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JAMES HYMAN GALLERY
Sun Liang (b.1957)
Please scroll down for further information. Sun Liang (b.1957) Golden Leopard Oil on canvas 200 x 110 cms (78¾ x 43¼ inches) 2005 Exhibition History: 2007 - “Tattooed Moon” Sun Liang Solo Exhibition, Z-art Center Shanghai, China 2007 - "One Person One Year" Art Exhibition, Shanghai, China2006 - “Genesis of Image: Sun Liang’s Oil Paintings”, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China James Hyman Gallery, in association with Contrasts Gallery (Hong Kong and Shangai), is pleased to announce a major exhibition of Sun Liang for London this June. Sun Liang initially established his reputation as one of the Generation of 85 group of young Chinese artists who with growing liberalism, for the first time engaged with international contemporary art and culture. He was included in the important exhibition China. Avant Garde at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Beijing in 1989 and in 1993 was one of the very first artists to represent China at the Venice Biennale. Although most recently, the spot-light has turned on a younger generation of Chinese artists the importance of Sun Liang’s pioneering generation is being increasingly recognised, as is indicated by his inclusion in the opening exhibition, 85 New Wave: The Birth of Chinese Contemporary Art, at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing in autumn 2007. In contrast to the cynical realists of Beijing, Sun Liang is a key figure in the art scene of Shanghai. In common with many of the most interesting Chinese contemporary artists, Sun Liang not only engages with international contemporary art but also with Chinese history and experience. Paintings of the 1980s combine Western and Chinese mythology, allegorical works of the later 1980s have specific Chinese roots yet echo the anguish of Bacon, Basquiat and Baselitz and more recently lyrical works have reasserted Chinese techniques as well as imagery. This is evident in Sun Liang’s continuing fascination with the art of calligraphy, scroll painting and brush and ink painting, and is found also in his paintings in which serpents slide and leopards prowl in a highly sexualised world of mutating and mutated mythological beasts. Commenting on this painting, the artist explains that: "The body shape is very beautiful, with golden skin pattern, female looks and transparent wings. I think all these express the beauty of objects - the most beautiful thing in my eyes." Please click here to contact us about this item, or if you wish to buy or sell a work by this artist. | ||||||||
