Two Trees - New Work Show of Yang Na and Mu Lei

2010 / 12 / 18 Sat.

2011 / 01 / 23 Sun.

10:00 - 18:00

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Yang Na - Indus


It’s easy to visualize what Yang Na has been dreaming. She makes wishes through her paintings. You can seem to identify what is in her mind everyday or in every phase of her growth. Even though many meaningful symbols appear in Yang Na’s paintings, such as fish, breasts, liquid and so on, we can still actually feel her sensibility as a female artist in real life. We can recognize the sensation, as we all experienced in our dreams before. You can easily distinguish her symbols from conventional symbolism, Yang Na’s artistic language between abstraction and embodiment has made her symbols more substantial while her painting structure has moved her works beyond reality at the same time. The conflict contained in her concepts and the language she uses is highly noticeable in her new series of work. It’s worth mentioning that she has grown as an artist and her impressions of reality and life are richer. This richness can be felt in each painting. I would like to refer Yang Na’s new series as an indus tree. The indus tree has strong vitality. Its luxuriant trunks and branches typify the multiple possibilities of life, just like Yang Na’s paintings of multi-level scenes growing in a dream. The fascinating part is that an indus tree is also a wish-making tree in folk culture. “Wish-making” is Yang Na’s creative state, she brushes her wishes on canvas, her paintings and the Indus tree are interlaced as an idea and real life.



Mu Lei - Bodhi

The bodhi tree is a relative to the indus at first. The bodhi tree and indus tree are two different kinds of trees. Unlike the indus tree, the bodhi tree is a spiritual symbol. The indus tree is more mischievous, mysterious and transformed. In Mu Lei’s language system, he is always trying to free himself from the nest of formalization, and attempting to locate a concept system of his own, this is just like religion. Establishing an accomplished philosophy system is one of the purposes of religion. People often compare Mu Lei with Yang Na in discussion, and the public has lumped the two artists together. But the truth is that aside from some scattered similarities in their works, we can see that Yang Na’s artwork is sensible, soft and thoughtful, but Mu Lei’s artwork is tough, calm, contradictory and philosophical. After understanding those two different vibrations and concepts, I found two life force trees to describe their new works. I would like to distinguish their divergence and differences, even though they are interrelated in innumerable ways, their roots in art are from two different kinds of trees without any doubts. Even though it’s not their decision if they are in the same forest.

Second, in Chinese, the first character in Indus is “Wu” and the second character in bodhi is “Ti”, combined them together becomes “Wu-Ti”, which means “No Title” in Chinese. This highlights the independence from each other and reveals the unknowable identity of their works. Of course it’s meaningless to talk about the independence from each other’s artworks, but as the “same species”, they are still related to each other by using the same language and discussing topics about the ontology of art together, so their works could be homogeneous in a certain level but not their concept. Mu Lei’s new series are images; they are the extension from his paintings. These images are developed from Mu Lei’s rational meditation, he has demonstrated the rationale consistently through all his works. The post-economic crisis situation causes contemplation for the young generation of artists. From Mu Lei’s work, we can see an intense crush and the beauty after the ruin at the same time. This represents symptoms of anxiety. Expecting to interact with his audiences, Mu Lei has placed his images in daily life scenes, this immediately gives a layer of frightening mist to his art elements. From this point of view, artists do have social responsibility. It’s pleasing to see Mu Lei including controversial issues in his work, and the public responds to him sympathetically. Emphasizing ideas and focusing on reality make Mu Lei an ascetic monk. He has studied in depth the connection between the ontology of art and reality, and tried to connect a bridge between them in order to convey his concept completely. This is a deeper level of studying artistic methodology. From this point of view, Mu Lei has practiced under the bodhi tree of art until he has the deep understanding.

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Mulei
Yang Na

2007 Graduated from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Oil painting Department ,Chongqing


Solo Exhibition

2010 Phoenix Tree and Bodhi, Museum of contemporary Art Taipei
2009 The Fable of Fairy Tale,Metaphysical Art Gallery, Taipei
2009 Supple Tension , ART SEASONS ,Zurich ,Switzerland


Group Exhibition

2010 ANIMAMIX----The New Aesthetics of the 21st Century ,Robinsons Art Gallery,,Belgiun
2010 Art Taipei
2010 Filter Window—Young Chinese Artists Group exhibition ,Beyond Art Space,Beijing
2010 Art Karlsruhe
2010 Eliven-In Between Realities and Fiction_Animaimix Biennial 2009-2010 ,Today Art museum,Beijing and
Guangzhou Art museum,Guangzhou
2009 ArtSingapore
2009 Shcontemporary 09,Shanghai
2009 Frist Chongqing Biennale for The Young Artists,Chongqing
2009 China contemporary ArtExibition“60-70-80”in Tours -France
2009 The Dimensions of Double Images , New Age Gallery,,Beijing
2009 New Wave New Power ,Linda Gallery ,Indonesia
2009 China International Gallery Exposition 2009 ,Beijing
2009 Beyond Globalization,Beyond Art Space, Beijing
2009 Merging Emerging-Art, Utopia and Virtual Reality , Museum of contemporary Art Shanghai
2009 ART SEASONS Contemporary Asian Art,Switzerland
2008 100 Tales in Animamix in Linda Gallery,Beijing
2008 Crossroads in OPERA GALLERY,Singapore
2008 Moca Envisage II Butterfly Dream , Museum of contemporary Art Shanghai
2008 Shcontemporary 08,Shanghai
2008 Surfing Animamix,Linda Gallery,,Shanghai
2008 Waiting in the Wings Exhibition ,Beyond Art Space,Beijing
2008 CHINESE DREM WHO'S NEXT? , Gallery Adler ,France
2008 The First Annual Moon River Sculpture Festival---"The Origin",Beijing
2008 Asian Contemporary Art Grop Show:Beyond Cartoon in Beyond Art Space,Beijing
2007 Animamix Biennial: From Modernity to Eternity , Museum of contemporary Art Shanghai
2007 Animamix Hyperlink Exhibition ,Moon River Museum of Contemporary Art,,Beijing
2007 3L4D of Ultra-new Vision of 21st Century Animamix in Taipei National Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial
Hall,Taipei
2007 Chinese Contemporary Art 2005 - 2007 in Yang@Tiroche,Israel
2007 Today Art Student Annual Art Awards, Today Art Museum, Beijing
2007 Fruits of Experimental Contemporary Art Education, Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
2007 Tank Art Center-----Contemporary Art Show,Chongqing
2006 Honorable Mention Eleventh Annual Students Fine Arts Exhibition in Sichuan Fine Arts Institute and
Chongqing Fine Arts Museum,Chongqing
2005 Honorable Mention Tenth Annual Students Fine Arts Exhibition,Sichuan Fine Arts Institute and Chongqing
Fine Arts Museum
2004 The Third ChongqingArt Exhibition ,Chongqing Fine Arts Museum

2002 Graduated from the Attached High School of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute
2006 Graduated with a B.F.A.from the Oil Painting Department of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute
2010 Graduated with a M.A .from the Oil Painting Department of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute


Solo exhibition:

2010 Phoenix Tree and Bodhi, Museum of contemporary Art Taipei, Taipei
2009 Supple Tension , solo Show ,Switzerland Art Seasons Gallery
2009 The Fable of Fairy Tale,Metaphysical Art Gallery, Taipei


Group Exhibition :

2010 ANIMAMIX----The New Aesthetics of the 21st Century ,Robinsons Art Gallery,,Belgiun
2010 Art Taipei
2010 Filter Window-----Young Chinese Artists Group Exhibition, Beijing
2010 Art Karlsruhe ,Germany
2010 Another World another Boundary , Tang Contemporary Art,Bangkok
2010 Eliven-In Between Realities and Fiction_Animaimix Biennial 2009-2010,Today Art
museum,Beijing and Guangzhou Art museum,Guangzhou
2009 First ChongQing Biennale for the Young Artists ,ChongQing
2009 She’s Vision2009 International Contemporary FemaleArtists Exhibition ,Jiang ShanArt
Museum
2009 Zhī Hū Zhě Yě——Art Rhetoric, Redstar Gallery, BeiJing
2009 real-life fairy tales ,Woman Invitation , Beyond Art Space, BeiJing
2009 The simple art of parody , Museum of contemporary Art Taipei, Taipei

2009 New Wave New Power, Linda Gallery, Indonesia
2009 Beyond Globalization in Beyond Art Space ,Beyond Art Space, ,BeiJing

2009 Merging Emerging-Art, Utopia and Virtual Reality, Museum of contemporary Art Shanghai
2009 ART SEASONS Contemporary Asian Art, Art Seasons Gallery, Switzerland
2008 Moca Envisage II Butterfly Dream , Museum of contemporary Art Shanghai
2008 Shcontemporary 08,Shanghai
2008 Surfing Animamix , Linda Gallery, Shanghai
2008 Waiting in the Wings Exhibition , Beyond Art Space, Beijing
2008 Ongoing----- Woman Invitation ,Mozen Art Museum, Beijing
2008 SUPPERGIRL---the Prophesy of Feminie aesthetics in 21st century , Art Seasons, Switzerland
2008 The First Annual Moon River Sculpture Festival---"The Origin" , Moon river MOCA, Beijing
2008 Beyond Cartoon Asian Contemporary Art Group show , Beyond Art Space, Beijing
2008 Bizarr Flavor ---Contemporary Art of China Invitation Exhibition,,Seoul ,Korea
2008 MILK BATH win merit awards in the 5th Master of Arts Exhibition
Chongqing Art Museum
2007 Animamix Biennial: From Modernity to Eternity, MOCA Art Museum, Shanghai
2007 3L4D of Ultra-new Vision of 21st Century Animamix National Dr. Sun
Yat-sen Memorial Hall , Taipei
2007 the 21st century Neo- Pop Artist exhibition at Miami Art Basel
2007 Continuation and Transcendence 30 years of the Sichan of Oil Painting.,Beijing
2007 1976—2006 “Sichuan Painting School” Academic Retrospection, China Ministry of Culture,
Beijing
2007 With the Same Feeling Exhibion ---- Contemporary Art exhibition ,Chengdu
2007 Beijing 798 Art Festival ----70'Contemporary Art of China Invitation Exhibition
2007 Animal Carnival ---Contemporary Art of China Invitation Exhibition ,ChengDu Art Museum
2007 Animamix Hyperlink Exhibition in Moon River Museum of Contemporary Art ,Beijing
2007 Tank Art Center-----Contemporary Art Show ,ChongQing
2006 Contemporary Art of China Invitation Exhibition ---Frolic Picture(,Shenzhen Art Museum and
Chongqing Art Museum
2006 The Bridges at art Basel Miami Beach 2006
2006 merit award of Luo Zhongli scholarship
2006 Shenzhen He Xiangning Art museum “new vision 06” –the Third National Exhibition of
High-Quality Works of Oil Painting Graduating Students of Art Universities and Colleges
2006 Oil Painting Graduation Exhibition of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute Ostentatious Age
and Tropical Fish win second and merit awards .
2005 Annual Exhibition of Oil Painting Department of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute and Annual
Exhibition of the Institute
2004 Annual Exhibition of Oil Painting Department of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute and Annual Exhibition
of the Institute
2003 Chongqing Oil Painting Exhibition

Artworks

I can’t fall asleep without your message
Fastoso Longliness
Beyond The Dream
House of the Heart
After the meal, I could feel lethargy overtaking me
Viki Lulu
In the Pot
Spring sleeping
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