Wang Yi-zhou: Behold the Mountain

EVENT DESCRIPTION

Rì Galerie is thrilled to present Behold the Mountain, an online solo exhibition by the well-known Mainland Chinese minimalist expressionism artist Wang Yi-zhou which showcases the most symbolic works of his more than 30 years of artistic creation.

Wang’s mountain is the mountain where the beginning of heaven and the earth genesis, taking the mountain as the foundation, it is refined into a generalized approximate symbolic language with simple lines and colors and endows it with infinite energy in a calm atmosphere, therefore, the mountain is no longer just a mountain, which is a kind of spirit, a kind of gravitational force, a full of majestic force and a field of aura full of energy surrounding viewers who see it.

When dealing with the relationships that exist in landscapes, Wang tries to reach a harmonious balance between static and dynamic, lightness and heaviness, sparseness and density, simplicity and complexity. Simultaneously, his penchant for combining calligraphy, ink painting, oil painting, and installation works is subtly displayed. Its art reminds us to reflect on heaven and earth at the beginning of civilization, to return to the original matrix of this world, to experience the most essential truth, and to trigger nature’s heart which has been deceived for a long time. In the form of the simplicity of mountain building, titled with the simplest vocabulary – “Mountain”, the high mountain is in front, and the line is up to the top.

His minimalist expressionism is a kind of simple and conceptual art that directly and truly expresses self-spiritual thoughts that Arts coexist with its own inertia. Originating from his own cultivation, interpretation, and perception of the real world, it is an experience and expression of philosophical viewpoints. Compared with Minimalism, his minimalist expressionism does not emphasize extreme homogenization, proportionalization, scale, and abstraction, instead, it extracts the most essential features from natural forms and modifies them, which highly integrates his own quality cultivation, so as to achieve a high degree of inclusiveness and distinctive individual characteristics of art, minimalist expressionist art is neither figurative art nor absolute abstract art.

ABOUT THE ARTIST / ORGANISER

Wang Yi-zhou (b. 1969), born in Jiangsu, currently lives in Shanghai and is a professional full-time artist. He studied successively at Huaiyin Normal University (淮阴师范学院) and Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts (天津美术学院).

In his childhood, he inherited his family's education in Chinese calligraphy, Chinese painting, and ancient literature. He is one of the earliest Chinese artists to study and research Huang Bin-hong (黄宾虹) and majored in oil painting at university. Currently, his works convey his artistic spirit through various media, skills, and techniques.

Wang has devoted more than 30 years of study of ancient Chinese humanities and philosophy; the comparison of ancient culture and contemporary culture; study the comparison of Chinese and Western art, and put forward the concept of minimalist expressionism in the artistic spirit of Chinese calligraphy, freehand painting, minimalism, abstraction, expressionism, etc.

His works are full of humanistic sentiments in simple lines and colors, which expressing the inner spirit of simplicity, generalization, solitude, and detachment with mountains, water, lotus, and tree as creative materials, which combines writing, expression, artistic conception, and composition presented in a humanistic way, generalize things into approximate symbolic languages yet full of improvisational poetry, that is an essential expression of "Affective Imagery" in Chinese culture.

The Yi Jing (易经) deeply inspired his artistic ideas, causing his works to be abstract rather than abstract, there are unexpected changes in everything under control, giving a power of vastness, depth, distance, and calmness.

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