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4/7/2015

Jiang Peiyuan

BMart, Beijing

BM ART is pleased to announce JIANG Peiyuan’s second solo exhibition, FORMULA, is going to open on July 5th, 2015 at JING WANG space. The exhibition lasts until Aug. 5th.

In recent art practices, JIANG Peiyuan is more focused on the materials’ own language such as their structure and properties. By masking their identity and functional attributes, he has been re-examining, digging and expand the vocabulary of these materials. Peiyuan has been fascinated the "superficial things" for a long time, he thinks on the one hand, 'surface' refers to objects in contact with the outside world (Surface), on the other hand, it also refers to the external phenomenon (Appearance), and the surface itself is the assistance or interference to the contents.

In his new work “A roll of paper”, JIANG continues the simulation of visual after-image (a roll of corrugated paper stained by white paint) as he did in the previous work “2016”. He uses watercolor and printing ink to simulate a used corrugated paper on a roll of drawing paper. Straightforward title pointed out that the material nature of the drawing paper and corrugated paper, namely no matter how different of their surface texture and internal structure, they are merely "a roll of paper" in nature of the material.

Similarly, inquiring into the "representation" and "essence" is also appearing in the series of "BW" (bubble wrap). In the shipping experience of art exhibition, JIANG Peiyuan noticed that all works were packed with bubble wrap, which dispelled the differences in the content and form of all the works when they are unopened. Inspired by this, he used acrylic paint to moulding the surface of a bubble wrap then stretched it onto a canvas, in this case the bubble wrap turns from a packaging material into the art work itself. JIANG talks about the series of works, "my works represent complement of binary relations such as the existence and non-existence, inside and outside, obscuration and display. Besides the contrast view experience caused by context switched and sense of cold humor has also been one of my creative motifs."

This exploration is particularly prominent in the work "red orange, blue cobalt": This piece is also starting from the superficial difference of plastic products by the means of using acrylic paints to simulate a flattened plastic ball. It displays that from acrylic paints to plastic balls, though the volume of each object has changed, but their essence as "plastic products" still stay.

If the above three pieces/ groups of works seems from the same creative clue, then the lastest series works “CB” which mainly showed in this exhibition can be seemed as a further and deeper experimental practice of JIANG Peiyuan. In this series works, as a kind of industrial material, the structure and daily function of corrugated board itself attracted him: Visually, it contains the characteristics of Minimalism Art and Optical Art, which he thinks precisely make this daily object has the potential to become an art work. Then Peiyuan directly processed some art experiments onto the corrugated boards: he used plane and hammer which his father often uses in building decoration (his father is running building construction business) to formed some indentations in different directions of points and lines on the surface. These indentations subtly manipulate the light to form rich changes of shadows, just like wonderful traces of light itself on the corrugated board. Here, the light is not only the media for views, but also becomes an essential factor to complete the work. The artist used the combined action of the color, the texture and the light to create images that have a sense of space and time, also the motion. Moreover, these works make the viewer convert their viewing perspective, as well as deepen and expand these materials’ visual vocabulary.

Image: Invitation

Opening: Jul 5, 2015, 16:00, Sunday

BMart Jing Wang Space
602, Unit 1, Building 9, Beijing

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