by Leo Gallery Location: Leo Gallery
Artist(s): PENG Si
Date: 4 Nov 2011 - 29 Jan 2012
Leo Gallery proudly presents Realm, a solo exhibition for Peng Si, a 2004 graduate of the prestigious Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing.
Dr Richard Shusterman, Professor of Philosophy at Florida Atlantic University, describes Peng Si’s works as “art that reveals fullness in emptiness and motion in stillness.” Indeed, the young painter succeeds at communicating implied meaning in the presence of absence. Though his images appear austere, the beauty of his world gently embraces, rather than arresting the viewer with a bold call for attention. Incredible, romantic renditions of melancholic majesty and bucolic tranquility make up a collection of works that reveal the solitary interior life of the artist. There exists a pride in simplicity and focus, realizing the allure of practiced restraint.