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Swamps & Cicadas : Records and Metaphors
Exhibition Date: August 4 – 7, 2016
Opening Reception: August 4, 2016 from 18:00-21:00
Artists Gathering and Discussion: August 6th, 2016 from 14:00- 17:00
Gallery 50, 50 Gladstone Ave, Toronto
Gallery Hours: Wed – Sun, 13:00-17:00
TORONTO, ON – Art Calorie is pleased to present Swamps & Cicadas: Records and Metaphors, a joint exhibition of two contemporary Chinese artists, Chen Minghui and Zou Qionghui, on view at Gallery 50 on Thursday, August 4, 2016 and running through August 7. The opening reception takes place from 18:00-21:00 on Thursday, August 4, 2016. The exhibit is free and open to the public. Wine and snacks will be provided, please register below.
Swamps & Cicadas: Records and Metaphors features important new work from Chen Minghui and Zou Qionghui. Their art expresses their reflections on the relationship between human society and nature employing the symbolism of swamps and cicadas.
Chen’s Swamp examines the destruction of nature caused by modern society. He preserves his childhood memory of swamps in record-style paintings. Walking through time and space, Chen chooses the simplicity of black and white to express his understanding of nature. His artwork questions whether human beings can interact harmoniously with nature.
Zou’s Zen State interprets life through a cicadas’ life span; in her paintings, cicadas become coded language. They are metaphors for humanity’s spiritual loss in a materialistic society. Can our species escape the emptiness of life? Like cicadas reborn?
Swamps & Cicadas: Records and Metaphors showcases the unique artistic practices of two modern Artists whose work will undoubtedly resonate with viewers inevitably their stimulating thinking. Chen Minghui’s and Zou Qionghui’s perspectives offer new interpretations of the world which challenge traditional values and pictorial conventions of the past.
The exhibit is free and open to the public. Wine and snacks will be provided, please register below.
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