TRIUMPH GALLERY is pleased to present artist Xu Hongxiang(b.1984, China)'s latest solo exhibition curated by Bao Dong, Displaced I TRIUMPH GALLERY is pleased to present artist Xu Hongxiang(b.1984, China)'s latest solo exhibition curated by Bao Dong, Displaced Images, from October 8th to November 20th, 2022. The exhibition will present Xu Hongxiang's latest content explorations and technical dimensions with his recent paintings.
The title of this exhibition, Displaced Images, comes from the folder of the same name on the artist's computer desktop and also refers to the artist's creative philosophy and approach. Xu Hongxiang, who graduated from the Printmaking Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts with a bachelor's degree and a master's degree, incorporates printmaking thinking into his paintings. He intentionally chooses those "aestheticized" commonplace images, much like those aesthetic images, and then disrupts them, matching them with specific structures and elements. Then, he uses these nonsensical brushstrokes, illuminating blobs and splashes painted on a whim. The faint layers of white paint revealed from impulsive scrubbings to compose works that make all kinds of pictorial "mistakes" and are full of discordant elements.
In the creation process, Xu Hongxiang is unapologetic traces of photoshop, the unrealistic perspectives, the awkward collages, the disproportionate figure-ground relationships, the off-putting repetitions, and the peculiar, embarrassing compositional symmetries all come together and reveal his disdain towards "correctness." Because in an era where those images that are always "correct" have completely taken over the public space, what Xu Hongxiang seeks is how one can go wrong under an error-free aesthetic paradigm. Xu Hongxiang's works are not restrained but rather explore a bit on both content and technical dimensions; the former responds to the world of images, while the latter responds to the essence of painting. mages, from October 8th to November 20th, 2022. The exhibition will present Xu Hongxiang's latest content explorations and technical dimensions with his recent paintings.
The title of this exhibition, Displaced Images, comes from the folder of the same name on the artist's computer desktop and also refers to the artist's creative philosophy and approach. Xu Hongxiang, who graduated from the Printmaking Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts with a bachelor's degree and a master's degree, incorporates printmaking thinking into his paintings. He intentionally chooses those "aestheticized" commonplace images, much like those aesthetic images, and then disrupts them, matching them with specific structures and elements. Then, he uses these nonsensical brushstrokes, illuminating blobs and splashes painted on a whim. The faint layers of white paint revealed from impulsive scrubbings to compose works that make all kinds of pictorial "mistakes" and are full of discordant elements.
In the creation process, Xu Hongxiang is unapologetic traces of photoshop, the unrealistic perspectives, the awkward collages, the disproportionate figure-ground relationships, the off-putting repetitions, and the peculiar, embarrassing compositional symmetries all come together and reveal his disdain towards "correctness." Because in an era where those images that are always "correct" have completely taken over the public space, what Xu Hongxiang seeks is how one can go wrong under an error-free aesthetic paradigm. Xu Hongxiang's works are not restrained but rather explore a bit on both content and technical dimensions; the former responds to the world of images, while the latter responds to the essence of painting.
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Curated by Bao Dong
