Huaqing: hometown of spirit
Exhibition period: 2022.07.01 – 08.06
Opening: 3 p.m. on July 9, 2022
Curator: zhangsiyong
Host: Beijing Millennium Time Gallery
Co organizer: millennium time Art Center
Support: Peking University resources Tianzhu Art Center
Address: Peking University resources Tianzhu Art Center (1f-2f exhibition hall), building 8, Fuqian Second Street, Shunyi District, Beijing
Consultation: 18610211798 (please make an appointment to watch the exhibition)
Exhibition site (exhibition hall on the second floor):
Name: my hometown
Specification: 160x260cm
Year: 2022
Huaqing: hometown of spirit
Zhang Siyong
“No matter what answer the faith gives, no matter what kind of faith, or who gives the answer, such an answer always gives infinite meaning to human limited existence; a meaning that is not deprived by suffering or destroyed by death.”
——Leo Tolstoy’s Confessions
For a long time, contemporary artist Hua Qing has taken questioning the meaning of life, thinking about where the power of human belief comes from, questioning the final judgment of things, and caring about the spiritual ownership of my existence as an important concept core in his painting creation. In the complex and changeable world, in the multi-faceted mirror image of specific life, his artistic vision focuses on the mutual viewing of image and afterimage, and the mutual existence of reason and emotion, which runs through the artist’s deep thinking of human sociality with geographical things after living abroad and returning home for many years, and constructs the expression forms of thinking in culture, history, philosophy, social life, popular images In the visual fortress of multiple symbiosis such as the change of the times. From the intertwined narration of time and space, from the establishment of image to the restoration of afterimage, they are all embodied in the presence of symbols, roles, intuition, beautiful singing, rational criticism, that is, the presence of all people in parallel and interactive scenes. Thus, in the natural revelation of human beings and the presentation of social sexuality, we can look directly at the sorrow of reality, the pain of life, the problems of art, ask the answers of the world, and dive into the spiritual hometown to analyze one by one: where do I come from? Where are you going? Who am I?
As long as you often look through the wechat circle of friends of Hua Qing, you can read the diligent and persistent creator’s self authentic ideological view of “I think, so I am, I draw, so I think”. This kind of thinking and judgment has become his daily creation in the noisy and flashy phenomenon world, reflecting the daily me and comforting me in my time quotations, and also clearly marks his spiritual monologue from studying the art cluster to one of the calm me. Therefore, I also noticed a dialogue between Hua Qing and the critic Huang Du in the solo exhibition of the Upanishads of man, List 1 and 2: (1) I am very interested in the French philosopher Descartes’ philosophical idea “I think, so I am”, because a person can’t deny that he is perceiving and thinking, whether in reality or in a dream. As long as a person is perceiving and thinking, he must be real, because only the living have this ability of perception and thinking. 2. Based on this philosophy, I personally understand “I think, so I am” is that people realize the existence of themselves through the process of thinking, and also understand the world through thinking or consciousness. Hua Qing, 2008.1). Quote it, so that today’s viewers can get close to his continuous artistic thinking and life judgment, and can find historical philosophers, today’s artists, and the current you and me in the image language and formal world of Huaqing style spirits of all things, a sustainable dialogue between the three dimensions of time and space, and a sympathetic human artistic aesthetics.
Name: my heart garden (3)
Specification: 130x130cm
Year: 2022
Whether it is a large-scale creation or a small manuscript, Hua Qing’s free combination of oil paintings is carefully established in the perspective structure of image narration. In the picture, there are intelligent peacocks, playful bear dolls, standing owls, game clowns, thinker gorillas, runaway horses, advancing giant rhinoceros, illusory mechanical butterflies and dragonflies spreading their wings, warm or original reproductive flowers blooming, and the classical label placed in the picture language – Einstein’s relativistic mass energy equation e=mc ²。 These objects favored by the creator form the force of visual totem after being corrected by the creator, explaining the binary intersection of things and emotions to the viewer. In the selection of many images and the screening of afterimages, the connection of life is stated through the appearance of all things, which leads to the connection between the spirits of all things and the uncertain world, so as to find the spiritual hometown of “I am who I am”.
The performance of Huaqing art sees the wonderful world from the brief history of mankind, the shape of the picture world from the theory of biological evolution, the garden of my soul built from one flower to one world, from paradise lost to the Republic, from elsewhere to my hometown, from phenomenon to essence, from non ego to ID. All spiritual induction and logical thinking further show that the artist himself follows the intellectual expression of Chinese philosophy of “my heart is the universe, and the universe is my heart”.
Work site (exhibition hall on the first floor):
Name: my heart garden (1)
Specification: 150x150cm
Year: 2022
In the long-term practice day after day, in the still waters of life years, and under the complex relationship of individual life resisting the flood and famine of the times, Hua Qing’s works argue the theory of the other in the vain world from the perspective of ID, analyze the binary relationship between objective things and life emotions with a unique philosophy of life, gradually put down and move towards reconciliation in the dialogue and thinking of rational questioning and belief comfort, and on the way to the hometown of the soul, Between the universal values of love and worry, creation and sublimation and the contemporary art concept, it shows the form, emotion, value and freedom of contemporary artist Hua Qingzhong’s heart.
The form of Hua Qing’s painting is selected from the flooded social landscape, taking things as me and things as the future image of mankind. Placing the emotional self on the world empathy of all sentient beings is like the visual language accumulated in his pictures, desolate and warm. The value of Hua Qing is manifested in the individual center of the work, the collective memory and the rational criticism and life maintenance in the context of the times. In his interpretation of the free self, he broke through the boundaries of time and space, crossed the dimensions of life and survival, followed the call of his heart, and returned to the hometown of spiritual life from the depths of his heart!
”
The storage of words, the formation of volcanoes,
Washed out by the roar of the sea.
above,
That’s not created
great scourges; it
Show a flag – image and afterimage
Cruising through time in vain.
Until you put the word moon
Throw it away suddenly, from the miraculous
The tide is ebbing, and this
Heart shaped crater
Will be naked as the witness of creation,
King’s——
be born.
”
——Paul Celan / storage of words
< Zhang Siyong, June 30, 2022, finished at Beijing Millennium Time Gallery. >
Name: the beginning of man (1)
Specification: 150x150cm
Year: 2022
Name: Wonderful World
Specification: 130x97cm
Year: 2022
Contemporary artist Hua Qing
Born in Huaibei City, Anhui Province in 1962
Graduated from Anhui art school in 1981
Graduated from the Central Academy of Arts and crafts in 1986
Solo exhibition
2022 spirit hometown Huaqing solo exhibition millennium time Gallery Beijing
2020 Huaqing art exhibition of Jiaxing Art Museum
Meet Huaqing art works and Persian carpet art dialogue in 2020
2019 Art Beijing Huaqing Art Exhibition
2019 human fairy tales Qiaofu Fangcao Gallery
2019 Huaqing 2019 Art Beijing Art Expo
2018 Huaqing works exhibition Nanman art Singapore
2018 Huaqing new work Jinge Art Center Beijing
2016 “outlet” Qiaofu fangcaoyitong Gallery, Beijing, China
“Qu” Huaqing Works Exhibition Gallery, Beijing, China
2015 second exhibition of “the Upanishads of man” – Huaqing solo exhibition Yang International Art Center 798 Beijing, China
2013 “Twelve faces of people” — 2013 Huaqing works exhibition, Asian Art Center, Taipei
2012 “people and things” – 2012 Huaqing New Works Exhibition Beijing 798 Asian Art Center China
2011 “destiny” – Huaqing art exhibition Asian Art Center Beijing 798 China
2010 “thinking” Huaqing solo exhibition, Megumi ogita Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2009 “Huaqing Works Exhibition”, opera Gallery, Hong Kong
2008 “the upanishadism of man” — Huaqing 2008 Asian Art Center Beijing 798
2004 Huaqing Taiwan style oil painting exhibition Mingguan Art Center Hsinchu Taiwan
1999 Huaqing Taiwan landscape exhibition Beizhuang Art Center Yonghe Taiwan
1991 Huaqing solo exhibition grafck kolitiv Gallery Belgrade Yugoslavia
1991 Huaqing works exhibition studio galerije forum Gallery Zagreb Croatia
1991 SKC Gallery Ljubljana Slovenia
1987 Beijing Artists Association Gallery Beijing Concert Hall Beijing China
joint exhibition
Harbour Art Fair Hong Kong in 2019
Nominated exhibition of 2018 Shenzhen Art Expo
Cultural history and tradition from the perspective of modern and contemporary environment in 2018 Bonn Germany
Earth creativity and sustainability at the 11th Florence International Contemporary Art Biennale 2017
2017 Paris grand royal art wealth salon post Oriental Chinese theme contemporary painting exhibition, Paris, France
2016 China Italy Biennale Beijing China
2014 China Italy Biennale, Turin, Italy
2013 55th Venice Biennale parallel Exhibition China independent project “cultural spirit generation” Venice Italy
2012 Art Beijing Expo Asian Art Center Beijing China
2012 “time difference” — 2012 Sino German cultural exchange exhibition Hannover, Germany
2008 Bridge Art Fair New York Blue Dot Asia Seoul South Korea
“China now now 2” Amsterdam Art Fair Amsterdam “crossroads”, opera Gallery Singapore
2007 “Tianxingjian – Frontier exhibition of Chinese contemporary art” Asian Art Center, Beijing, China
2007 “world affairs rather than” Doosan Art Center Asian art center Seoul South Korea
2006 “mobile socialism” 798 tense space Beijing China
2006 “red star, red star, Red Star” nine person exhibition, Red Star Gallery, Beijing, China
2006 “ready to move”, Zhu Jizhan Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2006 “free travel” OSHA Art Museum Hong Kong China
1998 Beijing Art Expo Beijing China
Ljubljana international printmaking Biennale, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1993
1989 Asian African academy Art Center Vienna Austria
1989 Osaka International Art Biennale Osaka Japan
Award
1991 roqaska salatina international art Excellence Award Slovenia
Huaqing solo exhibition site 2022.7.1
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