Recently, the "Pear Blossom White - Yan Bing Solo Exhibition" hosted by the Guangdong Museum of Art, with Wang Shaoqiang, director of the Guangdong Museum of Art as the chief curator, and Shen Ruijun as the curator, was exhibited at the Guangdong Museum of Art. Yan Bing's creation is detached from the most popular discussion of digitalization, information, and technology, and returns to the basics to find the original self from the land, grass and trees, and the objects he depicts become mysterious and poetic because of his unique vision.
"Pear Blossoms Are White - Yan Bing Solo Exhibition" was recently exhibited in Hall 7 of the Guangdong Museum of Art.
The series of works in this exhibition originated from a journey back home by Yan Bing in 2021. By revisiting past experiences, Yan Bing hopes to find a new starting point. After the journey, Yan Bing said: "The feelings on the road and my own experience are intertwined, some things have deepened, some things have gone away, and all this takes longer to manifest." But the turn and openness of the landscape, as well as the observed relationship between human life and nature, still gave me a sudden feeling. "Rooted in the yellow land of her hometown, the work she once worked in the yellow land, and the thinking and feeling brought about by the conflict with the memory of her hometown in the strange city, yan Bing's confidence in facing the world and the way she touched the world."
"Wasteland" oil on canvas 60×270cm.
Yan Bing's works are closely related to his growth experience, and his eyes are focused on the ordinary things that are often overlooked in the big environment - deserts, grasses, trees, apricot blossoms... He quietly and honestly touches the texture and dimension of these objects, reshapes the shape of objects and outlines the picture with the emotions and experiences in life, and creates a unique aesthetic that belongs to Yan Bing's perspective.
In the painting, Yan Bing depicts soft light, such as the warm gaze he uses when examining his hometown, and the tones used in the painting are moderates extracted from the loess soil. Regardless of the size of the frame, Yan Bing uses a medium pen, which has a feel between the strokes, and at the same time is simple and chaotic, just right.
White Bowl, oil on canvas, 70×70cm.
His subject matter is also plain, with apricot blossoms and pear blossoms being scenes he often saw in his early life, and the relationship between land and man by depicting ravines. In addition, he shows the desert landscape through the photos he takes along the way, and the background of the picture uses a flat and distant perspective, placing the foreground in a reasonable but not specific scene, creating a psychological space withdrawn from reality. The interplay of memories, history, natural time and current experience results in a psychological mirror image of Yan Bing's life perception.
Old Apricot Blossom oil on canvas 50×40cm.
White Flower, oil on canvas, 50×40cm.
The "Pear Blossom White – Yan Bing Solo Exhibition", which was exhibited in Space 7, creates a quiet space independent of the chaotic world. Unlike the bright and jumpy color concerto, Yan Bing's works are gaze-chilling, quiet, and at the same time distant and poetic. The amount of information in Yan Bing's works is generally relatively small, and what gives weight to the works is the labor, experience and perception behind the artist, who releases feelings in moderation in his works, neither nostalgic nor compassionate. Perhaps Yan Bing's world is incompatible with the ever-changing reality, but in these works that exude "ancient meaning" and "quietness", he tells the deep thinking of the relationship between his individual experience and the current living world.
The exhibition will be on view until April 22, 2022.
Written by: Nandu reporter Zhou Peiwen Intern Zhou Zhengying Correspondent Liu Dani
Image courtesy of Guangdong Museum of Art