by Nou Gallery Location: Nou Gallery
Artist(s): MENG Yang Yang
Date: 15 Sep - 28 Oct 2012
You can not tell the boundary of time and space in Meng Yang Yang's artwork, there is magic even devil air in his paintings, which seems over-exaggerated while with strong sense of drama. The figures and structures in his paintings are vague expressed in their faces, movements, even genders, but captured viewers by strong color contrast. This common traits represented in his artworks are the request for their very identification, their existence. The color of human sense and reasonability doesn't matter at all at this very moment, the bold-brush use of color absorb viewers intensively.
People desire to get close to themselves, however, always lost under their masks as they attend to penetrate into society while are enivitably trapped into cage of loneliness. Yang Yang's stroke try to figure out souls finding their meaning of existence while were stuck into stressful changing society helplessly and desperately. In his fable -like paintings, caricature tone try to escape from chaotic reality into a peaceful world of mind.