He Libin’s solo exhibition:A Walker’s Diary

Exhibition Duration:April 2th to 23th
Exhibition opening:April 2,Wed, 8:00pm
Curator:Guan Yuda
Academic Host:Luo Fei

He Libin is a young artist and art teacher in Yunnan Art Institute. He has been dedicated into art over 16 years. Seriously, he is consideration about society and human values through his artist perspective. He has been invited to Norway DongXi gallery as an artist in residence in 2006.

As an artist, we live in this world but not belong to it. Today, the world became to busy and mass. When people quit from various businesses, go to the desert where anybody isn’t. Mankind gained the chance to contemplate the eternity and truth. Meanwhile, he started to considerate his values, the world where he has been live, the situation what the human is facing today. In the duration of contemplation, the heart and soul has been opened and released. The heart became peaceful.

He Libin started a project together with local scholars and TCG Nordica in Kunming. It is to make a desert within our living space with mixed drawing, picture, characters, sound and other materials; to create a field fulfilled openness, wildness, peacefulness. The aim is to describe the asperity situation that the individually felt about loneliness and expecting, to stimulate the concerning about the relationship between the individually and surrounding; the conflict of society and human nature; the interfering of the mankind and nature etc.

As the first exhibition, it is mainly to show his art review from the past 16 years. In the following shows are going to hold in different part of China. The idea is impacting the reflection of audience through his growing series under different subjects.

Related texts in this exhibition:
CV of He Libin
Some comments about He Libin’s arts
Nostalgia and Walking in the Field(By Guan Yuda)

Disappering Image

We welcome our audience to a new exhibition! Xia Xiuhua will show here works until the 15th of February, over the Spring Festival.
Read Professor Yidan Ma’s introduction of Xia Xiuhua and her art:

Foreword

I remember when I first saw the oil paintings of Xia Xiuhua. It was eight years ago, that evening when I passed by Kunming City. In the rented room I saw powerful paintings, which was difficult to relate to the smiling, young girl from the Yunnan province. Studying design and character is always perceptual and sincere in my impression; together with the art works it fulfilled the power. The young lady running under the blurred sunlight impressed me in each of the colorful paintings.
Later, Xia Xiuhua became a Master Student of mine. She still hasn’t forgotten this kind of running-style on the painting cloth, in spite of the extremely busy period of studying for the master curriculum.

The works of Xia Xiuhua has an intense symbolic meaning. It is easy to see the influences from the impressionists during the later European period – like Gaugin and van Gogh – both in the old series of colorful “Running”, and in the new series of elegant simplicity called “Disappearing Images”.

There are also expressions of her personal moods in the works. Especially, we can feel a poetic sentimental connotation revealed in a natural way. It was produced when modern conception met with regional culture.
The works of Xia Xiuhua show a sensitive, beautiful and light sorrowfulness, which particularly belongs to female artists. Let’s regard it as a new kind of language and a portrayal of the mind.

Professor Yidan Ma,
Southwest University, Fine Art School, in Chongqing