Opening on 3 March 2023, ShanghART Beijing is pleased to present an exhibition of works by artist Liu Cong titled The Long Now. This is Liu's first solo show at ShanghART Gallery, featuring new paintings he has recently created. In this exhibition, Liu Cong continues his long-standing exploration of 'painting' as a mode of expression. After removing different means of expression such as pictorial depiction, narrative, and knowledge production, Liu chooses to use a variety of ready-mades as 'models.'
While emphasising the presence of the body, through the artificial 'image-making' of these 'objects' on canvas, along with detached reflection, he releases pictures with spiritual properties and gives them a perceptual tension. In describing the progressive relationships of 'reality' and 'sense of reality,' as well as 'sensibility' to which the 'sense of reality' extends and points, a metaphysical experience of the 'atmosphere of existence' is achieved in the context of 'human' that revolves around human emotions, states of mind, limitations, and the quest for transcendence.
Liu Cong's paper series draws inspiration from various architectural surfaces, spaces, and environments, emphasising rational logic through straight lines. And the overlapping papers are reminiscent of the meticulous depiction of clothing folds in Renaissance works with an ineffable mysterious atmosphere.
The curve-dominated balloon series is anthropomorphic and emotional. The artist enlarges, crops, and collages parts of the image like the film montage.
Press release courtesy ShanghART.
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