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Devra Fox

Hannah Wilson

Janes Haid-Schmallenberg

Jochen Mühlenbrink

Leo Park

TANG Shuo

Null Protocol

Oct 7 - Nov 4 2022

A collaboration with Gallery Kiche

INSTALLATION VIEWS

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WORKS

ARTISTS

Hannah Wilson

Jochen Mühlenbrin

Janes Haid-Schmallenberg

Devra Fox

​Leo Park

TANG Shuo

Null Protocol features a selection of paintings by artists from different countries and regions. Though the subjects of the works vary, they are all teeming with a strong sense of spiritual introspection, which is rooted in the subtle equilibrium and interplay between their visual forms and the subjects. Through the artists’ respective signature ways of expression, they offer their vision and response to the conventional aesthetic rules and spiritual protocols inherent to modernist painting traditions.

Looking back upon the history of painting, a new period will always make the conventional rules from the past null protocol as they are no longer valid on artists with pioneering spirit. The artists featured in this exhibition, following the tradition of modernist painting on the one hand, attempt to revisit the aesthetic protocol of modernism in a different spiritual time and space. While unfolding endless imagination and their respective visual decisions, they also reiterate the profundities and possibilities of painting, a most ancient and traditional medium, and show people the exuberant vitality of painting as a tool to combat the alienation of thinking and rigidity.

 

Text. Yihong LIU

 

Devra Fox

The visceral and organic figures in American artist Devra Fox’s works are reminiscent of the notion of “betrayal of flesh”. If we associate her works with the “back views” or “mirror images” in classic paintings by masters like Rubens or Velazquez, we’d see the implications behind the bilaterally symmetric images, which could be seen as a metaphor of the multiple states of being, the split self and unity of humanity.

 

 

Hannah Wilson

Hannah Wilson, also an artist from U.S, imbues her paintings with a pressing sense of anxiety through the use of subtle colors and restrained brushstrokes. The somewhat spiritual texture of the work reminds people of shots of Hitchcock’s movies; and the restrained processing of shapes and tones sheds light on traces of the artist’s subconsciousness as she has made a placid and intriguing reassessment of the authenticity of concepts and forms of expression.

 

 

Janes Haid-Schmallenberg

German artist Janes Haid-Schmallenberg incorporates forces of creation, destruction and transformation into the intricately interconnected imagery through drastically distorted shapes, stretching, splitting and reassembling elements evocative of dueling to form a complex spatial context that highlights the emotional power dissolved in the space.

 

 

Jochen Mühlenbrin

Artist Jochen Mühlenbrink, also from Germany, resorts to haziness to create a sense of infinity within the painting frame. The rich and profound landscape growing out of two-dimensional space is disrupted by the traces of fortuity covering it, making the implicit images a symbol of concept. In this context, painting becomes an approach to explore and reflect on the trendy concept of “field”.

 

 

Leo Park

Swedish artist Leo Park’s small-sized pencil on paper works seem to be the reproduction of memories transcending time and space. In the meantime, the humorous and light-hearted composition reveals an extraordinary sense of imagination and vision reminding people of Dali. The unique and powerful forms open up a brand new aesthetic experience for the viewers.

TANG Shuo

Chinese artist TANG Shuo presents an exploration into the secrets of the nature, which could also be reckoned as an attempt to make peace with oneself. Beneath the somewhat strange landscape there lies a spiritual space of uncertainties. The way he deals with spatial composition and light and shadow shows profound understanding and great mastery of classical techniques.

Devra Fox
Hannah Wilson
Janes Haid-Schmallenberg
Jochen Mühlenbrin
Leo Park
TANG Shuo

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