Metaphorizing human emotions with animal portrait oil paintings and expressing personal emotions with poems in both Chinese and English

Metaphorizing human emotions with animal portrait oil paintings and expressing personal emotions with poems in both Chinese and English

As a highly recognizable artist, Demos Chiang has a bright and personal visual voice: showing the temperament of tool civilization integration, using animal portraits to metaphor human feelings, and writing poems in Chinese and English to express feelings. At the same time, Demos Chiang is also a very diligent artist. He set the "10000 hour rule" as the threshold for creative hours, and kept discipline every day to ensure uninterrupted creative time. As a result, Demos Chiang has been continuously connecting with frequent solo exhibitions over the years, and the closure of each new solo exhibition symbolizes the birth of a new series.

On June 19, 2023, after the completion of the Shanghai solo exhibition "Gratitude" just now, Demos Chiang's solo exhibition "Haishan Specimen" was unveiled at the Wuji Gallery WSGALLERY located in the WSSPACE of Jindiweixin Wuji Space in Shenzhen. As the opening exhibition of the space, the exhibition brought two series of works of Demos Chiang, namely, "Colorful Rock" and "Yan Yan Shan Chuan", both from Demos Chiang's exploration of nature and animals.

The "Sea Mountain Specimen" and Two Major Series

This is an exhibition that has been inspired for a long time.

Before the epidemic was over, Demos Chiang received an invitation from Wu Bin, a planner and founder of Wuji WSSPACE/Wujian Plan in Shanghai, to hold an exhibition at Wuji Gallery in Shanghai. It was a three storey century old western-style house hiding in the street with the most Shanghai flavor, which was affectionately called "Little White House". Both planners have the experience of learning traditional Chinese painting. Demos Chiang and Wu Bin have forged a deep friendship. After promising to hold the exhibition, Demos Chiang decided to create a series of special works to become the exclusive works of the "Xiaobailou" exhibition.

"After returning to the stage, I began to think, if space is a place for creative memories and memories, what about art? If in one expression, the past, the present and the future will be revealed at the same time? How will the accumulation and heritage of time be reflected in my oil painting reproductions art?" Demos Chiang looked back on the preparation process of the exhibition, These questions kept going unanswered until I started flipping through the paintings from the past. I saw a group of paintings that I first implemented and explored, until I began to differentiate my paint color plates. I saw various' colored rocks'... until I remembered that I had obtained specimens in Wuji

The series of Painted Mountains and Rivers selects the thirteen rice paper works of Demos Chiang in his early days as the set, and uses the pigment pieces accumulated from day to day as the perspective of mountains and rivers, and gives the view of mountains and rivers specimens; Seal the Western artistic conception with Western style picture frames, and then mix them with acrylic to create a depth of field for traditional mountains and rivers, creating unprecedented colors and hand painted oil painting textures. These color blocks seem like layers of rock that need to overlap, compress, and be quenched and formed by time. Each layer in the pigment layer is the longitude and latitude of time. The "Yan Lian Shan Chuan" series, which has accumulated a lot of seasonal achievements, uses creative and contemporary techniques to greet traditional Chinese mountains and rivers.

If 'Yan Yan Shan Chuan' is seen as a fusion of traditional expression and modern custom oil painting materials, then the resulting 'Cai Yan' series is a painting technique that stitches together Israeli live animation and Western lacquerware.

The "Caiyan" series has a rich color scheme and imagery, and the active paint blends color with form, nature and emotions in the composition. The paintings in this series, such as rocks cut open by brushes, feature various animals mysteriously buried by the artist. Dragons, beasts, and even tender rabbits, either integrated with the rock layers or jumped out of the rock layers, are all pursuing the concept of natural perfection. Through the techniques of lacquer activities and infectious rubbings, rich and varied colors are used to create exquisite and rich color patterns, revealing the complex relationship between nature and humanity. It is also an artist's expression of the beauty of nature and self exploration, and every stroke is a tribute to nature.

We will meet again after the end of the epidemic, and the exhibition address will be moved to Shenzhen, becoming the first exhibition of Shenzhen Wuji.

At the exhibition site, you can see that the two major series of works are arranged in a bright and dark manner. The latest creation continues Demos Chiang's creative theme and expression method, and also carries out a new extension. Demos Chiang hopes to test his new creation endlessly. All creation is related to life. Demos Chiang hopes that people can feel funny and happy through his works.

The day before the opening of the exhibition, Demos Chiang arrived at the portrait painting exhibition site. After inspecting the exhibition hall together with curator Wang Yuling, Demos Chiang shared his creative experience, confrontation and exploration in art, and in-depth understanding as an artist of the new works of this exhibition to Yachang Art Network. "What you can see is the scenery I have walked through." The scenery here is not only Demos Chiang's rich and legendary life experience, but also his sincere heart to deal with art.