展覽：饒松青紙上作品展
開幕時間：2009年2月21日星期六
展期：2月21日至3月19日
地址：798藝術區 仁藝術中心
開館時間：每天上午11點至下午6點
網站：www.yanclub.com
電郵：gallery@yanclub.com
仁藝術中心很榮幸推出饒松青紙上作品展。
饒松青1970年生於湖北，1991年結業于解放軍藝術學院油畫係。先後工作生活于北京的圓明園和宋莊至今。作品多次在中國及歐洲展出。
其青灰色調的作品裏內斂地蔓延著一種人性的隱秘——孤獨單調的身影在沉寂、空茫且看不到盡頭的風景裏或毅然佇立，或苦苦尋找。這種隱秘仿佛是個體對生命的倔強地追問，這股倔強的精神裏卻又夾雜著茫然。
在最新的一系列紙上作品中，作者運用一貫的表現主義手法使畫面充滿了張力。
Exhibition: Rao Songqing – Works on Paper
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 21st 2009
Exhibition Duration: February 21st- March 19th 2009
Location: Yan Club Arts Center 798 Art Disctrict
Opening hours: Open everyday from 11am to 6pm
Website: www.yanclub.com
Email: gallery@yanclub.com
Yan Club Arts Center is delighted to introduce Rao Songqing‘s new works on paper.
Rao Songqing was born in Hubei in 1970. He graduated from the Art Academy of People's Liberation Army in 1991. He moved to Beijing from his native Hubei and after wandering from places to places settled down in Yuanmingyuan, he then moved to Songzhuang where he is still living. Rao Songqing has been widely exhibited both in China and Europe.
Rao Songqing’s landscapes depict the soft greys of the forest around Beijing in winter. In his last series of works, the artist has explored his particular attunement with the season through representations of snowed landscapes of an extraordinary expressive quality, his brush becoming bolder with each new painting.
Landscape painting represented philosophical and spiritual concepts relating to the idea of Dao or the way of the universe, and of a generalized view of the world in which individual things only had meaning as aspects of the whole. This idea is clearly present in Rao Songqing’s paintings where humans, if present at all, are but an additional element in the composition, often blending into the landscape. The artist’s works characteristically exude an affinity with nature, an overall feeling of boundless space and supreme harmony that accords with the traditional views.
Rao Songqing’s compositions possess a rhythmic energy created with a brushwork that seems almost calligraphic. Using light and sparse colors, he applies layer upon layer of painting combining with accidental effects to achieve works of great strength and subtlety. The repeating theme of the landscape acts as a vehicle for the expression of the most delicate nuances of feeling.
It cannot be anticipated what will be the next step on the expression of Rao Songqing’s lyrical thoughts and feelings, but one thing is certain: he has already made a statement by depicting the landscapes of his unique soul.
