策展人/Curator：梁勤 Liang Qin

学术主持/Academic Director：后果 Liv Li

参展艺术家 / Artists： 柴一茗 Chai Yiming、何赛邦 He Saibang，蒋奇谷 Jiang Qigu, 于彭 Yu Peng ，

开幕式Opening: 2014.04.26, 15:00—18:00

展览时间During：2014.04.26 — 06.03

主办方：江苏凤凰艺都发展有限公司

承办方：凤凰艺都上海红坊空间

凤凰艺都上海空间| Phoenix Art Center Shanghai

上海市长宁区淮海西路570号G102

G102, Red Town, No. 570 West Huaihai Road, Changning District, Shanghai

T：021-60908373

Far from the Madding Crowd

The reclusion tradition of Chinese literati comprises the strategic retreat of Confucianism and the voluntary preference for anonymity and poverty to preserve one’s true nature of the Daoism. In the era when everybody is in a hurry, indulging in mountains and rivers becomes a kind of remote imagination. Yet the more chaotic the world, the more we need a rest of our hearts, a spiritual strength to get “far from the madding crowd” from the inside.

The four artists involved in the exhibition, Chai Yiming, He Saibang, Jiang Qigu and Yu Peng all live in metropolis, among urban hustling, yet they all maintain some kind of distance from reality.

Free from cynicism and purposeful pursuit of novelty, their works are possessed of serenity and internal integrity.

Our ancient literati loved mountains and rivers. With ink and water, they sought the universal harmony and engaged in self-cultivation. The four artists share their valuing of the training of mind, and respect for naturalness in art. So the twists originating from modern life in their work give us a trace of the texture of their inner worlds, apart from the reference to the long tradition of Chinese ink art.

LIV Li