Liang Chang Sheng

World of Joyblins 

梁長勝的極樂仙居  

Curated by 

Luchia Meihua Lee

Chelsea Art Museum is pleased to present "Liang Chang Sheng: World of Joyblins

featuring  long scroll ink drawing, paper cutting, painting, sculpture, and mixed media works that highlight significantperiods in Liang Chang Sheng's development and the different techniques he has employed.

Liang Chang Sheng, an artist from Beijing, has created a multi-perspective wonderland that contains eternal happiness for all creatures. These masterworks were drawn by a thin brush on paper. A delicate thin ink line creates a world that is seemingly a traditional Chinese literati garden, or a western urban landscape, in which all the creatures are in harmony with each other.   They look like human beings, animals, or a fusion of both; some are distorted babies without bellies, Cupid-like figures, or angels flying in Chinese Taoist areas or the Buddhist pureland.  They play around on the land, fly in the sky, or just perch in the trees, or on international landmarks.  It is a mix between a fairy tale's forest and an Immortals mountain.  In this exhibition, two extraordinary 8-meter long  brush ink "line drawing" scroll painting s regally look out over the museum. Careful examination of the art reveals famous artworks such as  Duchamp's "Fountain",  Munch's "Scream"  Jan Van Eyck's"The Arnolfini Marriage," landmarks like the Egyptian Sphinx,  and Stonehenge. Thus, this art can appeal to various audiences of different ages and backgrounds, and arouse a feeling of mystery and puzzlement.  At the same time, it draws the viewers to investigate the details and deeper learning of his works.

Liang was born in Beijing in 1967, and raised in Shandong province. Since childhood, he has showed a striking talent for and interest in art. Liang was aware of traditional folk art from the time he was in middle school.  He studied at the Beijing Professional Art School from 1983 to 1986, then continued by majoring in decorative Arts at Peli University. He chose paper cutting as his primary art form when in 1994 he entered the Beijing Central Art Academy. Afterward, his creativity was not confined to papercutting, but expanded to pottery, ink drawing, and painting for contemporary surreal expression.  Satirical figures always dominated his art work. In 1993, he began to mix enlarged, distorted background images with main figurative subjects such as Buddhas and self invented big-headed whimsical creatures.  After 1996, Liang experimented with color; he tried a different acrylic color palette and created a repetitive pattern of bizarre humanoid figures. Afterwards, he developed a long scroll format in which he used a brush to make very delicate strokes.  He has shown and collected in numerous international museums internationally.

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