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.“红色即记忆”是李道成在上海艺术加画廊举办的全新绘画个展，作品围绕记忆、身体性与感知展开创作，将画布转化为心理景观，让生活体验在此碎片化并重塑画面。

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、建筑残片、植物形态与动物躯体从浓烈的土红、焦棕、酸绿以及明黄色块中浮现而出。红色占据核心地位，既唤起血肉、土地、炽热与仪式的意象，又隐喻着层层积淀的记忆。

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与物象、室内与风景、在场与回忆的界限。画面形象通过层层叠叠的颜料、刮擦的肌理以及质朴的线性笔触的挖掘与反复修改而逐渐呈现。人体与物象消融在深红与黑色的色块之中，而其他人物则时隐时现。

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.尽管这些画作浓烈的色彩与富有张力的画面质感让人联想到新表现主义，但画家将这一视觉语言用于当代探索碎片化的感知以及身份认同的不稳定性。最终，《红色作为记忆》将绘画呈现为一种感知的考古学，在其中，图像并非作为固定的记录留存，而是作为被情感、时间与经验不断重塑的痕迹存在。

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.来自云南丽江的李道成是一位中国当代艺术家，其作品围绕文化记忆、心理碎片化与沉默展开。他毕业于纽约帕森斯设计学院，将中国古典美学与西方后现代思想及富有表现力的笔触相融合。

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年回国后，他先后在上海艺术加画廊和Objective画廊举办展览，并为北京和成都的路易威登旗舰店完成了特定场地委托创作。

If you go 参观信息

Date: Through November 6; 10am-6pm, Tuesday to Saturday; Sundays & Mondays by appointment only日期：展至11月6日；周二至周六 上午10点至下午6点；周日及周一仅接受预约

Venue: Art+ Shanghai Gallery 展馆：上海艺术加画廊

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

Admission: Free 免费入场