Portrait of Trees No.23 树的肖像23 (detail 局部) Oil on canvas 布面油画120 x 150 cm2016

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Pang Yun

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Pang Yun (庞云) is a Chongqing-based artist born 1975 in Chongqing. Her works of oil on canvas inspire quiet reflection and a sense of resolute control with detailed and technically precise brushstrokes. Her latest series Portrait of Trees is inspired by the natural order and structure of trees with their upward-reaching illimitable branches that stand still and tranquil against surrounding storms. At once earthly, grounded, and spiritually transcendent, her style of painting offers a freedom from tension based on the power and serenity of the natural world. With an atmosphere akin to meditation, Pang Yun layers canvases with an abundance of repetitive yet expressive strokes.

In 2016, her works have been selected for John Moore Art Exhibition at Shanghai Mingsheng Art Museum. In 2015, Pan Yun’s works were featured in a dual exhibition at Art+ Shanghai Gallery with fellow Chongqing-based artist Li Yuming: Of Woods and Wonderlands: Dual Exhibition by Pang Yun and Li Yuming. The artist has been widely exhibited in the national art exhibitions in China.

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Posture of the Tree 淞Oil on canvas 布面油画120 x 120 cm2018

Pang Yun’s work is not of the wild debris of fallen, tangled, or knotted trees, but optimistic, ambitious,

and stable forms that are symbolic of human will and human potential.

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Trees Have Secret 树之密 Oil on canvas 布面油画120 x 120 cm2018

The darkness, layering, and endlessness of natural woods, with twisted branches and a quiet air, fueled the imaginations of the Romantics. Pang Yun’s fascination with trees is based on her appreciation for this complexity as well as the natural order and presence of trees, which she finds mankind’s nature reflected in. In Pang’s works of oil on canvas, softly curving branches emerge from tall trunks to branch, overlap, and explore the space of the canvas.

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Portrait of Trees No.7树的肖像 7Oil on canvas 布面油画80 x 100 cm2014

Pang Yun’s upward-reaching branches stand still and transcendent against the surrounding elements. With deep roots grounding them in the earth, trunks that connect to the sky, and branches that create a dense, layered pattern like a maze of potential pathways, Pang’s woods are unrelenting in the face of gravity and entropic disorder. Though nature and landscape often gives the impression of the wild untamable, Pang Yun’s paintings explore the order and structure extant at the basis of nature’s forms. To hear her tell it, her depiction of woods is not honesty of view, but honesty of Chinese philosophical idea, expressing man’s complex yet rationally defiant nature.

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Portrait of Trees No. 11树的肖像11Oil on canvas 布面油画100 x 80 cm2015

In the visual arts, many artists have their own unique way of referring to time. Her creative process is akin to Taoist meditation, with an abundance of repetitive yet expressive strokes in detailed brushwork that lends itself to an atmosphere of tranquility and contemplation. Over the period of one year, she painted tree branches throughout twelve months, considering this exercise as a way to show the figure of time. Those detailed branches, layer upon layer, are structured in a planar woven visual network, the diachronic strokes similar to the beads of a rosary, which measure time, going around and around and beginning again, with neither a start nor an end. Meanwhile, the canvas has layers: at one moment it is an entire form, at the next everything is cracked and overlapped.

在视觉艺术领域，很多艺术家都有自己独特的方式与时间建立关系。庞云近期的作品以近乎北禅修持的方式完成。在过去的一年中，她画了整整十二个月的树枝，以此作为时间的显形。那些细密的，层层覆盖的蔓枝构织成一张张平面的视觉樊网。历时的笔触与念珠类似，它量度时间，周而复始，却也无始无终。其间，布留以层层机变：此刻看似的完形，下刻可能即被破解、叠覆与消隐。

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Portrait of Trees No. 2 树的肖像 2 Oil on canvas 布面油画100 cm (diameter 直径)2014

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Portrait of Trees No. 26 树的肖像26Oil on canvas 布面油画120 x 150 cm2016

作为树枝的符号,其实是一个指涉“墟”的对应物，但庞云并没有凝滞于对逝去的感怀之中，她通过笔触在“墟”的场域中营造新的景观，以此对抗虚无。由此，整个过程中绘画形态的重要性在渐渐退却，作为主体体验时间的方式则完成了对艺术本身的超越。

Branches may seem as symbols of “ruin” and “decay,” like a heap of fallen debris, but Pang Yun does not follow this idea of things fading away and instead creates new landscapes and expresses new life in brushstrokes of these tangled branches in order to fight against the perception of nothingness. Therefore, the conceptual depths of her work lie in her attention to detail and her unique creative process, the reinvention of painted branches into something new and never-ending, allowing for a transcendent experience of art and time.

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Pang Yun1975 Born in Chongqing, China2005 Bachelor’s Degree, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing

Currently a professional artist based in Chongqing, Member of Chongqing Artists Association

EXHIBITIONS AND AWARDS

2019 7th Chongqing Art Exhibition Chongqing Young Artists Oil Painting Exhibition, Parallel Intersection, 108 Art Museum, Chongqing 11th New Year Art Festival, Huangjueping Resident Artists Group Exhibition

2018 Shenzhen Wang + Art Gallery Oil Painting Exhibition, Shenzhen 2017 6th Chongqing Art Works Exhibition, Chongqing Art Museum, Chongqing

2016 John Moore Art Exhibition, Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai

2015 Of Woods and Wonderlands: Dual Exhibition by Pang Yun and Li Yuming, Art+ Shanghai Gallery, Shanghai New Year’s Huangjueping Young Painters Invitation Exhibition, 102 Ding Space, Chongqing

2014 The 12th National Art Exhibition in Chongqing “The 5th Chongqing Art Works Exhibition”

2013 First Prize in Chongqing TV Cup Art Competition

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Pang YunEXHIBITIONS AND AWARDS (CONT.)

2012 “Comrade Mao Zedong in Yan’an Forum on Literature Speech” 70th Anniversary Art Exhibition, Chongqing

2010 Mirror, Female Artists Exhibition, 108 Art Gallery, Chongqing Chongqing Female Artisits Exhibition, Chongqing Art Museum, Chongqing

2009 “IPO” ICBC 2009 Huangjueping Cutting-Edge Contemporary Art Exhibition, First WinterAuction of Contemporary Art, Chongqing “Dialogue Chongqing” Chongqing Morning News, First Contemporary Art Exhibition, Chongqing Grand Theatre, Chongqing 60th Anniversary of the Foundation of China of the Fourth Chongqing Municipal Art Exhibition and Eleventh National Art Exhibition, Chongqing Their Words, Western Contemporary Art Exhibition, Huangjueping Art Museum, Chongqing, and Chang’an Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing

2008 Bustle? Silence?, Exhibition of 9 Artists, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, 108 Art Space, Chongqing

2006 Exhibition of Outstanding Works, Chongqing Art Museum, Chongqing

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1975 出生于重庆 2005 毕业于四川美术学院油画专业本科

现为职业艺术家重庆美术家协会会员

展览

2019 重庆第七届美展 重庆青年艺术家油画展《平行交集》108美术馆 11届新年艺术节，黄桷坪常驻艺术家群展

2018 深圳王＋Art Gallery 油画展, 深圳

2017 第六届重庆市美术作品展览，重庆美术馆，重庆

2016 约翰莫尔展，上海民生美术馆，上海

2015 树林与仙境：庞云、李毓明双个展, 艺术+ 上海画廊， 上海 巴塞尔艺术展 元月参加黄桷坪新年艺术节青年油画家邀请展（102鼎空间）

2014 “第十二届全国美展重庆市选送作品展” “第五届重庆市美术作品展”

2013 “重庆市两江新区美术大赛”荣获一等奖 “重庆市电大杯美术比赛”荣获一等奖

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2012 “毛泽东同志在延安文艺座谈会上的讲话”发表70周年重庆市美术作品展览

2010 108艺术馆“镜像”女性艺术家作品展 “重庆市女性画家书画大展”（重庆美术馆）

2009 “原始股”工商银行09黄桷坪新锐当代艺术展暨首届重庆当代艺术品冬季拍卖会 “对话.重庆”重庆晨报，第一届当代艺术大展（重庆大剧院） “庆祝建国60周年第四届重庆市美术作品展暨第十一届全国美展重庆市选送作品展” “各自话语”西部当代艺术交流大展（重庆黄桷坪美术馆--重庆长安当代美术馆） 2008 《喧嚣？沉寂？》九人作品展（四川美术学院108艺术空间） 2006 重庆美术馆优秀作品展

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