ART THEMA GALLERY

CHINA, ° 1968

WORKS

Meng Qingnan was born in 1968 in Diaobingshan ,Liaoning Province, now lives and works in Shanghai. He’s currently a teacher and collaborator of several galleries and institutions such as Taiwan Mingdian Gallery, the Academy of Henan Han Mo, and Beijing Academy East Divine Land.
He graduated in Lu Xun Fine Arts Academy and he is now an advanced student at Shanghai Normal University.

Shapes and patterns
Cartomancy occupies a very peculiar place in the Chinese culture, defining a non-linear time structure and identifying signs, symbols and occasional events with short circuits of magnetic forces, capable to predict the future and investigate the present.
Basic geometric shapes, on their own or composed, construct a thick web of signals, with stratified and complex symbolic meanings.
Meng Qingnan practice is based onto an empiric model of abstraction, on the edge between study of archaic meanings of geometric shapes, and the mathematical representation systems typical of Optical Art.
After analysing attentively their superficial features, the artist submits his subjects to a test, from which he extracts a personal profile. He meets his interlocutors through a functional code to frame passions and weaknesses, the hidden characters of their personas.
On the route back to the painted canvas, the artist follows the crucial tension between surface and depth, merging it with a mathematical grid of colours.

Preview a selection of Meng Qingnan’s works hereunder.