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YYehan's Statement |
What I loved about paintings for were their
lines, the brightness and shades, the structures and the colors within them,
which were basically all the elements that contributed to the tableau.
Driven by intuition and stubbornness, I have now become a bona fide
formalist and I am convinced that it is the DNA inside of me which has made me
grown fond of forms?-it seems I have set up a unique system for handling of
painting materials and painstakingly searched and successfully invented the
ways to ensure smooth operation within this system.. I have transformed the
creation of artworks into the kind of repetitive task that Sisyphus is bound to
complete, or into a meaningless self-growing process. The process starts with
emptiness, followed by the blossoming of elements, dots, embryos, patches and
structures as its turn comes, until these elements fill the space, cause the
inner explosion and, eventually, overflow?-at such a destination, the world
displayed before me is no more than a stippled painting. The painting
materials, which are of the thing-in-itself nature, do not appear in paintings
in form of metaphor, but in form of dense arrays, and only at such a
destination, I am surprised to find myself having been free to explore the
boundless sky.
My works are my forms, and I never really care about the
connotations, meanings and any other qualities which are said to be able to
enhanced artworks. There are no intrinsic characteristics hidden in my works,
what you see on the surface are intrinsic in itself. Form, for me, is the
content. And form in itself is the meaning. Without form, content cannot exist;
by the same token, without content, form will only seem meaningless. I believe
when someone is creating a form, he is also presenting the content, and the
content is that someone himself.
Each object is an emblem in itself and
can neither be experienced nor interpreted. Each object is like a mystery. It
reveals the basics of its own presence and nature. The relationship of the
canvas and the pigments is the only real facts of my paintings. The process of
making an abstract painting may continue even though it is physically
completed, it will not stop as long as it is capable of causing the viewers to
feel new feelings?- Artworks, just like clouds, are capable of extending their
mysteries by the nourishing of the new feelings they bring to the viewers.
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