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Dou Rongjun Solo ExhibitionOpening: Saturday, October 28, 2017, 4:00PM-7:00PMThrough December 5, 2017AroundSpace Gallery...
25/10/2017

Dou Rongjun Solo Exhibition
Opening: Saturday, October 28, 2017, 4:00PM-7:00PM
Through December 5, 2017
AroundSpace Gallery
Suite 703, No. 33, Sichuan Middle Road, Shanghai, 200002, China

Collective Individualism IVOpening reception: Saturday September 9, 2017, 4-7PMThrough October 23, 2017AroundSpace Galle...
06/09/2017

Collective Individualism IV
Opening reception: Saturday September 9, 2017, 4-7PM
Through October 23, 2017
AroundSpace Gallery
Suite 703, No. 33 Sichuan M. Road, near Yan An E. Road
www.aroundspace.org

Non-objective Painting, opened at AroundSpace on June 10, 2017!
15/06/2017

Non-objective Painting, opened at AroundSpace on June 10, 2017!

纸上艺博会今晚开幕啦！最新的一封VIP邮件引用了周围艺术画廊艺术家付小桐的作品！ Art on Paper opens tonight! AroundSpace Gallery artist Fu Xiaotong's work is fe...
02/03/2017

纸上艺博会今晚开幕啦！最新的一封VIP邮件引用了周围艺术画廊艺术家付小桐的作品！
Art on Paper opens tonight! AroundSpace Gallery artist Fu Xiaotong's work is featured in the most recent e-blast!

Mark your calendar please! March 2, 6-10PM, Pier 36, 299 South Street, New York
17/02/2017

Mark your calendar please! March 2, 6-10PM, Pier 36, 299 South Street, New York

10/02/2017

Art on Paper is an international art fair held March 2-5, 2017

Artist: Peng Liu
07/09/2016

Artist: Peng Liu

Artist Xinji Shi
07/09/2016

Artist Xinji Shi

Artist Zejiong Shao (b. 1975)
07/09/2016

Artist Zejiong Shao (b. 1975)

AroundSpace Gallery: Collective Individualism III | 周围艺术画廊 - 9月新展：集体个人主义 III Opening; September 10, 2016
07/09/2016

AroundSpace Gallery: Collective Individualism III | 周围艺术画廊 - 9月新展：集体个人主义 III Opening; September 10, 2016

AroundSpace Gallery is pleased to present A Moment in Time: Recent Works by Dou Rongjun and Tang Shu in late spring 2016...
27/04/2016

AroundSpace Gallery is pleased to present A Moment in Time: Recent Works by Dou Rongjun and Tang Shu in late spring 2016. Coincidentally, both artists turned to nature: water, forests, snowy bamboo, and peach blossoms. It is rare to see such pure and tranquil paintings in today's materialistic, chaotic world.

More than a century ago American author Thoreau moved to a self-built house near Walden Pond in Massachusetts and lived there for two years. By choosing to live in solitude, Thoreau did not intend to abandon or reject human society, but to get close to nature and contemplate the meaning of life. Thoreau was always against slavery and advocated for protection of the environment. His philosophy of civil disobedience remarkably influenced Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi and American civil rights activist Martin Luther King.

In these two artists' works, we discover their reverence for nature and empathy for all creatures, just like Thoreau. In his Tide series, Dou Rong jun continued his exploration based on the same series started in 2013, and concealed billows under peaceful surfaces. He mixed oil paints with pastel, rendered a thin layer as seen in old master paintings, somehow creating luxurious shades and tones. His Snow Bamboo series demonstrated the tenacious vitality of plants in the severe cold; meanwhile paying homage to a Chinese literati painting motif, Three Friends of Winter (pine, bamboo, and plum), with Western oil painting skill.

Another admirer of Thoreau, the late Chinese poet Wei An once wrote: trees are the wishes and the first inhabitants of the land; wherever there are trees, there are hopes of the land. Tang Shu kept close observance of nature, especially to trees. His seemingly careless brushstrokes captured the trees breathing in nature. The “looking up” perspective made the trees as grand as monuments. Paul Gladston commented on Tang's work, saying that his painting has "an austere and rigorously organized, though still evidently spontaneous, first-order depiction of nature."

Dou Rongjun and Tang Shu's paintings rejected any conceptual significance, and showed great interest in nature; they not only revealed the artists' admiration for nature, but also their deep concern for the destiny of human beings. In today's world, we face increasing destruction of the environment and see too many man-made products. A beautiful, natural moment in time is extremely invaluable. They are captured by these artists and framed on the canvases, in order to envoke our nostalgia for nature.

A Moment In Time: Dou Rongjun and Tang Shu
27/04/2016

A Moment In Time: Dou Rongjun and Tang Shu

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Suite 703, No. 33, Sichuan Middle Road
Shanghai
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Friday 11:00 - 18:30
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