'Pan Jian’s night-time landscapes show a new generation of Chinese contemporary artists. Born in the 70s, his individualized style and concept derives from his personal emotion rather than collective thinking driven by socio-political themes. He explores the forefront of the unknown. His calm and intricate brushstrokes convey abstraction at first glance in a dark blue, almost black, duo-chrome, however when your eyes adjust, the night landscape slowly emerges.
The forest scenes and minimal landscapes are captured as if from an instant in a film. He is inspired by the words, “the beauty of a scene originates from its sadness.”  There is a deep melancholy or nostalgia that lingers within in his works and it is precisely his intent, which is to capture a mood, state of mind or emotion within the silence and stillness of the night. His works are almost alive yet create a feeling of psychological dislocation. There is no beginning and no end to a narrative however, each work, says Pan Jian, has a story behind it that he doesn’t speak about wishing to keep a somnolent obscurity to his work.  His flashes in time portray neglected corners, he says, “in the uninhibited corners, silence can be broken at any moment.”' — from gallery's press release.

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Onsite

Location code
MON.PAJ5
Language

Chinese - Simplified, 

English

Publication/Creation date

2014

No of pages

38

ISBN / ISSN

9789881689252

No of copies

1

Content type

artist monograph, 

catalogue

Pan Jian: The Realm of Shadows
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Pan Jian: The Realm of Shadows, 潘劍:陰影的邊緣