展览：饶松青纸上作品展
开幕时间：2009年2月21日星期六
展期：2月21日至3月19日
地址：798艺术区 仁艺术中心
开馆时间：每天上午11点至下午6点
网站：www.yanclub.com
电邮：gallery@yanclub.com
仁艺术中心很荣幸推出饶松青纸上作品展。
饶松青1970年生于湖北，1991年结业于解放军艺术学院油画系。先后工作生活于北京的圆明园和宋庄至今。作品多次在中国及欧洲展出。
其青灰色调的作品里内敛地蔓延着一种人性的隐秘——孤独单调的身影在沉寂、空茫且看不到尽头的风景里或毅然伫立，或苦苦寻找。这种隐秘仿佛是个体对生命的倔强地追问，这股倔强的精神里却又夹杂着茫然。
在最新的一系列纸上作品中，作者运用一贯的表现主义手法使画面充满了张力。
Exhibition: Rao Songqing – Works on Paper
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 21st 2009
Exhibition Duration: February 21st- March 19th 2009
Location: Yan Club Arts Center 798 Art Disctrict
Opening hours: Open everyday from 11am to 6pm
Website: www.yanclub.com
Email: gallery@yanclub.com
Yan Club Arts Center is delighted to introduce Rao Songqing‘s new works on paper.
Rao Songqing was born in Hubei in 1970. He graduated from the Art Academy of People's Liberation Army in 1991. He moved to Beijing from his native Hubei and after wandering from places to places settled down in Yuanmingyuan, he then moved to Songzhuang where he is still living. Rao Songqing has been widely exhibited both in China and Europe.
Rao Songqing’s landscapes depict the soft greys of the forest around Beijing in winter. In his last series of works, the artist has explored his particular attunement with the season through representations of snowed landscapes of an extraordinary expressive quality, his brush becoming bolder with each new painting.
Landscape painting represented philosophical and spiritual concepts relating to the idea of Dao or the way of the universe, and of a generalized view of the world in which individual things only had meaning as aspects of the whole. This idea is clearly present in Rao Songqing’s paintings where humans, if present at all, are but an additional element in the composition, often blending into the landscape. The artist’s works characteristically exude an affinity with nature, an overall feeling of boundless space and supreme harmony that accords with the traditional views.
Rao Songqing’s compositions possess a rhythmic energy created with a brushwork that seems almost calligraphic. Using light and sparse colors, he applies layer upon layer of painting combining with accidental effects to achieve works of great strength and subtlety. The repeating theme of the landscape acts as a vehicle for the expression of the most delicate nuances of feeling.
It cannot be anticipated what will be the next step on the expression of Rao Songqing’s lyrical thoughts and feelings, but one thing is certain: he has already made a statement by depicting the landscapes of his unique soul.
