“Chinese Elegance” Group Exhibition “知性与美” 徐志刚，王笑今，郝萍群展

“Chinese Elegance” Group Exhibition

Exhibition Date: 3 February – 15 March, 2018

To Celebrate the approaching Chinese New Year, this group exhibition presents oil paintings of traditional Chinese intellectual females from three artists – Xu Zhigang, Wang Xiaojin and Haoping, who were born in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s in China.

Artist Xu Zhigang uses soft warm tones through yellowish dim light, attempting to lead the audience to a journey into the past days during the 20’s and the 30’s of last century in Shanghai. His paintings aims to arouse this city’s memory and to visualise the elegance of Shanghai ladies with delicate portraits in Qipao from various social background and status at that time. His brushstrokes mixed with modern abstract and figurative skills demonstrate true emotions and characteristics of Shanghai ladies and their city.

Artist Wang Xiaojin experiments with all the different skills to scratch the surface of tremendous civilization of China. His delicate paintings are showing the Chinese ladies from late Qing Dynasty in both realistic and more expressionistic approaches by exaggerating their traditional features. The vibrant colours as well as the elegance of those females from his works will bring you the joy and will strike a chord with the viewers.

Artist Haoping is from Confucious hometown and thus ancient Chinese philosophy of Taoism and Confucianism  inspire this emerging artist to a modern representation of ancient Chinese lifestyle, aesthetic values and spiritual freedom as well as the harmony of their co-existence with nature. In her poetic abstract oil paintings, you can find not only tranquility and poetry from Chinese Ink paintings, but also a vivid portrayal life as the artist dreams of in those bygone days.

“知性与美” 徐志刚，王笑今，郝萍群展

展期 : 2018年2月3日– 3月15日

本次群展为大家展现了分别出生于五零，六零和七零年代的三位中青年艺术家徐志刚、王笑今、郝萍的油画作品。他们都以油画为载体，融入了不同风格的中国传统绘画元素，分别描绘出了不同时代下中国女性所具有的独特气质与知性美。

徐志刚将西方的写实油画与中国传统水墨画的写意手法相结合，作品中所描绘的青砖，石拱门，穿旗袍的女子都是对吴侬软语一词的最佳阐释，再现了上世纪二三十年代的上海女性风貌，摩登优雅而又不失知性与大气。

来自于满洲里的艺术家王笑今则用了夸张变形的手法，大胆地将传统中国女子的五官及形象进行重新演绎。其作品中鲜明的色彩和温文尔雅的女子犹如诗歌般扣动着观众的心弦。灵动的线条与大胆的用色让传统审美之下的中国女子在具有知性美基调的同时增添了些许新古典主义的浪漫与现代气息。

出生于圣人孔子之乡的青年艺术家郝萍深受中国古代道教和儒家哲学思想影响，沿承了中国传统水墨中淡雅清新的着色，以抽象而富有东方诗意的写意方式描绘了中国古代知性女子宁静致远，崇尚自由的生活方式以及人与自然和谐共处的生活态度。