OPENING: SATURDAY 30 APRIL, 4:00 – 6:00 PM
(Exhibition: 30 April – 11 June 2016)
Hadrien de Montferrand Gallery is delighted is pleased to present “Grey”, a solo show by Pan Xiaorong. The exhibition features a series of 13 artworks inspired by Beijing’s environmental issues and dealing with the complexity of contemporary times in China.
Pan Xiaorong (1985) is a representative of the new abstraction movement that arose in China in the last half decade and carries on the quest for structure, space, line and repetitions by combining western references with Chinese elements opened by Ding Yi in 1988. Pan Xiaorong has been rigourously painting black-and-white and geometrically structured cardboard carvings with meticulous accuracy. He creates geometric and hypnotic artworks that seem to transform the uncontrollable reality into a disciplined abstraction through simple tools and material like knives, cardboard and ink. In 2014, struck by contrasting feelings after reading a report on Beijing pollution, the artist decided to incorporate this dual sense of beauty and oppression in his work introducing a new shade to paint his signature black and white squares: Grey.
This new series represents both a shift and an extension of his past works, and seems to introduce a new element of social awareness in the artist’s work.
A graduate of Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts in 2008, Pan Xiarong is currently living and working in Shanghai. In the last few years he has held various solo exhibitions across China, including at Hangzhou’s HDM Gallery, and Shanghai’s Am Art Center, M Art Center, and Himalayas Museum of Art. Pan Xiaorong’s work has also been part of international group exhibitions including “Big Draft”, Shanghai Contemporary Art from the Sigg Collection by the Museum of Fine Arts in Berne (Switzerland), “Seven Young Artists” by Beijing Commune, “(Mis)Perception” by Galerie Paul Freches (Paris). In 2016 he participated in Hadrien de Montferrand Gallery’s thematic exhibition “New Geometrical Abstraction” for Art Basel Hong Kong.
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