Liu Wei

at Long March Space (Art 43 Basel 2012)

Beyond the Sky Limits, 2012

Sky is the dream. Your life is gray, dull and depressing(the lower gray ribbon). Then you have a clearing in your thinking(a small white line). You have to act on your impulse. You start working hard(the reddish ribbon). And when you think you are almost broke and you don't have strength to go on, you get a break-through(the white ribbon). You are in the vacuum. You left your old comfortable life, but you haven't get to your destination. It is scary to be in the vacuum, but you know where you are heading and this gives you power to continue. Then you hit the jackpot(the blue ribbon). You have arrived to your dream. You are almost blacked out of the ecstasy (the black ribbon). When you gain back the conscience, you found yourself in a new unknown reality(the white ribbon with burgundy hue). You need to do something. You start working hard(the burgundy ribbon). It leads to a gray, dull and depressing life(the upper gray ribbon). You need a dream, now!

Sophie Von Hellerman

at Greene Naftali ( Frieze Art Fair New York 2012)

September 01 (explosion)

Autumn is very beautiful. It is very colorful : orange, yellow, green, brown. It is bright, cheerful, sexy. And depressing. It is sad, because you know all this beauty is a preamble to emptiness, cold, gray skies, rains and winter. This is the cycle of nature  : everything dies to give room to new things. The autumn is a good reminder that the time is going by as a river with a strong stream. And we will have our September sooner or later.

Anselm Reyle

Anselm Reyle at Almine Rech Gallery (Art Basel Miami Beach 2011)

Untitled

This is a life of a person. First, there is nothing. You are starting to learn about borders and boundaries. Then you are trying to revolt (the pink stains at the right bottom). Eventually it goes away, and you start filling the blanks in your life(center). At some point you start degenerating, your life became black.At the end the black turns into a blank again.

Chris Johanson

Chris Johanson at Galleri Nicolai Wallner (Art Basel Miami Beach 2011)

Malmo Painting #2

You need a lot of energy, talent and hard work to get to the top (or to the center). But when you are at the top, you don't have more aspirations, you don't have new challenges. The only challenge you have is to keep your position. This makes you big, harden, inflexible - a stone. And stones even in the middle of a whirlpool sink.This is a cycle of any system from a artist to an empire. 

Yang Yanping

Yang Yanping at Peter Findlay Gallery

Autumn Symphony

The beauty of decay. The autumn is very colorful. Yellow, red, blue sky(on sunny days). But don't fool yourself, it's a demise. It turns the colors into black and ugly. The brown overtones shows that you understand that it's a cycle of nature. It's necessary to shred the old, so the young can grow. But still it makes you sad. The bright background is not what you think. It is not nice. It's winter.