EXHIBITION SYNOPSIS

About Dong Shi Solo Exhibition - Chick Pecking Rice & Others
by Li Boyan

Koala Space are glad to provide you with the first solo exhibition of Dong Shi, the “Chick Pecking Rice and Others”. Dong Shi adopts his self-assumed “Circle Line” technique, which creates animals images by adding elements and colors to the spring-like line drawn in one time. He discovered this game in surprise in school days after drawing the picture of “Chick Pecking Rice” on textbook. He then patiently repeated the “circles” one after another, fabricating out different postures of animals. It seemed like that he wanted to keep in mind of, be proficient in and carry forward this suddenly discovery. With optimist attitude, Dong Shi offers these paintings with both conscious irony and childlike innocence. These paintings, bearing successive features of the Republic of China cartoon and based on simple lines, imply the disordered and confusing, helpless and fugacious current life. Of course, we also could not easily label these works as “bad painting”. Although he painted with traditional brush and ink, and intended to bring an unrestrained sense to the picture, Dong Shi gave more emphasis to the “meaningful forms” rather than the connotation of the ink painting itself. He will start from the formal beauty of modern painting, and put it into his natural perception of individual’s life. The Exhibition will exhibits 20 pieces of the new works of Dong Shi, fully displaying his artistic exploration beginning from the “Chick pecking Rice”.

May, 2016