Mang Ke will be sixty years old in a few days.

When he was twenty-eight years old, Mang Ke found the literary magazine Today , which lighted so many youth dreams. He always fights in the front of the poetry, though it is often neglected by the people. Now, he decides to hold a quite different exhibition in Jason Gallery just like at that time what he did.

Mang Ke is a well-known contemporary poet and oil painter. His solo exhibition will be open in Jason Gallery and last from November 6th to 26th. As we know, it is not a news that poet paints, because poetry and painting have the same esthetic principles. Both of them, like a person’s two legs, prop up the traditional Chinese scholar world. And this exhibition connects art with technique, and let common people decorate their own life with artists’ works.

Oil painting as a important part of contemporary art, always spread in art and collection field, but most of common people unable to understand its spirit no to speak to discriminate the real painting from the false one. More over, the oil painting is so expensive that people cannot afford it. However, this exhibition combines art and technique and make painting close to people. It is said people who could not go to the exhibit could personalized decorate background skin like Baidu cyberspace or 360 security guards. Personalization consider as a good way of life by more and more people. And when they personalized their interface, the skin provided by network products themselves can not meet users needs, so if the contemporary oil painting to be a network skin, can not only disseminated widely in contemporary art but also meet new personalized meet.

Jansen Gallery is a limited space where the more people in, the low use value it has. But the web space has unlimited space and populated millions of customers, if the more customers, the higher use value. As for the curator Liu Ke said, only the constant change and develop are eternal, technique changing and art developing, so we have this reason to believe if we combine art with technique to help art become much splendid.

Beside, according to Liu Ke what he said, Jansen Gallery will open network spaces on E-commerce website like Taobao, and let more customers appreciate and enjoy artworks.

Nowdays, Mang Ke lives in Song Zhuang artists’ village. This exhibition presents more than thirty works and receives many well-known critics like Li Xianting, Duan Jun, Sun Lei, Yang Wei, Xia and Yanguo.

Li Xianting said, Mong Ke’s painting is very simple in form, a tree or a flower is a kind of form, but the color is very bright and pretty.

Yang Wei said, Mong Ke’s poetry and painting go though two different time and space. Mong Ke’s painting returns to the nature and find the paradise in his inner world. In fact, art shouldn’t add social function unless the society stop the development of people’s spirit. As for the other kind of person who has a high character, this society couldn’t disturb his spirit. Like Mong Ke, he could thread though in art and poetry freely. Art or poetry for him is only a way that he express his mind and surpass his character.