Parkview Green Art Taipei ispresenting Inevitability – Li Heng SoloExhibition in mid-September. Originally from Urumqi, the Germany-basedartist, Li Heng, portrays the psychological aspect of contemporary landscapewith exuberant creative energy. After living and studying in Russia and Germany,Li is holding his first touring solo exhibition in Asia. During this period,the artist has conducted an onsite creative project in Parkview Green ArtBeijing and created a series of stunning works that have received positivefeedback. Ensuing the exhibition in Beijing, the Taipei exhibition alsofeatures a number of latest, never-before-seen works inspired by the Taiwanesescenes and created specifically for the gallery space in Taipei, showing adifferent landscape to the Taiwanese audience.
Taiwan is a precious island thatpossesses diverse and rich topography and geological features. Its mountains,hills, plains, basins, and beauteous rivers are utterly different from the vastlandscape of the desert and prairie of China's western regions. The exhibitiontheme, "inevitability," continues the narrative of the Beijing exhibitionwhile incorporating a fresh dialogue between the island of Taiwan and the openfields of the western regions. Differing from the petite but exquisiteTaiwanese landscape, the sublime and majestic landscape in Li's work displays acontrasting landscape scale and power, enabling the Formosan audience torevisit the familiar landscape.
Theexhibition follows two narrative concepts that respond to the theme of"inevitability," demonstrating both "vastness" and"reservedness" through Li's landscape and simultaneously juxtaposing the"introversive" and the "extroversive" that ignite andcompel audience's unlimited imagination.
Since the Western Romanticism,the concept of landscape painting has witnessed a visible shift in its subject matter.Whereas the traditional landscape painting focused on objective depiction thatpraises nature's wonder, contemporary landscape painting has gradually shiftedto portray the subjective feelings and psyche of artists. Li's painting usuallydepicts vast prairies without human figures. With an enveloping atmosphere, hiswork unveils the "force field" of the mind; and his portrayal ofgathering dark clouds as well as that of the strong grass in testing windsomehow seems "surreal," beckoning at unpredictable signs of nature.Through the painted grass and following the leads in his painting, audiencecould find an inner realm of one's own. "Every person has a prairie of hisown in mind."
Parkview Green Art Taipei ispresenting Inevitability – Li Heng SoloExhibition in mid-September. Originally from Urumqi, the Germany-basedartist, Li Heng, portrays the psychological aspect of contemporary landscapewith exuberant creative energy. After living and studying in Russia and Germany,Li is holding his first touring solo exhibition in Asia. During this period,the artist has conducted an onsite creative project in Parkview Green ArtBeijing and created a series of stunning works that have received positivefeedback. Ensuing the exhibition in Beijing, the Taipei exhibition alsofeatures a number of latest, never-before-seen works inspired by the Taiwanesescenes and created specifically for the gallery space in Taipei, showing adifferent landscape to the Taiwanese audience.
Taiwan is a precious island thatpossesses diverse and rich topography and geological features. Its mountains,hills, plains, basins, and beauteous rivers are utterly different from the vastlandscape of the desert and prairie of China's western regions. The exhibitiontheme, "inevitability," continues the narrative of the Beijing exhibitionwhile incorporating a fresh dialogue between the island of Taiwan and the openfields of the western regions. Differing from the petite but exquisiteTaiwanese landscape, the sublime and majestic landscape in Li's work displays acontrasting landscape scale and power, enabling the Formosan audience torevisit the familiar landscape.
Theexhibition follows two narrative concepts that respond to the theme of"inevitability," demonstrating both "vastness" and"reservedness" through Li's landscape and simultaneously juxtaposing the"introversive" and the "extroversive" that ignite andcompel audience's unlimited imagination.
Since the Western Romanticism,the concept of landscape painting has witnessed a visible shift in its subject matter.Whereas the traditional landscape painting focused on objective depiction thatpraises nature's wonder, contemporary landscape painting has gradually shiftedto portray the subjective feelings and psyche of artists. Li's painting usuallydepicts vast prairies without human figures. With an enveloping atmosphere, hiswork unveils the "force field" of the mind; and his portrayal ofgathering dark clouds as well as that of the strong grass in testing windsomehow seems "surreal," beckoning at unpredictable signs of nature.Through the painted grass and following the leads in his painting, audiencecould find an inner realm of one's own. "Every person has a prairie of hisown in mind."