SUN Hongbin
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Curriculum Vitae
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Mirage
Moon Night
Night Lake - Beihai
Oil on Canvas
Bridge in Beihai
Shangzhuang Lake
Spring Sand Night (grey)
Window
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| SUN Hongbin is an emerging Chinese artist known for his ability to capture the quiet calm of night in his landscape photography and his growing accomplishments as a painter of oil on canvas.
SUN Hongbin’s popular Moon Night series of photographs capture that momentary sense of peace when the sun sets and night begins to dominate. Solitary figures and silhouettes of trees against softly diffused light illustrate the artist’s understanding of the photographic treatment of light to create mood. Most recently Sun has produced a series of colourful oil works on canvas combining his childhood passion for animals and acrobatics with a caricature-like style to depict people and animals in performance settings. In his upcoming exhibition SUN Hongbin: Animal Circus, (Embassy House, January 14-18) the artist uses animals in a humorous circus setting to translate the popular concept of ‘balance in life’. In Circus No.2 Monkey on Goat (2007) he uses a goat walking a tightrope watched intently by the crowd to illustrate the need for balance to cope in life. He suggests if balance is lost, metaphorically speaking, one might ‘fall off’ the tightrope or experience some degree of stress. The artist’s use of colour, painterly style and subject matter capture the energy of the post-impressionists and contribute to the artist’s appeal. The frivolity and heat of Toulouse-Lautrec’s nightlife scenes and the reference to Degas’ ballerinas is noticeable. Like these artists, the use of bright but garish and muddy colour contribute to tension in the paintings – will the expectant crowd see the goat fall, will the ballerina leave the audience spellbound or will she be driven from the stage? | |||
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