Resetting the Perception－Pang Maokun’s Art (2012-2014)
2014.03.07～2014.05.04
09:00 - 17:00
Opening: 2014.03.07, 15:30 Venue: 1F Gallery Exhibition Director: Wang Junjieh, Yang Kai Curator: Feng Boyi, Wang Liya Curatorial Assistant: Liu Yuan, Liu Na, Ma Jie PANG Maokun was born in Chongqing in 1963. He currently acts as the Vice President of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. He is also the Executive Director of Chongqing Art Museum, Vice Chairman of the Chongqing Artists Association, President of Chongqing Painting Academy, Advisory Board Member at the China Artists Association, Member of the China and Artists Association Oil Painting Council, and Advisory Board Member at the China Oil Painting Society. His representative works include Apples are Ripe, The Rainbow is Silently Above, A Golden Summer, the Blur Series, the Virtual Time Series, the Coincidence Series, and the Shining Brightly Series. The exhibition of PANG’s works at Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts is indeed an overseas extension of his solo exhibition that was held in 2013 at the National Art Museum of China, Beijing. In this exhibition, PANG is going to present to the public 18 of his latest oil paintings, and 24 of his manuscripts and drafts. Distinctly realistic in style, PANG’s oil paintings nevertheless set themselves apart from traditional Realism by their aesthetic qualities that convey metaphorical connotations as well as by their philosophical features that inspire sober reflection on the unseen part of human life. What also tells them apart is the way in which PANG rationalizes his concerning issues into the realistic representation on canvas. It is a dual transcendence that PANG has devoted himself to—to break through the limits that traditional realism and the avant-garde texts encounter. He attempts to shed off the noxious dependence that pure realism has form in pursuit of accurate depiction of things. So does he endeavor to keep himself from straying into the textual labyrinth that the avant-garde art tends to build. He therefore endows his realistic works with unsettling narratives that undermine the sure reality. The oxymoronic presentation in his works stings the viewers into a sudden realization that there in truth exists a wide gap between themselves and the reality. In his new works, PANG continues his constant keen perception of the first experience. Through destructive subjective colors, he rearranges images and gives them autonomy by using scenes happen in reality, such as coincidences, bits and pieces in daily life, and all kinds of events. He confronts the viewers with different moments in real life in a fragmentary but synchronic way. In a grain of sand, the viewers see a world; in lightness, solemnness. His works abound in subjective artistic intellectuality and are rich in techniques of creative performance. Apart from overstressing the construction of social and historical meaning of artworks, he brings himself closer to an existence of sensibility, a life that synchronizes the prosaic and opaque daily triviality. On his canvas, he presents the increasingly diverse, chaotic but rich and prosperous life, showing the world a life that is pungent, direct, but rich and vivid. On seeing his works, we do not find a vociferous society; nor do we feel subjective anxiety or anger. Instead, we see and construct the meanings of his works. The meanings conveyed are not to be perceived on the superficial side of society. Rather, they inhere in humanity and the natural flesh of life, showing the peculiar conditions of human existence and the natural colors of life. PANG as a creating subject invests people, gatherings or natural scenes with intellectual reasoning and
meanings.” His aspiration for reaching out of oil painting for a
virtual” reality reveals his attempts to highlight in an abstract way the
uncertainty” and
dramatic” aspects of life, and the ceaseless changes that constantly escape human grasp.
meanings.” His aspiration for reaching out of oil painting for a
virtual” reality reveals his attempts to highlight in an abstract way the
uncertainty” and
dramatic” aspects of life, and the ceaseless changes that constantly escape human grasp.
Opening: 2014.03.07, 15:30 Venue: 1F Gallery Exhibition Director: Wang Junjieh, Yang Kai Curator: Feng Boyi, Wang Liya Curatorial Assistant: Liu Yuan, Liu Na, Ma Jie PANG Maokun was born in Chongqing in 1963. He currently acts as the Vice President of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. He is also the Executive Director of Chongqing Art Museum, Vice Chairman of the Chongqing Artists Association, President of Chongqing Painting Academy, Advisory Board Member at the China Artists Association, Member of the China and Artists Association Oil Painting Council, and Advisory Board Member at the China Oil Painting Society. His representative works include Apples are Ripe, The Rainbow is Silently Above, A Golden Summer, the Blur Series, the Virtual Time Series, the Coincidence Series, and the Shining Brightly Series. The exhibition of PANG’s works at Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts is indeed an overseas extension of his solo exhibition that was held in 2013 at the National Art Museum of China, Beijing. In this exhibition, PANG is going to present to the public 18 of his latest oil paintings, and 24 of his manuscripts and drafts. Distinctly realistic in style, PANG’s oil paintings nevertheless set themselves apart from traditional Realism by their aesthetic qualities that convey metaphorical connotations as well as by their philosophical features that inspire sober reflection on the unseen part of human life. What also tells them apart is the way in which PANG rationalizes his concerning issues into the realistic representation on canvas. It is a dual transcendence that PANG has devoted himself to—to break through the limits that traditional realism and the avant-garde texts encounter. He attempts to shed off the noxious dependence that pure realism has form in pursuit of accurate depiction of things. So does he endeavor to keep himself from straying into the textual labyrinth that the avant-garde art tends to build. He therefore endows his realistic works with unsettling narratives that undermine the sure reality. The oxymoronic presentation in his works stings the viewers into a sudden realization that there in truth exists a wide gap between themselves and the reality. In his new works, PANG continues his constant keen perception of the first experience. Through destructive subjective colors, he rearranges images and gives them autonomy by using scenes happen in reality, such as coincidences, bits and pieces in daily life, and all kinds of events. He confronts the viewers with different moments in real life in a fragmentary but synchronic way. In a grain of sand, the viewers see a world; in lightness, solemnness. His works abound in subjective artistic intellectuality and are rich in techniques of creative performance. Apart from overstressing the construction of social and historical meaning of artworks, he brings himself closer to an existence of sensibility, a life that synchronizes the prosaic and opaque daily triviality. On his canvas, he presents the increasingly diverse, chaotic but rich and prosperous life, showing the world a life that is pungent, direct, but rich and vivid. On seeing his works, we do not find a vociferous society; nor do we feel subjective anxiety or anger. Instead, we see and construct the meanings of his works. The meanings conveyed are not to be perceived on the superficial side of society. Rather, they inhere in humanity and the natural flesh of life, showing the peculiar conditions of human existence and the natural colors of life. PANG as a creating subject invests people, gatherings or natural scenes with intellectual reasoning and
meanings.” His aspiration for reaching out of oil painting for a
virtual” reality reveals his attempts to highlight in an abstract way the
uncertainty” and
dramatic” aspects of life, and the ceaseless changes that constantly escape human grasp.
meanings.” His aspiration for reaching out of oil painting for a
virtual” reality reveals his attempts to highlight in an abstract way the
uncertainty” and
dramatic” aspects of life, and the ceaseless changes that constantly escape human grasp.
Pang Maokun Pang Maokun was born in Chongqing in 1963. He graduated from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute High School in 1981 and from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute Oil Painting Department in 1985. Pang received his master's degree in 1988. Solo Exhibitions 1989 Representative Contemporary Mainland Painters Exhibition Series, Dragon Art Museum, Kaohsiung 1990 Pang Maokun Oil Painting Exhibition, Kowloon Club, China Hong Kong 1992 Pang Maokun Painting Exhibition, Dragon Art Museum, Kaohsiung 1997 Breathing in the Void, Museum of the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing 1998 Classical and Modern Impressions, Mountain Art Museum, Kaohsiung 2006 Gouache Works by Pang Maokun, Three Gorges Museum, Chongqing 2009 Obsession–Classical Pang Maokun Works Exhibition, Frank Lin Art Center, Beijing 2010 Mythology of Today–Pang Maokun Solo Exhibition, Shanghai Museum of Art, Shanghai Deviated Scenes: Sketches, Paintings and Notes by Pang Maokun, K Gallery, Chengdu 2011 Gaze in Silence–Pang Maokun and Contemporary Chinese Oil Painting, Contemporary Gallery of Guangdong Museum of Art at Guangzhou Opera House 2012 Hand Painted Will–Pang Maokun Sketch Exhibition, K Gallery, Chengdu 2013 Viewing the Floating World: Pang Maokun's Art, National Art Museum of China, Beijing 2014 Resetting the Perception: Pang Maokun’s Art (2012-2014), Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei Selected Group Exhibitions 1979 Commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China–National Art Exhibition Sichuan Segment, Sichuan Provincial Museum of Art, Chengdu 1984 Sixth National Fine Art Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing 1987 First China Oil Painting Exhibition, Shanghai Museum of Art, Shanghai Chinese Contemporary Oil Painting Exhibition, Hefner Gallery, New York 1988 Southwestern Modern Art Exhibition, Sichuan Provincial Museum of Art, Chengdu 1991 91 Annual China Oil Painting Exhibition, China Oil Painting Gallery, Beijing 1992 First Annual China Oil Painting Exhibition, Hong Kong Cultural Center, China Hong Kong 1994 Eighth National Fine Art Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing 1995 Modern Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition, Japan-China Friendship Center, Tokyo 1996 From Avant-Garde Art to Our Lives, Museum of the St. Petersburg Art Association, St. Petersburg, Russia 1997 China Art Exhibition–Historical and Thematic Creations Exhibition, National History Museum of China, Beijing China Art Exhibition–Contemporary Oil Painting Exhibition, Shanghai Museum of Art, Shanghai 1998 98 Asia–Pacific Contemporary Art Exhibition (Fuzhou), Fuzhou Provincial Exhibition Hall, Fuzhou 1999 Exhibition of Chinese Small-scale Oil Paintings, National Art Museum of China, Beijing Ninth National Fine Art Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing 2000 Chengdu Museum of Modern Art Autumn Academic Invitational Exhibition, Chengdu Museum of Modern Art, Chengdu 2001 Chong Qing Chilis Pepper Art Invitational Exhibition, Kassel Culture Station, Kassel, Germany Sichuan Story: Post-Political, Bloxham Gallery, London 2002 First China Art Triennial, Guangzhou Museum of Art, Guangzhou Sino-Korea Artistic Exchange Exhibition, Chongqing Museum of Art, Chongqing 2003 The Fist Beijing International Art Biennial, China 2003–Showpiece Contributed By the Teachers at the Ten China’s Art, Schools Contemporary, Museum of the Tsinghua University Art Institute, Beijing Chong Qing Chilis American Tour, Ohio University Art Museum, USA 2004 Each Other, Toulouse Cultural Center, Toulouse, France 2005 Second Chengdu Biennial, Chengdu Museum of Modern Art, Chengdu Man and Nature–Second Contemporary Chinese Landscape and Oil Painting Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing 2006 First Chinese Contemporary Yearbook Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing Contemporary Painting from Chongqing, Macdonald Stewart Art Center, Guelph University, Canada 2007 Setting out from the Southwest–Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition, Guangdong Provincial Museum of Art, Guangzhou &nb
Pang Maokun Pang Maokun was born in Chongqing in 1963. He graduated from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute High School in 1981 and from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute Oil Painting Department in 1985. Pang received his master's degree in 1988. Solo Exhibitions 1989 Representative Contemporary Mainland Painters Exhibition Series, Dragon Art Museum, Kaohsiung 1990 Pang Maokun Oil Painting Exhibition, Kowloon Club, China Hong Kong 1992 Pang Maokun Painting Exhibition, Dragon Art Museum, Kaohsiung 1997 Breathing in the Void, Museum of the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing 1998 Classical and Modern Impressions, Mountain Art Museum, Kaohsiung 2006 Gouache Works by Pang Maokun, Three Gorges Museum, Chongqing 2009 Obsession–Classical Pang Maokun Works Exhibition, Frank Lin Art Center, Beijing 2010 Mythology of Today–Pang Maokun Solo Exhibition, Shanghai Museum of Art, Shanghai Deviated Scenes: Sketches, Paintings and Notes by Pang Maokun, K Gallery, Chengdu 2011 Gaze in Silence–Pang Maokun and Contemporary Chinese Oil Painting, Contemporary Gallery of Guangdong Museum of Art at Guangzhou Opera House 2012 Hand Painted Will–Pang Maokun Sketch Exhibition, K Gallery, Chengdu 2013 Viewing the Floating World: Pang Maokun's Art, National Art Museum of China, Beijing 2014 Resetting the Perception: Pang Maokun’s Art (2012-2014), Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei Selected Group Exhibitions 1979 Commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China–National Art Exhibition Sichuan Segment, Sichuan Provincial Museum of Art, Chengdu 1984 Sixth National Fine Art Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing 1987 First China Oil Painting Exhibition, Shanghai Museum of Art, Shanghai Chinese Contemporary Oil Painting Exhibition, Hefner Gallery, New York 1988 Southwestern Modern Art Exhibition, Sichuan Provincial Museum of Art, Chengdu 1991 91 Annual China Oil Painting Exhibition, China Oil Painting Gallery, Beijing 1992 First Annual China Oil Painting Exhibition, Hong Kong Cultural Center, China Hong Kong 1994 Eighth National Fine Art Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing 1995 Modern Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition, Japan-China Friendship Center, Tokyo 1996 From Avant-Garde Art to Our Lives, Museum of the St. Petersburg Art Association, St. Petersburg, Russia 1997 China Art Exhibition–Historical and Thematic Creations Exhibition, National History Museum of China, Beijing China Art Exhibition–Contemporary Oil Painting Exhibition, Shanghai Museum of Art, Shanghai 1998 98 Asia–Pacific Contemporary Art Exhibition (Fuzhou), Fuzhou Provincial Exhibition Hall, Fuzhou 1999 Exhibition of Chinese Small-scale Oil Paintings, National Art Museum of China, Beijing Ninth National Fine Art Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing 2000 Chengdu Museum of Modern Art Autumn Academic Invitational Exhibition, Chengdu Museum of Modern Art, Chengdu 2001 Chong Qing Chilis Pepper Art Invitational Exhibition, Kassel Culture Station, Kassel, Germany Sichuan Story: Post-Political, Bloxham Gallery, London 2002 First China Art Triennial, Guangzhou Museum of Art, Guangzhou Sino-Korea Artistic Exchange Exhibition, Chongqing Museum of Art, Chongqing 2003 The Fist Beijing International Art Biennial, China 2003–Showpiece Contributed By the Teachers at the Ten China’s Art, Schools Contemporary, Museum of the Tsinghua University Art Institute, Beijing Chong Qing Chilis American Tour, Ohio University Art Museum, USA 2004 Each Other, Toulouse Cultural Center, Toulouse, France 2005 Second Chengdu Biennial, Chengdu Museum of Modern Art, Chengdu Man and Nature–Second Contemporary Chinese Landscape and Oil Painting Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing 2006 First Chinese Contemporary Yearbook Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing Contemporary Painting from Chongqing, Macdonald Stewart Art Center, Guelph University, Canada 2007 Setting out from the Southwest–Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition, Guangdong Provincial Museum of Art, Guangzhou &nb
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