30/5/2015
Meng Liping
BMart, Beijing
Bountiful Desires. Collaging a large number of colored stationery tapes on the canvas and into the space, the artist has made full use of the various adhesive tapes abound with social and cultural attributes, to sensibility a field full of the tension of energy.
BM ART is pleased to announce MENG Liping’s solo exhibition, Bountiful Desires, is going to open on 31st May at JING WANG JIA YUAN flat space. This is her first exhibition at the gallery, and it lasts until 30th June, 2015.
Collaging a large number of colored stationery tapes on the canvas and into the space, MENG Liping has made full use of the various adhesive tapes abound with social and cultural attributes, to sensibility and subtly constructed a field full of the tension of energy. She has not only revealed the transmissive energy from the passional subjects to the space in the pictures, but also passed on the energy to the art exhibition space by setting mechanical devices installation, which formed an energetic field in the sequence.
In this field, “the lust” is the initial energy that constitutes the inherent logic and the aesthetic forming in the art practice of MENG Liping. Three basic human desires, eating, sleeping and lust, are mentioned in the Bible. While “the lust” that shows in Liping’s works has the connotation of three levels: the first one is "the body electric" sings by poet Walt Whitman; the second refers to the social and cultural trends under the influence of modern cultural rebellion thoughts such as the 1970's rock and roll agitation etc.; the third, MENG’s "lust" has also pointed to those uncertainty of fantasy and reality that the human keeps to the world in the evolutionary history. In the work "The Code", for instance, the artist has preseted collaging rules before starting the work, and they turns to be some surreal works with interesting structures.
The title, Bountiful Desires comes from a Chinese poet, MU Xin (1927-2011), whose poem “My Bountiful Desire” shows the bountiful desire grows and falls: 'My Bountiful Desire/On a particularly quiet night/My desire grows/Falls bountifully/On branches and window frames/Lip eddy, breast piers, thigh ravine/Plains and distant hills, path after path/All covered with my desire/For the next day/It will fall again, bountifully/Quieter, larger/My desire'
Image: invitation
Opening: Sunday 31 May 2015, 3-6pm
BM Art Beijing
Chaoyang District, Rm.602, Unit 1, Building 9, Area1
Tue - Sun 11am to 5pm