Yang Liming
“When I am calm and meditate on my inner mind, I can feel a rotating space that slowly lights up and produces many more rays of light. What I paint is not just abstract painting, it is literally a “concretely” projection of what I feel. For me, absolutely all of these elements are tangible, including color, structure, circles or direction of light. “
Works
2016-2017NO.6R.
2016-2018NO.3R.
Sans-titre
2018NO2R.
2018-2019NO.2R.
2019 NO2R.
2017-2018 NO.1R.
Sans-titre
Sans titre
2011 NO.1 R
Biography
Yang Liming was born in 1975 and graduated from the Sichuan Art School, but quickly broke away from that, as called the “Sichuan mei yuan Situation”, a phenomenon which leads most artists of this generation, originally from this province, to this situation and produce similar and not very innovative works.
Yang Liming was born in 1975 and graduated from the Sichuan Art School, but quickly broke away from that, as called the “Sichuan mei yuan Situation”, a phenomenon which leads most artists of this generation, originally from this province, to this situation and produce similar and not very innovative works.
In the early 2000s, Yang Liming decided to study Western art, from Impressionism to Abstract Expressionism and Cubism, and to explore these different forms of painting in his own works. He also dabbled in dripping for a time, fascinated by the scope of dynamic lines in the construction of Pollock’s works. However, he quickly returned to the working technique of line painting with an oil brush. But the “touch” does not satisfy him either. The oil brushes do not stretch out enough; he prefers the use of the Chinese brush, in a close style to the calligraphy that he had practiced in his childhood. A great lover of Western classical music, he then discovered the enormous potential for “musicality” of the fingerboard. The painter’s gesture, like that of the calligrapher, expresses the “qi”, both vital energy and tone, to reflect his own sensations. The result is an image that translates into a “concrete” way of expressing the vision of this feeling. This concept, impossible to translate into French but which could be defined as an “analogy” or an “analogous image”, is therefore imbued with both precepts of Taoist Chinese philosophy, movements of musical composition, and the calligraphic gesture. Yang Liming’s work is therefore situated in the interrelation of the senses (sight, hearing), of the heart as a central element of the body and motor of emotions, and of the hand, extended by the brush tool.
In 2006, the artist’s first series devoted to expressing the concept of “analogous image” through the line essentially explored the structuring of linear segments. A few years later, the artist’s perception gradually changes. Straight lines and right angles give way to curved and cyclic lines, to form spatial sets made up of rotating circles. These compositions are, in reality, the pictorial translation of the artist’s peaceful spirit. As he put it in a 2015 interview with Liao Wen, “When I am calm and meditate on my inner mind, I can feel a rotating space that slowly lights up and produces many more rays of light. What I paint is not just abstract painting, it is literally a “concretely” projection of what I feel. For me, absolutely all of these elements are tangible, including color, structure, circles or direction of light. “
The user of the colore come equally to reinforce this voluntariness to drowing the “tangible reality” of sensation. For Yang Liming, the red symbolizes the passion of life and fire. He explained something which was united to blood, the porter of life, but also sometimes worried about pain. As for black, he represents a family. Infinite black is not something dark that would come and destroy us. In fact, it carries a heat and a light that emerges from the inner part to come and help us. The different types of black, cold, or warm, find their balance in the luminosity created by the color contrasts.
From the meeting and the mixture of these two colors are born vibrations, a real carresant wave, the surface of the canvas like the concentric circles formed by a fallen stone in the heart of a lake.
Ricochets of the heart, energetic echoes of the hand on the surface to be painted, interrogations of the past meeting the present to bring out the future.
Analogy without references and doors open to the soul of the artist. Poetic as well as prosaic works. Living spaces.
Exhibitions
Career
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Vibrating String, Chun Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2023–2024
Ink & Abstraction, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2023
Grand Calligraphy, Yuan Art Museum, Beijing, China
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Vibrating String, Chun Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2023–2024
Ink & Abstraction, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2023
Grand Calligraphy, Yuan Art Museum, Beijing, China
2022
Deconstruction of Inner Images, Triumph Gallery, Beijing, China
Silent Structures, Powerlong Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2021
Between Tradition and Modernity, National Art Museum of China, China
2019
Yang Liming, Galerie Loft, Paris, France
2017
Animitta, Triumph Art Space 798, Beijing, China
2015
Living Spaces, Galerie Loft, Paris, France
Write, Poly Gallery, Hong Kong
2014
B. Projects, Shangpin Arts, Beijing, China
2013
Solo Exhibition, Galerie du Monde, Hong Kong
2012
Red and Black, Green T. House Living, Beijing, China
2010
From Back to Forth, F2 Gallery, Beijing, China
Subjective Reality (with Feng Lianghong), Artmia Foundation, Beijing, China
Abstract and Gusto (with Yang Shu and Cheng Wenling), Central Bookstore, Chengdu, China
2009
Remembering How the Air Shimmers (with Shen Chen and He Peng), 1918 Art Space, Shanghai, China
Black and White Dialogue with Qiu Shihua, Found Museum, Beijing, China
2008
After Escaping from Reality, Triumph Art Space 798, Beijing, China
2006
Space Flowing Melody 2003–2005, China Today Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Space Flowing Melody 2003–2005, Jia Gallery, Taiwan
2004
Presentation: Yang Liming and Shi Jindian, Chengdu Art Now Center, Chengdu, China
2003
Space Flowing Melody 2003–2005, Haishangshan Art Center, Hangzhou, China
News
Discover Yang Liming's GRAND CALLIGRAPHY series at the Yuan Art Museum from May 27 to July 11, 2023.
At the end of 2019, Galerie Loft presents a selection of works that invites us to travel through space.
"Peacefully, let us concentrate on examining the scenes from the past that emerge from our hearts as if in a dream".