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Tokyo Gallery + BTAP announces "Supereme Purity", a solo exhibition of Wu Qiang's traditional Chinese painting. At this exhibition, the artist's second solo show with our gallery after the exhibition at BTAP last year, Wu Qiang presents forty-eight landscape paintings.
Wu Qiang, whose courtesy name is Runsong, was born in Changting, Fujian province in 1977, at his ancestral home of Putian, Fujian.
Wu graduated from the Traditional Chinese Painting Department of the China Academy of Art in 2000 with a bachelor's degree in landscape painting. His graduation work, "Cloudy Cliffs," won the award of Excellence. This work has been added to the school's permanent collection, in addition to winning him the Congli scholarship. In 2003, his work, "Empty Mountain after the Rain," joined the second National Exhibition for Traditional Chinese Paintings, and won the award of Excellence. In 2005, he graduated with a Master's degree in landscape painting from the Traditional Chinese Painting Department of the China Academy of Art. Wu is currently a lecturer at the Arts College of Zhejiang University.
Wu Qiang's ink paintings feature a steadfast yet delicate style, with a serene and profound artistic mood, while his colorful paintings boast scrupulous brushwork, archaic colors, and subtle layers of transformation. He spares no effort in evoking a traditional range of effects and charm in his works - specifically his brush and ink techniques, his application of technical formulas, and his sense for pictorial composition. He focused on Chinese painting traditions during his seven years at the China Academy of Art in pursuit of an aesthetic oriented around the "State of Being" and "State of Non-being" that flourished in the Song and Yuan dynasties.
In his works, he places great store by the effective evocation of artistic moods, but there are few metaphors of specific images or annotations to explain the meanings of his paintings. While he is innovative, Wu does not seek to deliberately reinvent traditional painting techniques; instead, his aesthetic preferences and "ideal state" are conveyed through objective depictions. The elegance and solitude conveyed by the works in this exhibition, such as "Distant Spring Mountain" and Sunrise at White Cloud Mountain," seem to be entirely at odds with today's frivolous society, and express "the solitude and helplessness of a modern painter." As Mei Hepu says, "the solitude of a painter is an inescapable condition. It is something that can only be clarified or conveyed in one's own mind, and resists being shared with others through language. I think the ability to endure this solitude, however, constitutes a sort of ideal happiness."
Tokyo Gallery + BTAP cordially invites you to come and appreciate Wu Qiang's world of serenity, remoteness and solitude.
Wu Qiang, whose courtesy name is Runsong, was born in Changting, Fujian province in 1977, at his ancestral home of Putian, Fujian.
Wu graduated from the Traditional Chinese Painting Department of the China Academy of Art in 2000 with a bachelor's degree in landscape painting. His graduation work, "Cloudy Cliffs," won the award of Excellence. This work has been added to the school's permanent collection, in addition to winning him the Congli scholarship. In 2003, his work, "Empty Mountain after the Rain," joined the second National Exhibition for Traditional Chinese Paintings, and won the award of Excellence. In 2005, he graduated with a Master's degree in landscape painting from the Traditional Chinese Painting Department of the China Academy of Art. Wu is currently a lecturer at the Arts College of Zhejiang University.
Wu Qiang's ink paintings feature a steadfast yet delicate style, with a serene and profound artistic mood, while his colorful paintings boast scrupulous brushwork, archaic colors, and subtle layers of transformation. He spares no effort in evoking a traditional range of effects and charm in his works - specifically his brush and ink techniques, his application of technical formulas, and his sense for pictorial composition. He focused on Chinese painting traditions during his seven years at the China Academy of Art in pursuit of an aesthetic oriented around the "State of Being" and "State of Non-being" that flourished in the Song and Yuan dynasties.
In his works, he places great store by the effective evocation of artistic moods, but there are few metaphors of specific images or annotations to explain the meanings of his paintings. While he is innovative, Wu does not seek to deliberately reinvent traditional painting techniques; instead, his aesthetic preferences and "ideal state" are conveyed through objective depictions. The elegance and solitude conveyed by the works in this exhibition, such as "Distant Spring Mountain" and Sunrise at White Cloud Mountain," seem to be entirely at odds with today's frivolous society, and express "the solitude and helplessness of a modern painter." As Mei Hepu says, "the solitude of a painter is an inescapable condition. It is something that can only be clarified or conveyed in one's own mind, and resists being shared with others through language. I think the ability to endure this solitude, however, constitutes a sort of ideal happiness."
Tokyo Gallery + BTAP cordially invites you to come and appreciate Wu Qiang's world of serenity, remoteness and solitude.
Schedule | Feb 18 (Wed) 2009-Mar 14 (Sat) 2009 Opening Hours Information
Opening Reception Feb 18 (Wed) 2009 18:00 - 20:00 | ||||
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Venue | Tokyo Gallery + BTAP http://www.tokyo-gallery.com/  | ||||
| Location | 7F, 8-10-5 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061 | ||||
| Access | 4 minute walk from the Ginza exit of JR Shimbashi Station. 5 minute walk from exit A3 at Ginza Station on the Ginza, Hibiya and Marunouchi lines. 5 minute walk from exit 5 at Shiodome Station on the Toei Oedo or Yurikamome line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-3571-1808 | ||||
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