HUMOR BUT PROFOUND LONELINESS

LXJ MODERN OIL PAINTINGS EXHIBITION

 

 

 

 

EXHIBITION DATES:

4.1ST - 4.21TH 2006 9:30 AM - 6:00 PM

 

 

HUMOR BUT PROFOUND LONELINESS

LXJ MODERN OIL PAINTINGS EXHIBITION

 

 

 

Humor but profound loneliness¡ª¡ªLooking at the ¡°Big Boy Series¡±, I am amused; they¡¯re funny; yet at the same time I feel vaguely shocked. An adolescent with a deformed body is the subject of all the paintings, he is intently playing meaningless games. Though his toys are string balls, small stools mirrors and other odds and ends, the main toy is himself. Perhaps he is experimenting with certain possibilities in his arms, legs or body; perhaps pursuing a useless diversion; perhaps he¡¯s not doing anything, but merely assuming certain attitudes of existence. He is the player and also the object of the game. There is only one player in it, and definitely no second participant. Though there are two boys in some of the paintings, the second is simply a mirror image of the first. The game is meaningless, yet does have meaning. We are not entirely clear about the identity, gender or nationality of this adolescent who wears earrings, a bracelet, and a brassiere, but he is representative of modern China and even the life-styles of people of all colors in the present-day world. With the rapid pace of development of material conditions and changes in the structure of society, social intercourse and real communication between people has lessened. So isolation , loneliness, narcissism and infantile autism have unexpectedly arisen to trouble people in China as well as in other countries; this is both a Chinese and world-wide social problem.

The paintings in the ¡°Big Boy Series¡± are excellent works not only because of their demonstration of consummate technical skill and perfect employment of color, but even more important for their unity of philosophy and art, and the unified story they tell of a painter¡¯s life and

Thoughts ¡­¡­

 

 

 

 

 

 

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