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Huang Liaoyuan 2005
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Deng Jianjin’s works are always filled with nervous and uneasy emotions. Deng Jianjin’s works look like positive but actually, they are negative. Deng Jianjin more concerns some metaphysical things on academics. Deng Jianjin’s works are “explicit”. His pursue of the aesthetics of violence has been consistent. In my opinion, his concerns on painting are far more than the concerns on reality. In other words, he is looking for a practical way for a kind of ideal of painting. Deng Jianjin is coherent to expressionism, because it is more conducive to his inner monologue and psychological talk. In Deng Jianjin’s recent work Why Does The Sunset Make Us So Beautiful, we still can see the violence and the hidden bloodiness, but the romance firstly came out in his screen. This brutal and erotic romance different from Adolescent made Deng Jianjin accomplish his break. This series is filled with lazy, depressed, agitated and uneasy emotions of the end of the world, reminiscent of Musset’s The Confession of a Child of the Age. Deng Jianjin still insists on dealing his figures and time-space in the philosophical way of abstract concepts. None of the postures of the figures in the screen is “reasonable”. However, just because of this kind of “fabrication”, the whole screen has the tension pulling out. The very watchful and controlled use of eroticism, the shadows of the shackles of selfness, and the meteor-like seemingly accidental symbols breaking the balance of the picture, along with the even dealing with the half color, mixed color and even the lowest color, give the series strong vitality and social effect of alienation.
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