25 Feb. 2024 - 31 Mar.
Yang Yang:Pretend
Artists: Yang Yang
Duration:25 Feb. 2024 - 31 Mar.
Opening: 4pm, 25 Feb.(Sun.), 2024
Yang Yang's artworks have always been rooted in the secular environment in which he exists, whether it's childhood memories of the Hulun Buir grasslands or the mundane fragments of Guangzhou's buildings and alleys, all delicately reflected in his work. Common things always possess certain universal traits that satisfy human desires, while the diverse expressions of human nature determine the myriad changes in worldly objects. Goodness and nobility, evil and inferiority, all human spirits and desires are laid bare on the objects. In recent years, Yang Yang's extensive exploration of ready-made products and handicrafts has made him keenly aware of the rampant popularity of vulgarity. Those originally bad, hollow, and unattractive things, through deliberate embellishment, artificiality, and deceit, are packaged and promoted as noble objects. And those beguiled by the external appearances flock to them without discernment. The price of credulity will be painful; besides the inflation of forms and the proliferation of deception, genuine and beneficial things and emotions will also gradually dim.