Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum will hold the second phase of Young-Artist Project "Circumstance and Attitude": YOUTH NOTES. 26 painting works done between 2013 and 2014 by the artist Chi Ming will be exhibited from 28th September to 28th October in the museum.
As the old saying goes "a son inherits his father", art circle is of no exception. As a child brought up by consecutive two generations who embarked on art as a career, it is by no means a surprise for Chi Ming to step into art with such a resourceful cultivation. Compared to his grandparents and parents, Chi is the very fortunate one who can dive into and enjoy the freedom of art. All those uninhibited natures of him is thus being released yet facilitated fully through his highly expressive oil paintings.
By the intense yet meticulous colors and a sharp yet real touch, he always can capture the souls of modern young people, be it men or women. He reveals the lives of living souls with intense emotions by conjuring a wild picture of young privacy, alluring lust, bold and direct attitude toward sex, as well as the constant pursuit of a tomorrow of freedom and imagination. Nevertheless, deeply down his heart one can still feel somehow the childishly fragile and naïve psychology of a little boy, who miles and laughs lovely while still with a sense of slight sadness and loneliness.
The artist wants to express the contrast of youths between his and his parents’. "Our youth is all about self-affected mediocrity." This explains all those trivial and stale depictions all over his paintings. He chooses to face them right at the face. As he once put it, "A long period of my adolescence was obsessed with the sensual and alluring picturing about male and female. Actually, my curiosity toward sex had been developed far earlier than others even though I hadn't even reached my sexual maturity yet at that time." In such a way, Chi Ming has vaguely yet fully explored various possibilities of the subject, privacy. All his explorations and presentations have come down to those small-size paintings as a visual archive of youth, or a moving film, or what we name it as "Youth Notes".
About the artist
Born in Yantai in 1984, Chi Ming later got a graduate degree from The Three studio of Oil Painting Department in CAFA, as the student of artist Liu Xiaodong. Currently he is working and living in Beijing.
About Young-Artist Project "Circumstance and Attitude"
It is a new project by Minsheng Art Museum, which plans to annually invite 8 to 10 young artists to come to independently exhibit their new arts or projects.
About the exhibition
Duration: 28 Sep - 28 Oct 2014
Venue: Minsheng Art Museum
Opening Hours: 10:00-18:00 (Tue-Sun)
Tel: 021-62828729
Add: No.570 Huaihai West Road, Shanghai
Courtesy of the artist and Shanghai Mingsheng Art Museum, for further information please visit www.minshengart.com.
