HUANG Long: Frontier: Curated by WANG Yaoli

BONIAN SPACE is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition in China, Frontier, by the artist Huang Long from January 20 to February 26, 2024. Curated by Wang Yaoli, the exhibition features over ten recent paintings by the artist. Following Huang Long's exploration of abstract painting, the pieces integrate narrative, symbolic, and sensory imagery into abstraction.

The concept of "preconsciousness," existing beyond the scope of awareness but within people's memories, is a crucial starting point guiding Huang Long's creative process. Devoted to abstract expression, Huang Long adeptly extracts or separates emotional triggers from music, text, and images. The creative process transitions from writing to imagery, featuring dynamic and rhythmic lines resembling water droplets seeking companionship—flowing, dispersing, squeezing, overlapping, yet never genuinely merging. Combined with free and airy colors, these artworks reveal the perplexities and contradictions of human nature.

Then, Huang Long further incorporates narrative and metaphorical elements into his abstract artistic language. Extracting scattered memories from preconsciousness, he places them in scenes closely tied to everyday life, such as pools and parks. While these scenes and objects may seem unrelated, their coexistence and fusion exhibit a peculiar harmony and balance in a spiritual realm detached from linear logic.

Through the painting, Huang Long observes contemporary individuals' complex and ever-changing mental states from the personal perspective. In semi-natural urban environments, people yearn to find a sense of belonging in a life where the unfamiliar and familiar coexist yet consciously detach themselves. The surreal world created by Huang Long reflects the dreamlike birth of fantasies, originating from reality but transcending it. Huang Long sensually narrates those absurd and unclear stories through painting from the public to the private, from the known to the unknown.