'Paint for Life! / Trevor Yeung: Soft conch' on view at Aranya Art Center
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'Paint for Life! / Trevor Yeung: Soft conch' on view at Aranya Art Center
Zhang Donghui, River Walk, 2024. Spray paint and acrylic on paper, waterproof cover, and scenic area signage, dimensions variable. Commissioned by Aranya Art Center. Installation view, Paint for Life!, Aranya Art Center, 2024. Photo: Sun Shi.



QINHUANGDAO.- In 1975, the No Name Painting Group, China’s first unofficial contemporary artist group, traveled twice to Beidaihe for collective plein air painting activities. Beginning in the 1960s, despite the high-pressure social environment and monolithic aesthetic ideas that predominated at the time, these artists began to gather in Beijing’s parks and inner suburbs to paint from life, creating artworks conveying the natural landscape while emphasizing the free exploration of form, line, and color in their painting language. They emphasized individual perception and experience, using their interactions with the outside world to probe truth, goodness, and beauty, to resist the shackles of reality. In this way, they demonstrated artistic aspirations and subjective agency transcending time and space.

Over the past few years, against the backdrop of the public health crisis, people have been heading outdoors more often, exploring their interactions with the outside world in a new light. This exhibition aims to rekindle the practice of painting from nature, an activity open to everyone, but also a creative method that has grown increasingly rigid—as artistic praxis, and as a strategy of response, it catalyzes individual awareness and the potential to confront reality in times of turmoil and within frameworks of authority.

This exhibition has commissioned new creations from 11 artists and 4 artist groups highly active today, with the goal of expanding notions and mediums of painting from life, and the contemporary relevance of this framework for action. Since 1975, numerous members of the No Name Painting Group returned to Beidaihe and also traveled to Jinshanling. Setting out from the two Aranya communities, the commissioned artists in this exhibition have come to this seemingly ordinary place on the edge of the north China plains, drawing from their keen insights and powerful vitality to break outwards and penetrate inwards, forging a dialogue across time and space with No Name’s 1975 Beidaihe paintings, which are now being exhibited together for the first time.

Here, painting from life is more than just a form of technical training; it is an act of creation that transforms embodied experience, the spiritual practice of the construction of subjectivity, an endeavor at once quotidian and courageous.

This exhibition is organized by Damien Zhang, Director of the Aranya Art Center, together with artist Chen Xiaoyi and Curatorial Assistant Gao Liangjiao.

Trevor Yeung: Soft conch

Aranya Art Center presents Trevor Yeung’s first museum solo exhibition in mainland China, Soft conch, showcasing seven new works and a large-scale sculpture jointly commissioned by Gasworks (London) and Para Site (Hong Kong). This exhibition is also the artist’s first institutional presentation since representing Hong Kong at this year’s Venice Biennale. Soft conch engages viewers through multiple sensory dimensions including sight, scent, and sound, the immersive experience drawing them into a world of human emotion woven from a web of interspecies connections.

The exhibition is organized by Damien Zhang, Director of the Aranya Art Center, and Curatorial Assistant Jiang Ruoyu. The exhibition will be on view from October 27, 2024 through March 2, 2025.

Co-Commissioned in partnership with Gasworks (London) and Para Site (Hong Kong).










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