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ORGANIZED by the Fine Arts College at Shanghai University and Shanghai Oil & Painting Institute, an exhibition focused on the experiment of contemporary ink-wash painting is on display until the end of this month. The exhibition features Wang Jieyin, Li Chao, Le Jian, Han Feng and Bai Ying — all local pioneers.
“Although the contents and subjects by the five artists vary at the exhibition, they all explore the urban condition or the implicative existence of ink-wash painting through a humanistic angle,” says Xu Mingsong, the academic director at the exhibition.
The highlight of the exhibition are the works created by Han Feng. For example, Han paints a plastic coffee cup named “Sunbucks Coffee” that largely resembles “Starbucks Coffee” on rice-paper. Or sometimes a Snoopy.
Obviously, the artist is not painting the urban ordinary life scene on the surface, but he fuses the concepts of pop art into the traditional realistic Chinese painting technique.
Han transforms the aesthetic taste and direction in the traditional ink-wash painting, and the calligraphy written with “Made in China” strengthens the irony — today the materialized society is assimilated by the values and direction of the West.
Another highlight is the ink-wash paintings created by Li Chao. The artist deconstructs tradition into geometric forms, but without real form.
Date: Through October 31. 10am-4pm. Closed on Mondays.
Venue: Shanghai Oil & Painting Institute
Address: 201 Jinzhu Rd
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