EXHIBITIONSGenealogy Study of Artists No. 18 Huang Bingjie : Diary

START Star Art Museum will launch artist Huang Bingjie’s first solo exhibition “Diary” on November 5, 2024. This exhibition is the 18th case study of “Artist Genealogy Research” at START Star Art Museum. The Artist Genealogy Study is an ongoing research project carried out by START Star Art Museum since 2018. The project pioneers the establishment of a continuous academic research platform focusing on the interrelationship between artists’ personal genealogy and artistic creation, and uses exhibition works, publications, sound documents, image documents, and past documents to sort out the artist’s artistic generation through multiple clues.

When discussing Huang Bingjie’s paintings, one of the most commonly mentioned words is “dream”. Her creative inspiration often comes from the artist’s own various complex and romantic dreams. But through the icy picture, it is not difficult to find that her dream is not a Freudian projective interpretation: she gives flowers eyes, not to reveal the fear of being stared at, but to secretly joy at the animism; She paints the feet of the waves on the beach, not to express the suppressed anxiety, but to the carnival of the prelude to dawn; She introduced Medusa into painting, not because of the desire for charm, but because of the yearning for physical freedom…… The artist bypasses Dali, Chagall, and Rousseau, with extreme dexterity, and points to a more classical aesthetic – imagination. This is a pure and powerful gift, imaged by imagination, endowed with sensuality to the intellect. It can be said that the reading of Bingjie’s paintings is against the current viewing experience: we cannot use the picture as a riddle to interpret her expression, but use the picture as the final imaginary result to feel her emotions. This is a rather feminine reading, non-ironic and non-metaphorical meaning, which connects the artist’s private personal experience at one end and freedom and presumptuousness at the other.

This exhibition, titled “Diary”, presents the rich emotional experience and imaginative slices of Huang Bingjie’s daily life, and will exhibit 27 new creations by the artist in the past two years.