Group Exhibition BLANKgallery, Shanghai
BLANKgallery is delighted to present the first exhibition of 2024, titled "Memories”, featuring a selected showcase of works by significant emerging Chinese artists with whom the gallery has closely collaborated. This exhibition will emphasize the presentation of large-scale paintings, exploring the theme of memory and discussing how it serves as a crucial thread, impression, and inspirational source for artists.
The group exhibition focuses on artists' individual creative processes-how they perceive, revisit, and imagine memories, and further delves into how they integrate their distinctive artistic language and ultimately presenting it on canvas. The creative process itself also parallels the formation of memories in the mind: The process of generating memories stimulates the brain to store and process objective experiences over time, undergoing transformation and growth in various modes of thought. In contemporary times, memories are not merely derived from firsthand experiences but can also be acquired from screens, emotional impulses, dreams, art history, and other sources. This complexity expands the concept of memory in painting within the contemporary art scene. It delves into how artists process images, whether in the presence of individual consciousness, or rationally construct, or rather create a form of emotion.
From the artworks, the group exhibition is presenting within a unified aesthetic. This is particularly evident in how artists express psychedelic resembled feelings and compelling energies and states through the use of conflicting colors. This immersive experience allows viewers to engage with memories, distancing themselves from reality, seeking solace, using it as an escape, or perhaps finding enlightenment within.
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