黄宇兴：时间沉淀后的“永恒” / 四六文摘

Huang Yuxing was born in 1975 in Beijing, he graduated from the Department of Mural Painting at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2000, currently lives and works in Beijing. He uses an extinguish system of fluorescent colors to reflect his different states in life, he once said that fluorescent colors have a powerful vitality that seemed to have been condensed or highly evoked.

黄宇兴

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时间沉淀后的“永恒”

Huang Yuxing: "Eternity" after Time Settles

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Ebb and Flow Details·Huang Yuxing 2015-2016

(lower middle) acrylic on canvas

208 x 258 cm. (81 7/8 x 101 5/8 in.)

Huang approaches fear by evading stereotypical subjects of horror, such as public speaking or clowns, and dissects the concept through an examination of how this particular emotion has evolved over time, both on an individual and societal level. In New Order Hurtling Down the Proletariat (2015–16), Huang creates a visual depiction of the fear and confusion that accompany globalization, particularly pertaining to when a “proletariat” country is being forced to adopt and conform to the modern “New Order.”

The colossal acrylic painting, measuring an impressive 215-by-518 centimeters, appears joyful and almost celebratory upon first impression, with intensely psychedelic colors and abstract organic shapes.

However, on closer inspection, one sees that the circles form skulls—inspired by the Day of the Dead festival of Latin America—and the elongated ovals and rectangles become bones, all of which seem to float down a multicolor river. Crashing into the river are large geometric forms, symbolizing the advanced, technological world forcing its way into the proletariat societies, and evoking the fear of change that accompanies the imposition of globalization.