Art+ Shanghai Gallery Presents Solo Exhibition by Li Daocheng

“Red as Memory,” Li Daocheng’s new body of paintings at Art+ Shanghai Gallery, examines memory, corporeality, and perception, turning the canvas into a psychological landscape where lived experience fragments and reshapes pictures.“紅色即記憶”是李道成在上海藝術加畫廊舉辦的全新繪畫個展，作品圍繞記憶、身體性與感知展開創作，將畫布轉化爲心理景觀，讓生活體驗在此碎片化並重塑畫面。

Human figures, vessels, architectural fragments, botanical forms and animal bodies emerge from vivid fields of earthen reds, burnt umbers, acidic greens and flashes of yellow. Red takes on a central role, evoking flesh, soil, heat and ritual while serving as a metaphor for the accumulated layers of memory.人形、器物、建築殘片、植物形態與動物軀體從濃烈的土紅、焦棕、酸綠以及明黃色塊中浮現而出。紅色佔據核心地位，既喚起血肉、土地、熾熱與儀式的意象，又隱喻着層層積澱的記憶。

Li’s works blur figure and object, interior and landscape, and presence and recollection. Images emerge through excavation and revision through layered pigments, scratched surfaces, and raw linear marks. Bodies and objects dissolve into crimson and black fields, while other figures appear and disappear.李的作品模糊了人物與物象、室內與風景、在場與回憶的界限。畫面形象通過層層疊疊的顏料、刮擦的肌理以及質樸的線性筆觸的挖掘與反覆修改而逐漸呈現。人體與物象消融在深紅與黑色的色塊之中，而其他人物則時隱時現。

Although the paintings’ intense colors and agitated surfaces recall Neo-Expressionism, the painter directs this visual language toward a contemporary exploration of fragmented perception and the instability of identity. Ultimately, “Red as Memory” presents painting as an archaeology of perception, where images survive not as fixed records but as traces continually transformed by emotion, time and experience.儘管這些畫作濃烈的色彩與富有張力的畫面質感讓人聯想到新表現主義，但畫家將這一視覺語言用於當代探索碎片化的感知以及身份認同的不穩定性。最終，《紅色作爲記憶》將繪畫呈現爲一種感知的考古學，在其中，圖像並非作爲固定的記錄留存，而是作爲被情感、時間與經驗不斷重塑的痕跡存在。

Li Daocheng from Lijiang, Yunnan Province, is a contemporary Chinese artist whose work explores cultural memory, psychological fragmentation and silence. A graduate of Parsons School of Design in New York, he combines classical Chinese aesthetics with Western postmodern thought and expressive mark-making.來自雲南麗江的李道成是一位中國當代藝術家，其作品圍繞文化記憶、心理碎片化與沉默展開。他畢業於紐約帕森斯設計學院，將中國古典美學與西方後現代思想及富有表現力的筆觸相融合。

Since returning to China in 2020, he has exhibited at Art+ Shanghai Gallery and Objective Gallery and completed site-specific commissions for Louis Vuitton flagship stores in Beijing and Chengdu.2020年回國後，他先後在上海藝術加畫廊和Objective畫廊舉辦展覽，併爲北京和成都的路易威登旗艦店完成了特定場地委託創作。

If you go 參觀信息

Date: Through November 6; 10am-6pm, Tuesday to Saturday; Sundays & Mondays by appointment only日期：展至11月6日；週二至週六 上午10點至下午6點；週日及週一僅接受預約

Venue: Art+ Shanghai Gallery 展館：上海藝術加畫廊

Address: B1-6, Sunken Garden, Lane No.9, Qufu Rd 曲阜路9弄下沉廣場B1-6

Admission: Free 免費入場