为何山水—— 孙晶 x 杨泳樑作品展

    “Shan Shui”, a symbolic expression of landscape in traditional Chinese painting, embodies the value and philosophy of traditional Chinese culture. Through observation and meditation, painters preserve both the likeness and inner spirit of landscape. Us, the viewers are thus able to dispense with the fetter of material forms, immerse in what the painter had seen and how they had felt.

    Artists keep introspecting and learning about the outside world through this mirror called “landscape”. It now scatters among the digital debris of our time, develops new possibilities, which reconciles the gap between the past the present, between Eastern and Western culture value. Guided by “Shan Shui”, artists Yang Yongliang and Sun Jing transform it and reconstruct their own narratives of our time.

    Yang Yongliang employs digital photocollage to build a mirage within an ink-stained world. Among the misty mountains, modern buildings reveal. A glimpse of bitter humor fuse within his romantic gesture as modernity and tradition collide. While in Sun Jing’s work, image fragments gather and spread as her thoughts come and go; creatures live in formingapastoral paradise. For her, painting is closely linked with Tao and meditation.

    What is landscape? Why landscape? The conversation between artists and landscape might as well be rhetorical—those who immerse themselves back to nature are playing a close game with time, negotiating the weight of eternity.