"Sentiments”: Exhibition of Jiang Guofang and Wang Huaiqing at Yang Gallery

2011-04-15 12:08:18

Yang Gallery is presenting an exhibition of Jiang Guofang and Wang Huaiqing through 18th May to 26th Jun. The exhibition, called “Sentiments”, aimed to take the audience go back in time into the daily lives within the Fobidden City with Jiang Guofang as well as to experience the liberation from the expressive abstract art by Wang Huaiqing.

Jiang Guofang’s most well know ‘Forbidden City Series’ records the daily lives and delicate subject matters such as princes, empresses and concubines in Ancient China, all with a poetic and almost heavenly ambience. His ‘Little Princes’ represents a continuation of China’s century old practice of the younger generation taking over the old, as well as the system of Monarchy that naturally influences certain foundations in the modern society today.

Wang Huaiqing studied under the great Chinese Master Wu Guanzhong and was a leader among the group of modern oil painter who called themselves ‘The Contemporaries, Tong Dai Ren’. The subject matter of his painting was chiefly portraits of his family and surroundings. They are natural and intimate, yet infused with a strong and daring feeling for color and design.