The Beijing Winter Olympics will begin, and the "Sheng Sheng- Yang Gang Art Exhibition" sponsored by the Shenzhen Art Museum, the Beijing Artists Association and the Beijing Academy of Painting was recently exhibited at the Shenzhen Art Museum. The exhibition takes the theme of the Winter Olympics as the starting point, and displays a total of 97 works of ink, sketching and calligraphy created by Yang Gang from 2000 to 2018. The exhibition has also been included in the "Meet in Beijing" Olympic Cultural Festival and the 22nd "Meet in Beijing" International Art Festival, which will become a dynamic, beautiful and unlimited scenery in the cultural and artistic feast during the Beijing Winter Olympics.
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Yang Gang (1946-2019) is a national first-class artist at the Beijing Academy of Painting and a member of the China Artists Association. In 1978, he was admitted to the first postgraduate class of the Chinese Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, and studied Chinese painting under the guidance of Ye Qianyu, Jiang Zhaohe, Li Keyan, Li Kuchan, Liu Lingcang, Lu Shen and Zhou Sicong. After graduating in 1981, he was assigned to work at the Beijing Academy of Painting. He is good at ink painting, sketching, oil painting, brushwork, etc., and has held exhibitions in Hong Kong, Spain, Germany and other places.
Yang Gang
Yang Gang loved painting and sports all his life, learned to ride a horse in the grasslands of Inner Mongolia, and often went to the Kunming Lake in the Summer Palace to swim after returning to Beijing, and his love of sports was also one of the reasons why he paid special attention to the Winter Olympics. Since 2000, he has created a large number of Winter Olympic-themed works on the scenes of the competition on television, using brushes, markers, or signature pens and ballpoint pens on various types of paper, drawing a variety of sketches and ink paintings. He likes the sense of scene of sketching, but also emphasizes the fun of the line, and sketching has become a great pleasure in his artistic life.
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With solid Chinese and Western painting techniques and keen insight, coupled with the integration of calligraphy pen and linear experience, these Winter Olympic works combine sketching with calligraphy pens and image modeling, integrate modern abstraction and compositional elements, the artistic image is vivid and vivid, the painted objects have both a fleeting sense of presence and impact, and a sculptural sense of volume and eternity, realizing the contradiction and unity of "speed" and "strength" in a few strokes, reflecting the rhythm of life and the endless Olympic spirit. Because of its extraordinary expressiveness, Yang Gang's Winter Olympic-themed works have become the official publicity image of the global collection of public art for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
Ice Hockey (2018)
Yang Gang's lifelong pursuit of artistic freedom has allowed him to continuously absorb rich nutrients to create a new style and appearance. He said: "When I am free, I often leave the light car and seek my own unfreedom, and then through continuous efforts to achieve new freedom. For example, after entering the Beijing Academy of Painting, he began to learn ink painting from the Gongbi Painting Class, and learned to carve stones on the cliffs of Tieshan Mountain, and the calligraphy and ink state promoted each other. He began practicing ink elephants in the 1990s, and his attention to modern Japanese and Korean calligraphy, including ink elephant school and word-less calligraphy, also inspired him to explore expressive ink painting and experimental ink paintings.
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According to the organizers, the title of this exhibition "Sheng Sheng" is taken from the "Zhou Yi Zhi Ci" in "The Meaning of Birth is Easy", and the great virtue of life is to make everything in the world live endlessly, and life is also to constantly create changes for the pursuit of freedom. "The title is like the Olympic spirit we advocate, and like Yang Gang's artistic life, he has been constantly innovating, changing, exploring and challenging different art forms and styles along the way." Wu Hongliang, president of the Beijing Academy of Painting, said.
Exhibition posters
"Yang Gang's art has a unique taste, this kind of taste is not what people call pen and ink, nor is it the form or other that people often say, but the freedom that belongs to his heart." Chen Lusheng, deputy director of the Art Theory Committee of the China Artists Association and artistic director of the Shenzhen Art Museum, expects that on the occasion of the upcoming opening of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, some of Yang Gang's winter sports and Olympic competition works will be selected, so that the audience can understand and recognize Yang Gang's art, and use these arts with life and passion to popularize the Olympic spirit, "not only higher, faster, stronger, more united, but also more artistic."
The exhibition will run until February 15.
[Reporter] Yang Yi
【Photo】Courtesy of the organizer
【Author】 Yang Yi
【Source】 Southern Press Media Group South + client