Huang Young Ping New Works Solo Exhibition
"Five Snakes" detail. Several Chinese sentences caught my attention.
Text/Photos by Chen Chi-Hsiang. Venue: Kamel Mennour Gallery. Dates: April 22–May 26. Huang Young Ping uses the sea snake as a metaphor. In his solo exhibition at the Kamel Mennour Gallery in Paris, he exhibited models of the "Empire" monument from the Grand Palais 2016. Among them was a paper work titled "Five Snakes," where several Chinese sentences caught my attention, perhaps revealing his incisive views on art.
Indeed, contemporary art expresses the current human condition, exploring the unknown, whether forward-looking or avant-garde. The audience cannot remain numb or blindly accept and worship everything; worship blinds the eyes. To me, "seeing" witnesses what is before us and grasps present consciousness. Of course, both sides can provoke deep thought. It depends on how the "viewer" chooses to face it. Seeing is a subjective reflection of the individual; for me, seeing is enough.
The artist wrote on the work "Five Snakes": "From the worship of snakes to the worship of art, from the poisoning of snakes to the poisoning of power, to the poisoning of art."