LIU Cong: Double

The works in this exhibition neither emphasize an “intuition” that eliminates literary imaginations, nor are grounded on personalized and rhetorical “feelings”, but are more akin to an intentional experiment of instinctive senses. The artist thus abandons the symbolic meaning of the objects and adopts his gesture as means of conveying the image, while attempting to conclude the “senses” before the works on canvas. As a result, by abstracting one’s subjective feelings and emotions, the gestures of painting encapsulate the “texture” of the painted works.

With this notion, this exhibition revolves around the subject of “Double,” which embodies both form and content, at times integrated into one, in other cases, in disparate ends. Departing from the logical point of origin, Liu Cong anticipates the arrival of meaning in a process of self-discovery, selection, or even confrontation.