2017.06.30-07.02 ｜ART FORMOSA 2017

Artist

Cen Long
Yasuko Hayashi

Info

2017.06.30-2017.07.02
ART FORMOSA 2017
Eslite Hotel

Overview

Cen Long

Chinese, born in 1957, graduated with a master’s degree from Xi An Academy of Fine Arts in 1980. Member of the Chinese Artists Association and an active participant in China’s Eighty-Five Art movement. A former oil painting professor at the Hubei Institute of Fine Arts. He is now a professional painter.

His signature artistic approach consists of a simple style, sophisticated brushwork, rigorous composition, and layered and solid coloring. These mastered techniques engender a strength to his paintings; each piece contains a deeper meanings beneath its various surface qualities. Together, these attributes express values that can withstand the test of time and captivate the imagination. His works evoke a sense of clarity and serenity to the viewer, encouraging those who are burdened by the hustle of modern life to re-experience the aesthetic of tranquility, to return to a more fundamental state of being. Due to the influences of his father, Mr. Cen Jia Wu, who was a renowned sociologist, art historian, and anthropologist, Cen Long pays special attention to the customs of ethnic minorities and the general public, which has become the foundation to his artistic inspiration. Whether through his paintings or illustrations of picture books, Cen Long always imbues his works with humanistic concern and compassion. The characters in his artwork are often those of a lower class, but they express confidence, genuine happiness, and ease in their demeanor. In our era where art is reigned by the economic demands of the market, his paintings are unquestionably different. His art causes one to consider a lifestyle marked by sincerity and exposes the viewers to the culture of everyday customs; with an alternative language of pure artistic expression that sits apart from the trend of the mainstream art market.

Yasuko Hayashi

Born in 1974, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Graduated from Tokyo University of Arts’ Department of Painting (Japanese Painting). Since 2003, she has held solo exhibitions and participated in numerous art fairs in Japan, Italy, Germany, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and China. Her works are acclaimed in both Europe and Asia. She is a rising star in the young contemporary art.

Hayashi uses an abstract realism as a mean to depict the inner worlds of the eastern women. She mainly works with the traditional Japanese painting, which is delicate, pure and exquisite. Her work is devoid of the superficial breeze that some other Japanese paintings exhibits when they fail to portrait something beyond a very apparent and depthless surface; there is a generous and heart-rendering oriental philosophy beneath her complex layers. There is an indescribable sense of mystery and a profound serenity in the landscapes she depicts, a viewer might not only be amazed by the almost palpable thickness of the layers and her layered context, but also yearn the mystic lands in her paintings. The atmosphere she creates on the work, ensnares the viewer’s mind and heart, and by her distinguished skills, she exalts the experience of the viewers to that of a common, but rich and expansive spiritual sense. These sceneries are ethereal, and peaceful, and silently in progress, an affection stemming from the origin of life she creates come into full bloom.