By artist Shang Liang
After graduating from the Oil Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts and the School of Experimental Art, Shang Liang started a large number of painting creations after strict academy training.
Different from traditional portraits, the muscle-mutated Superman constitutes an interesting and unique visual symbol in her works. In this exhibition, the artist presents the series of "Good Hunter" and "Sofa Man", as well as the newly expanded image of "Boxing Man": a figurative human body is gradually transformed and refined into an abstract, Boxing gloves are portraits of "boxers" without faces and organs.
"Boxing Man" was evacuated from the vacuum, with no background, no time and space, no attachment, dazed and strong, but quiet and stubborn. As a visual symbol, the strong muscles repeatedly depicted by Shang Liang have been separated from the parent body and become an independent new species. It is not only a heroic symbol of physical fitness, battle and conquest, but also an ambiguous metaphor of power, loneliness and contradiction.
These evolutionary and mutated "boxers", overgrown "good hunters", and new works in the "Sofa Man" series imprisoned on the sofa show the artist's contradictory male imagination and "superhuman" from the individual perspective of the artist.
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While emphasizing the symbols, the artist also constructs his own unique image features and visual language. The large-scale "Boxing Man" has simple colors, and the image is direct and powerful; the traces left by the repeated brushstrokes on the painting not only refine the outline but also express the trend and speed, which are both quiet and expansive.
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