Tong Gallery+Project is honoured to announce that it will exhibit "The Borderless: Wen Yipei, Liu Cong, Liu Guoqiang Joint Exhibition" on October 25, 2020.
A boundaryless land, a space that does not exist, a landscape that is repeated or created by images. Wen Yipei, Liu Cong and Liu Guoqiang explore the capacity of the space in the plane and the possibility of viewing in different media in a rational and restrained way, and reviewed the relationship between objects and me.
The three artists express their thinking about space through different images, reflecting the different ways of viewing between individuals. This exhibition will continue until December 12, 2020. We look forward to your visit to the gallery and watch the three artists "building the world".
Thanks for your attention.
From 2013 to now, Wen Yipei has always built a space on the "flat" canvas to explore the relationship between space structure and daily life. Before 2017, he intercepted clips from the scenes he had experienced, focussing on depicting the real indoor space. Since 2017, based on the interior, he shifted the focus of his vision to the outdoors, trying to redefine the relationship between the perspective, content and growth and life experience of his work in the balance of the two spaces. The space of the work has also shifted from a real scene to a fictional space. From 2019, he will retreat indoors with more footholds to observe the natural and cultural landscape outside the city's buildings from a prying perspective. The vertical architecture series exhibited this time is the continuation and development of his previous viewing perspective. He accurately positioned the viewing perspective in the vertical high-rise space of the city, and looked out the city from a specific and complex perspective of multiple indoor structures. Night, lightning, distant mountains and swimming pools have become common images in this series, which are separated by vertical spaces and architectural structures under different light and atmospheres. The very small concrete still life in the picture, such as chairs, sofas and mirrors, defines the attributes and scale of space, and also implies the existence of human activities with Wen Yipei's iconic warm-coloured oval chandelier. Liu Cong pays attention to the structural language in creation, and is good at using repetition, arrangement, symmetry, reflection and other composition methods to build the structure of the picture and divide the spatial form from the specific image. Sensibility is an important driving force in his creative concept. Artists usually test the relationship between body and space by making and placing objects before painting, and then lead the natural development of painting language with the perception of the body. Different from the creation method of daily objects as the object of observation, the paper works of the Mind Room series are exhibited at the same time, and the image of space and things is constructed with a more written sense of word logic as a surreal architectural space, and in the geometric image vocabulary, the artist's model and space are delivered. Thinking about the relationship between painters and models, self and painting.
Liu Guoqiang began to think about the size, space, order, and creation of a series of works on the two-dimensional plane in 2010. He discussed the picture frame, brush, the inner shape of the paint, the shape and the viewer's viewing method with objective and calm motivation, which also extended the thinking about the concept of numbers and geometry. In 2015, he recreated cutting photography with odd even sequences, from dividing plane space with brushes and frames to creating new spaces on existing planes, which is the first work in the odd and even series. After that, he drew the colour blocks vertically down on the cut paper seams, and juptated and reorganised them in an odd even sorting way to achieve more pure and abstract form simplification. The 2020 new reference comes from the painting folding series, returning to the medium and two-dimensional plane, focussing on the relationship between the content and the carrier itself, and explaining the concept with images.
