“飞鸟与鱼” 艺术家杨桦个展


Bird and Fish — Kristin NG-Yang Solo Exhibition

Exhibition Date: 10 December, 20165 January, 2017

 

This exhibition covers her latest watercolor, video, photography, drawing and oil painting, which are inspired from a Chinese song in which a bird falls in love with a fish. The suspended fish/birds painted on plexiglass alluding to the ephemeral encounter and the impossibility in life.

As a migrant artist, her Chinese identity with different philosophy and culture also challenges her for being an artist in South-Africa. Kristin’s works reflect on life’s journey into inevitable oblivion as well as being confronted with choices which is subject to fate, obliged to accept or to resist, in the process of learning about oneself and others.

Kristin’s video creation contains music and live performance along with Chinese instrument Guzheng and African Djembe drum in collision and fusion that is both strange and yet familiar. This combination conveys a strong sense of unworldliness and meditation in sounds that shift between the realms and vibrations of both birds and fish.

 

“飞鸟与鱼” 艺术家杨桦个展

展期: 2016年12月10日–2017年1月5日

 

1991年毕业于中央美术学院的中国艺术家杨桦,已经在南非生活了十七年。现在正在攻读南非KwaZulu-Natal大学的视觉艺术博士学位。
 此次个展杨桦带来了她的最新水彩画、素描、油画、摄影及影像作品。灵感来自于一首关于一只鸟爱上一条鱼的中国歌曲。艺术家将有机玻璃制成的鱼和鸟悬浮在空中,暗喻了人生的短暂和诸多的不可能。

作为一名移民艺术家,拥有不同的身份和文化背景也为她在南非的艺术家生涯带来了挑战。杨桦的作品反映了在生命旅程中很多事是不可避免被遗忘的,同时还暗示着人的一生在做抉择时,有时不得不接受命运的安排。

杨桦的影像作品包含了音乐和现场表演,结合中国传统乐器古筝和非洲手鼓,并同时让非洲、中国和西方文化产生碰撞和融合,让此作品显得既陌生又熟悉。这种组合通过声音的转变和振动,使人感受到了一种脱俗的境界,并传达了鸟类和鱼类这两种生物跨界共存的理想世界。