WAVE WAVE——He Canbo’s solo exhibition

2010.06.26---

2010.08.12

• Mr. He Canbo’s ink paintings are inhabited by mysterious human shapes which I call “omega” beings.

These creatures multiply without end, but do not frighten us, neither do they repel us, even when a

multitude of them fall from above like a dense, sticky, tropical rain. Their uniform, orderly formations,

above all, a translucent space inside their blob-like heads, make them close to us. Impersonal, featureless,

quasi-identical, as they may appear, these human shapes are full of luminous space. The darker the

background, the more crystal-like transparency can be seen in them. When the atmosphere becomes

lighter, the interior of these beings change into an illusory, mirror-like transparency of quicksilver

(mercury). We are puzzled by this phenomenon of a most opaque of substances, a colour dust, a choke (is

there anything less transparent than the choke?), transforming themselves into a light substance. Even

when most crowded, these shapes do not lose their glass-like transparency.

• As a form, although deprived of facial features and expressiveness, with their gently inclined heads, they

convey a certain thoughtfulness, even sadness. Their natural history, as we see from He Canbo’s most

recent work, is to pass their light substance into their surroundings, thus becoming an abstraction, a sign

strangely reminiscent of the last letter of the Greek alphabet: omega. They have apparently reached the

end of their road but contain in themselves a potential for a new beginning (“I am the Alpha and the

Omega, the beginning and the end…”)

• -- By Roska ( Philosopher and Art Critic )

Resume——He Canbo

Born in 1966, Graduated from Yunnan art institute in 1989. At the invitation of Cultural Ministry of Japan and as a Japanese Visitor in Tokyo.during1999 and 2000, served as researcher of tama Art University.2006 continued study in China Central Academy of Fine Arts and got MFA degree in 2008. Now resident in Beijing and Kunming.Solo Exhibitions2006 Shanghai Art Museum / Ningbo Art Museum, China2000 UNAC TOKYO gallery, Tokyo, JapanExhibition 2009 Lead Up-The Exhibition of the Chinese Fine Arts Critics’ Nominations 2009,Museum of contemporary art Beijing2008 Contemporary Ink and Wash Painting Art Exhibition of China,Japan and Korea, Mulpa Gallery, Seoul Korea.2008 Ink and Wash Painting Exhibition,9 Contemporary gallery of 798 Art Center,Beijing.2008 Ink Painting Today-Shanghai New Ink and Wash painting Art

Resume——He CanboExhibition,Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, shanghai2008 The 23rd Asian International Art Exhibition, The University City Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art2008 21st Century Invitational Exhibition of Brush Drawing, Beijing Art Museum of Institute of Traditional Chinese Painting, China2008 Sunshine International Annual Art Exhibition, Beijing Songzhuang sunshine Art Museum, China2008 Annual Joint-Exhibition of Chinese Brush Drawing,Beijing Huantie Times Art Museum, China.2008 The 3th made of Songzhuang, Wash and ink Feature Exhibition, Beijing Sonzhuang Sunshine Art Museum, China.2007 Document Exhibition of China Contemporary Art, Gehua Art Museum, Wall Art Museum, China2007 Joint-Exhibition of Sino-German Contemporary Artists, Koblenz Art Museum, Germany2005 Amazing Visual Shanghai Youth Art Exhibition, Liuhaisu Art Museum, Shanghai, China2004 The 19th Asian International Art Exhibition, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan2004 Spot, Radiation and Penetration: Visual Transmission from Brash and Ink, National Art Museum. Malaysia2003 Today Chinese Art Exhibition , Beijing World art Museum, China  Publication2006, Ink, Wash, China-Hecanbo, Farewell to Solitude-A collection of Hecanbo’s Brush 

Floating Dream68x68cm

Landcsape97X97cm

Floating Pyramid-3119X123cm

Cube series-6119X123cm

Cube series-10119X123cm

Cube series-4119X123cm

Dragon120X123CM

Pleasure in light119X123CM

Superposed Portrait123X119CM

Conversation E ，119X123CM

Conversation S119X123CM

Flute119X123CM

Sailing M

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Wonderland-02123X119CM

Wonderland-07123X119CM

Melody123X119CM

Wonderland-19246X123CM

Coming from X-planet119X123CM

Song In Wonderland

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Adventures of Solomon

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Letter From Elsewhere

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Wander119X123CM

Fusion

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About us The partners of Being 3 Art Gallery have been deeply studying in art history and art philosophy, caring the

most forwarded creativity of Chinese Character art for more than 20 years. In 2009,we Launched a branch

in Shanghai as well.

Being 3 Art Gallery is initiating the activity of ‘Year of Chinese Character Art’ to announce ‘Awakening Chin

ese Character’ as a statement of this genre.

Encourage and subsidize young artist to create substance for art must to be art. The works must have clea

rly live style and introspect in linguistic level.

We name the movement that caused by Chinese Character and Substance Concern as ‘Future-

Substansm Movement’.