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Su Xiangpan’s individual exhibition “Walking in the Spring Rain" opened on July the 15th, 2023. This exhibition exhibits the artist’s oil painting on canvas and installation works, and the exhibition is expected to end on August the 27th. This is Su Xiangpan’s fourth solo exhibition presented at the gallery after "Slow Impulse" in 2014; “A Vague Decision in 2015; "Pickling in the Air" in 2018.

The artist’s self-written poem “Walking in the Spring Rain" was describing what he saw and thought during the walk. Most of the contents of the poem were collision of two opposite things, hoping to highlight the fateful tension of rationality and sensibility in painting and installation, as well as the artistic state of the artist in the past five years. Su Xiangpan creates in the morning and dusk of the four seasons, and walks at the end of the street outside the house. It seems that there are only these two things, which are reluctantly surrounding his world.

The process of Su Xiangpan’s work is difficult and long, from the number of times of creative traces, the stacking of pigments, the creation time, and the different years of the work. Su Xiangpan wants to divide many facts, such as completion and incompleteness, calmness and unrestrainedness, effort and relaxation, clumsiness and cleverness, etc. He regards art as his brother, sometimes familiar and sometimes strange. Fortunately, he knows that the concept of art would not occupy him. Sober and romance of walking are his fate.

Artist Su Xiangpan was born in Guigang, Guangxi province in 1984. In 2010, he graduated from the Mural Department of the China Academy of Fine Arts with a Bachelor’s Degree; and in 2014, he graduated from the Department of Mural Painting of the China Academy of Fine Arts with a Master’s Degree. He now lives and works in Wuhan, Hubei Province.

Curator Li Boyan was born in Tianjin in 1984. He graduated from Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in 2006. He served as the curator of the public unit of the 2017 "Sanxingdui Theatre Festival”. He is also the curator of the public space performance unit of the "Second Shenzhen Contemporary Drama Biennale" in 2018; curator of the experimental exhibition unit of "Jinan Photography Biennial Exhibition” in 2018; curator of the theme exhibition of "The Second Wuhan Image Art Expo" in 2020. He was selected as the curator of the Guandu Art Museum in Taipei in 2019. He also entered the 2015 PSA Youth Curator Program and the 2019 Hyundai Blue Prize.