Check out Our Beijing Featured Artists:
Artist Li Yongfei:
"When I paint I feel, that this experience has come to me before, but
from where, I do not know," Li Yongfei says of his intuitive approach
to painting. It may be de ja vous that Li Yongfei feels, but what is
transmitted through his paintings is a universal energy alluding to
hidden truths and timeless philosophy. Li Yongfei works both in the
classical Chinese painting style, using ink and water on paper, and in
his very own contemporary style, bringing layer upon layer of water,
ink, oil and metal. Through his appraoch the paintings acheive
timeless visual qualities, expressing the idea that life in the
present moments holds infinite familiarity with past. Ideas from the
ancient texts of the Dao De Jing inspire Li Yongfei’s work immensely,
and inform the natural and varied patterns of his brushstokes.
Artist Yang Xinguang:
Yang Xinguang is a sculptor and performance artist who alters the
physical characters of natural objects with the conceptual scheme of
returning to the beginning of time, a time with only the earthly
essence from which all life comes exists. His work raises to question
the relationship between two different worlds, mankind’s civilization
and the natural world. "Which is stronger, mankind or the earth?"
asks Yang Xinguang. In his mind he envisions a place at the beginning
of time before man, filled with mountains, trees, stones, streams.
Cutting large riverbed stones from roughly into awkward blocks, Yang
Xinguang attempts to bring the stone to it’s original state, it’s
condition before time has ground it into smooth roundness. "At birth
we are all very unique, and slowly, over time we are shaped by society
into common form." Yang Xinguang does not consider his works
sculpture, but rather natural materials expressing their inherent
qualities.
