2015.1.10-2015.1.24｜The Silver Age

Artists

Cen Long

Info

2015.1.10-2015.1.24
The Silver Age
Hann Art Salon

Overview

On October 25, 2014, The Silver Age: Cen Long Solo Exhibition opened at the Today Art Museum in Beijing, marking the artist’s first solo exhibition in China after more than 30 years of painting. The exhibition received widespread acclaim from various audiences. In response to the anticipation of Taiwanese viewers, the exhibition will grandly open at Han Art Space on January 10, 2015, showcasing Cen Long’s recent works along with a selection of his classic masterpieces.

Cen Long’s paintings present a narrative mythology of modern individuals who have lost their way, searching for a path home. They also serve as a psychological record of this journey. Within these memories, there are both subtle, compassionate stories and profound laments about the absence of time, depicting the interactions between humans, animals, and nature. His choice of these themes is likely driven by psychological motivations—it is both an instinctive resistance to urbanized civilization and an imaginative projection of his own utopian space.

Focusing on laboring people and northern nomadic tribes, Cen Long seamlessly integrates subjective imagination with natural depiction, crafting self-sufficient and symbolically significant ideal worlds. This pursuit of a personal utopia elevates his work to a near-religious dimension.