KeYi Gallery is pleased to announce the first exhibition "The World as Will and Representation" at New Space Beijing, featuring more than ten new works by Sun Yifei, Xing Wanli, Li Penquan and Chen Yingzhou, as a new sample of the "90 Generation".The exhibition theme is based on the title of German philosopher Schopenhauer's famous works, and Schopenhauer’s book is divided into four parts, whicht explains the decisive role of will.
In his book "The World as Will and Representation", Schopenhauer reveals the pain in the world and shows it in front of us in a bloody way, ruthlessly disclosing that the essence of our seeming happiness is ultimately pain. Schopenhauer is concerned with life and living by subverting the basic rational principles of the enlightenment with the absurdity, illusion, chaos and instability of the living reality, and this is precisely the concern of the artists in this exhibition, as new cases of the "90 Generation", namely: how to be happy with pain?
The artists represented in this exhibition have their own breakthroughs in various fields.Xing Wanli specializes in creating fantasy worlds and figurations of consciousness based on text-generated work, making slices in stories. Sun Yifei, on the other hand, takes stories as the cornerstone of his works, allowing obscure, abstract, absurd and allegorical stories to point intact in the images, forming an unique language and giving each work an independent will. Li Penquan is good at capturing the sense of roughness and atmosphere in his work in the city and field work, hiding delicate emotions in an independent picture, and emphasizing the output of emotions. Chen Yingzhou, on the other hand, emphasizes the subordination of storytelling in the picture, mingling more early Internet content to dissolve grand narratives such as ideology, hot current events, and religious philosophy.
