“Small Is Beautiful” will be opened at Art Season Beijing on May 29, 2010. At the gallery’s invitation, a total of 19 artists from Asia will participate in the exhibition, with works spanning oil painting, artwork on paper, sculpture and photography.
 
Some of the participating artists are long oriented towards small-sized artworks and some created their works by chance. The starting point for the exhibits is that their dimensions, in principle, are less than one meter. By confining the “smallness” of the artworks, the vision of the viewers is all of a sudden transformed into a congenial landscape. Having gone through the reckless and unconstrained regeneration in contemporary art, we hope that this exhibition will sweep flippancy and tedium off their feet, and afford us a new visual experience.

Some of the participating artists use “small” artistic mediums to express their motif: Huixin reveals “cultural invasion” by toy-sized sculptures and in a jocular way; Panyue’s ‘Sagittarius” portrays an absurd stage play with dainty and detailed images; Zeng Suchai’s canvas dolls bring a breath of freshness; Li Zan and Chen Weiwei reflect their unique impression of social life through depicting fictitious characters; Li Zhiyin’s exquisite youth romance is fully embodied in her small dreamlike sculptures; Nano Warsono’s comic-strip-like pictorial narration triggers philosophical thoughts; while Takehiro Yoshimitsu expresses the prowess of “small” and the possibility that resides in fragility.

Some other artists have long used “smallness” as their artistic medium: Yang Xu’s small but meticulous sequences and repeated works convey his reflection of and persistence in painting; Shi Mohan’s wisdom of life is thoroughly depicted in small and exquisite images.

Some artists’ larger-scale works are usually the result of careful deliberation and systematic conception, while the smaller ones were created at will and the expression of their mindset and of what they felt at different stages of art production, which they recorded as fragments of artistic thinking. Images like these usually give people a special kind of affinity, as the works of Huang Yuncan, Jiang Chuan, Tian Han and Wan Zhenyu attest.

In addition, rendered in small canvases, Liu Weiwei’s “King’s” clamor, David Chan’s “Hybrid Society:, Yim Taekyu’s daydream-like ridicule, Zhang Chunying’s spiritual soliloquy and Wen Wen’s surreal scenes are instilled with more subtle meaning

“Small is Beautiful” is indicative of the artistic pursuit and appreciation of contemporary art, which, we hope, will bring you unique artistic enjoyment.