Bangkok--Sep 29--Gallery 55
"Meditation" @ "City Horizon" A solo Exhibition, by Jiang Zhenggen (b. China, 1958)
19th October - 29th November, 2004
This new exhibition from Shanghai consists of three stories: "MEDITATION ON GREY"; "MEDITATION ON WHITE" & "CITY HORIZON".
The development in the city of Shanghai in recent years has been
tremendous. The colourful skyline of the city now has become a hot-spot for tourists from both home & abroad. The life of the ordinany people has been transformed to a point that everyone is lost somewhere in-between. Artist Jiang is a locally born & raised veteran. He has been an active force both on the art scene & in educational field, popular with his landscape paintings on chinese rice paper with ink & colour. For the past few years, his art has turned to abstraction, while life to meditation. His studio now is full of the smell of incense. Buddism books & Budda relics & sculptures are all over the place, & a Chinese clay tea pot is never empty with Wooloong tea. "My life has come to a point like many that I have to meditate to find my peace of mind," Jiang confessed, "I feel there is a vacuum somewhere inside which I need to fill up with something".
"I can't decribe what exactly," the artist contined, "that's why I paint it onto the board & hopefully the viewers can tell me what I was looking
for."
Among his 20 simple, quiet & refined abstract works on show, viewers may feel or share the sense of desperatation living a fast-growing modern
metropolis for the lost world of tradition & hope for the unknown future,
and yet, the most important, the colourful skylines of the present. Can we
really find our souls in those abstract art works?! End.
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