Exhibition View
IMS of Modern Artland unveiled “Huang Keyi: Inner Landscapes” at Sanlitun in Beijing. The exhibition is divided into two series, “Mountains” and “Fruits”, which display the artist’s latest paintings that he created between 2023 and 2024, supplemented by sculptures, videos and 3D printing installations. Huang intends to explore the mutual generation between individual experience and the natural world, and the infinite possibilities of ontological reconstruction after the body escapes from the external production mechanism in his work. The exhibition remains on view till October 19.
Exhibition View
“The artist has devoted himself to the printmaking research for a long time, and he has returned to the easel creation which shows his solid printmaking skills. This exhibition can be regarded as his return to the inner self, and it is also his gaze and imagination of the ‘inner landscapes,’” states Li Hanning, curator of this exhibition, “The works on display showcase Huang Keyi’s continuous focus on digital imaging and biotechnology as he abandons the rigorous physiological anatomy and the representational expression of landscape painting, allowing the body to move and the color blocks to freely collide with each other.”
Exhibition View
The exhibition revolves around two series of easel paintings: “Mountains”and “Fruits”. The former contains everything constructed “inside”, leading the audience to immerse in the original survival experience; the latter directly confronts the “body” id, and the seemingly familiar yet contradictorily unfamiliar cells evoke a purer self-cognition in the viewers. ”
Huang Keyi, Mountain 2024072001, Oil on canvas, 180cm×180cm, 2024
Huang Keyi, Mountain 2024072201, Oil on canvas，120cm×120cm, 2024
Huang Keyi, Mountain 2024071502, Oil on canvas, 150cm×100cm, 2023
Huang Keyi, Fruit 2024071301, Oil on canvas, 60cm×60cm, 2024
Huang Keyi, Fruit 2024021603, Oil on canvas, 80cm×80cm, 2024
About the Artist
Born in Hunan in 1980, Huang Keyi studied at the High School Affiliated to the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) and the Printmaking Department of CAFA. He now lives and works in Beijing and Shanghai. He has held solo exhibitions at Today Art Museum and Huaian Art Museum. His works have been featured in the National Art Museum of China, Centre Pompidou, Hunan Provincial Art Museum, CAFA Art Museum, Guan Shanyue Art Museum, School of Art at Peking University, Art Museum of Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, Nanjing Museum, Chongqing Art Museum, and so forth. Huang was awarded the Excellence Prize at the Fourth National Youth Art Works Exhibition and the Arte Laguna Prize in Italy.
About the Exhibition
Huang Keyi: Inner Landscapes
Academic Advisor: Zhao Li
Curator: Li Hanning
Organizer: IMS of Modern Artland
Special Thanks: IMS
Duration: 2024.9.25-10.19
Opening: 2024.9.25 15：00-18：00
Venue: IMS of Modern Artland (No.5 Courtyard, Sanlitun West 5th Street, Chaoyang District, Beijing)
Courtesy of IMS of Modern Artland, Edited (EN) by Sue/CAFA ART INFO.
