Beautiful World 2008
Works of Zhao Yanan
2008.11.08 - 30

Zhao Ya nan has described a world having both disaster and happiness--a beautiful world with blooming flowers, playing children at battlefield, violent flowing magma as well as disaster and happiness. Brilliant color, sharp lines, mild bleeding and fine texture consisted of Zhao Ya nan’ conflicted and contradictory inner world. With years of academic study, Zhao Ya nan laid a solid foundation for skillful using various painting techniques and created large-sized works telling complete but obscure predictions.

Mixing reality, future, memory, magic and dream, Zhao Ya nan combined moments and scenes that are totally not compatible. With vitality of youngster, his active brush attempted to depict subconscious of human being. Without thinking too much, his process of painting was the process of brush-wandering with subconscious. By making up irrelevant things and different inspirations, he produced distinguish painting. People, rock and fire were in a same painting but mistaken time and space evoke viewers’ fantasy.