to paint, they went on to create pictographic scripts. Then painting went beyond its pictorial and narrative functions and, in its transition from sensory stimuli to that of the nervous system, it empowered the brain to think logically. Words and languages are the most universal symbolic systems but painting expresses the nature of perceptible substances and matters.

The logic of sensation is a beam of light and what we need at the bottom of our heart; it helps to guide us in this chaotic world. Roland Barthes’s conclusion about visual objects is that "I see, I feel, hence I notice, I observe and I think".

The works of the four artists featured in Art Season’s current exhibition express their unique sensations being at ease. However, never have they been satisfied with brush as the medium, and their works exhibit multi-sensory views.

The works of these artists at this exhibition do not connect you directly to the theme. So well versed in artistic experiment, they put on the easel the essence of their imaginative portrayal, which has been engraved upon their mind before the act of painting commences. The opposition between the visual objects and their visualizations damps the complexity and produces images that could not have been pictured by the visual senses. This gives the typical analogical art of painting multiple meanings and helps you see the spirituality of the age.

Only when are we face to face with the canvas can we escape from the trivialities and conventionalities of life.

Only when are we equipped with the courage to send the Curiosity spacecraft can we become involved in major contemporary events – that calls for 2500 million dollars.

The artist paints his ideas. More importantly, only when you step out of the canvas, with your numbed senses, can you save yourself..

Excerpt from <The Logic of Sensation>,Chatelet

Artists:

Li Xinjian, Lan Tianlu, He Jia, Lan Yi