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Auspicious Beasts and Three Marks
by Longmen Art Projects
Location: Longmen Art Projects
Artist(s): HUANG Zhi Yang
Date: 11 Oct - 30 Nov 2013

Shanghai Longmen Art Projects is pleased to announce a special solo exhibition as part of celebrating our 3-year anniversary and relocation. Auspicious Beasts and Three Marks – Exhibition of 2013 Huang Zhiyang Sculptures and Paintings will integrate the artist’s Auspicious Beasts sculptures and Three Marks series of colored ink on silk paintings.

The Three Marks series were developed over several years and represents Huang Zhiyang’s much more minimalistic approach with the ink on Chinese paper & silk series. Huang Zhiyang takes advantage of the translucent property of Chinese paper & silk to stack the marks onto one another through separate layers through traditional Chinese mounting techniques. This method not only gives these paintings visual depth but also an illusion of movement. Huang discovered that even using such traditional and old-fashioned materials, he is still able to create a very contemporary artwork. According to him, “Three Marks represents the origin of life, it is a representation of the body and soul, figurative and non-figurative, the movement of life through time and space; an inter-dimensional magnetic field, rippled by the frequencies of life”. In his new works, he incorporates the torrent of delicate and intricate strokes to further investigate the development of Three Marks, and branching off into four distinct forms: Wandering and Gathering, Shimmering Water, Mountain Spirits, and Matrix. Overall, Three Marks takes on a more mature and complete form in spatial arrangement, organization and symbolism. 

Our presentation of Auspicious Beasts and Three Marks gives further credit to the robustness of Huang Zhiyang’s creative ability, as well as a testament of Huang Zhiyang’s artistic exploration and introspection. The flaming scales of the Auspicious Beasts calls forth the intrinsic elements contained in the Three Marks series, and are a three-dimensional representation of Huang Zhiyang’s original artistic creation. When these two series are presented as one, we can also sense the rhythm contained in Huang Zhiyang’s artistic life force.

“Huang Zhiyang’s art is about growth, reflecting his adoration towards nature and life through his creations and subjects. His art also explores the future of traditional values through his technique and artistic language, and it is precisely within his unique expressive and stylistic language through which he realizes his own potential. In viewing his surrounding environment as a world that is growing enables his art to be a part of that growing world, and constantly supplies us with new surprises within the realm of visual space”.
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Gao Ling, 2012

Courtesy of Longmen Art Projects

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