“瞬间的邂逅” “An Encounter” 杨桦个展


 “An Encounter” Kristin Ng-Yang’ s Drawings & Prints Exhibition

Exhibition Date: 14 July – 31 August, 2018

Chinese contemporary artist Kristin Ng-Yang, is completing a PhD degree at the Centre of Visual Art in the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa after her graduate from Central Academy of Fine Arts in China in 1991.

Like a migratory bird, Kristin flies back and forth between China and South Africa every year and brings us a number of surprises with a diversity of artwork in different media. This exhibition has selected her charcoal drawings, lithography, watercolour, mono prints and photograph from 2013 to 2017.

As a migrant artist, Kristin’s artwork is borderless and distinctive, African and Chinese culture have inspired her art with multi-perspectives, yet her Chinese identity with different philosophy and culture has challenged her for being an artist in South-Africa.

Her Flying Bird & Fish Series express her deep feeling of longing for home and family as well as the frustration for the destiny of separation and short encounter in life. On the other hand, Kristin records the daily life in South Africa through her art as a calm dialogue between the home context and current “foreign” environment.

 

“瞬间的邂逅” 杨桦纸上作品展

展期 : 2018年7月14日– 8月 31日

旅居南非的中国艺术家杨桦,自1997年从央美油画系毕业后便前往南非生活,并在南非KwaZulu-Natal大学攻读视觉艺术博士学位。杨桦似候鸟般每年往返于南非与上海两地,并以两地作为生活背景,创作了一系列探索女性内心情感与反映现实生活的作品。杨桦的创作是多元化的,她的作品已经不再受语言与国家的界定和束缚。本次展览集中展出了杨桦2013-2017年间的部分纸上作品,其中包括了炭笔素描,独版水彩画,铜版画以及摄影作品。

作为一位移民艺术家,中非两种完全不同的文化及生活经历给予了杨桦独特的创作素材和灵感,同时也给她在南非的艺术家生涯带来了挑战。艺术家寄情于飞鸟和鱼,将自己对家乡及亲人的思念与爱,化作了一张张充满着戏剧张力和饱含激情的摄影作品;与此同时,她又能以一位局外者的身份冷静而客观地记录着在异乡他国的日常生活。细细品味杨桦的作品,能够感悟到人生的多变不可测以及可遇而不可求的情感。