Youbo Chiang: Poetic Dwelling

Youbo Chiang: Poetic Dwelling 🌿 Artist Youbo Chiang presents his first solo museum exhibition *Poetic Dwelling* at Parkview Green Contemporary Art Museum · Beijing, curated by renowned curator Yi Yang Shao, featuring over 90 works including paintings, sculptures, and digital art. 🍃 **Dwelling in the Interstice** The concept of "poetic dwelling" originates from German philosopher Martin Heidegger's philosophical interpretation of poet Friedrich Hölderlin's verses. The exhibition focuses on the artist's exploration of balance between nature and mythology, individuality and collectivity, primal energy and contemporary technology. 🤍 Chiang revives millennia-old lacquer art through 3D printing, annotates ink-wash aesthetics with English poetry, and reimagines divine dragons with anime-inspired forms. His creations consistently embody cross-cultural, cross-media, and boundary-defying characteristics. 🦁️ **Animal Fables: Mirrors of Humanity** Chiang's animal subjects possess human emotions and spirituality, serving as mirrors to our own existence. These creatures are endowed with eyes that perceive worldly truths, reflecting shared human melancholy, longing, and perseverance as they navigate cosmic labyrinths of fate. 🤍 His artistic language merges the poetic philosophy of Eastern ink-wash traditions with the individualistic creativity of Western abstract expressionism. Drawing structural and spiritual inspiration from ink painting and calligraphy systems, he constructs mental imagery reflective of our globalized era. 🔥 **Alchemy of Materials** Rejecting conventional tools, Chiang explores the beauty of controlled chaos through collisions of industrial lacquer, temple gold, and earthen pigments. His diverse techniques—dripping glazes, scraping, spraying, and bare-handed application—create richly textured surfaces with rhythmic vitality. Oil flows freely across canvases, freezing into crackled patterns that echo ink-wash techniques while concealing nature's mysteries, forming a surreal symbiosis of abstract expressionism and literati ink art. 🤍 Chiang's studio functions like an alchemist's crucible, fusing aesthetic experiments across temporal and spatial dimensions. This transcendent narrative and symbolic reconstruction places art within broader historical contexts, using aesthetic experimentation to dissolve political oppositions, mend cultural rifts with artistry, and counter technological alienation with philosophical contemplation. ❤️‍ **Cross-Cultural Text Experiments** English verses replace traditional inscriptions in Chiang's paintings, becoming cross-cultural textual experiments. Traversing between Wang Wei's Zen-like "journey to the water's end" and Jackson Pollock's unrestrained gestures, his work fuses Eastern ceremonial sensibilities with modern industrial aesthetics. 🤍 Each painting is accompanied by the artist's original English poems—concise yet philosophical texts that complement the visual works. This approach both continues the cultural lineage of inscribed paintings and manifests his cross-cultural reflections in contemporary art contexts. 🗽 **Symbiosis of Technology and Poetry** While embracing technological tools, Chiang insists on preserving "the warmth of handcraft." His sculptures begin with AI compositions, undergo 3D-printed translation, and ultimately return to the artist's manual shaping. Between nature and mythology, individuality and community, primal energy and modern technology, Chiang discovers connections. 🤍 He investigates collaborative mechanisms between technology and art, rationality and sensibility, where cold algorithms meet warm craftsmanship. The literati landscape's "recluse journey" concept resonates with existentialist "Dasein" theory. His sculptural practice demonstrates transmedia qualities, embodying ongoing exploration of future visual languages. 🗿 The exhibition occupies Parkview Green Contemporary Art Museum · Beijing as its main venue, extending into Parkview Green's public spaces. The museum has specially invited Chiang for a residency at The Opposite House Beijing, marking the inaugural project of the hotel's "Artist-in-Residence Program." ⏱Now–2025.11.17 🏛Parkview Green Contemporary Art Museum · Beijing 📍10F, Parkview Green, Beijing