From June 12 to July 31, 2016, Tong Gallery+Projects will present you Liu Enzhao's solo exhibition: Rousseau's garden. His latest oil paintings of "Constellation Series" and "Rousseau's Garden Series" will be exhibited soon. 

Liu Enzhao's recent painting creation continues to create pictures with the theme of flowers and birds, animals, jungle and starry sky. The magnificent colours, strong brush strokes, and naive imagination create a fantasy world full of profound beauty. Painting is a pleasant life experience for him from being close to nature to starting a fantasy journey. The seven-year study tour of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, on the one hand, allowed him to practice solid and profound realistic skills, and on the other hand, he also took a firm step in the creative process of constantly examining himself and using painting to find spiritual demands. As his graduate graduation work, Hundred Birds stood out in the graduation exhibition, won the Excellent Award and participated in the Excellent Graduation Works Exhibition of Thousand Miles. In this work, he fills the whole picture with almost flattened treatment. The dense branches and leaves of different shapes grow naturally. A wide variety of birds from different countries, regions and climatic conditions live here. Some live in pairs, some play with each other, some dance, some attract their throats, and some Building a love nest together, there are also people who look at it. The scattered perspective in traditional Chinese painting is flexibly used by artists. The viewer's eyes are mobilised, and we must constantly move the perspective to see the details of each colour one by one. If the Hundred Birds and his previous works are mainly influenced by the domestic cultural environment, then his experience of going to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in the United States after graduation will certainly add a new source to his creation. 

The upcoming "Rousseau's Garden Series" will be reflected in this exhibition. The artist continues to use the layout of traditional Chinese paintings to organise the picture. The lifelike peacock, which occupies a large space on the left side, does not affect the audience not to pay attention to the owl that has no movement in the middle of the picture. When we are a little nervous about the two birds that are biting, the red eyes in the background will become cold. The use of pure and bright colours in a large area is the direct impact of the foreign artistic environment reflected in the picture. Rather than continuing to reconstruct the artistic conception of Henry Rousseau's jungle painting, the artist is trying to find a path to the opposite side.