News Releases -- Sentimentally Yours

Opening Ceremony - June 6, 2005, 6pm - 8pm:
Artist will attend the opening ceremony

Yang Yi names the series of her latest paintings in this exhibition at Art Beatus Gallery "Dantian", one of the primal health and nerve hubs in the human body.

A Taoist medical essay says there are three such "crimson fields (Dantian)" in our body. They are located three inches under the belly button (Lower Dantian), just underneath the heart (Middle Dantian) and in the space between the eyes (Upper Dantian). The Lower Dantian is the location of the source of life (for men, it is the sperm centre and for women, the womb). The Middle Dantian supplies the heart and the Upper Dantian stores our spirit of life.

In Yang Yi's delicate works on silk, she covers the Lower Dantian and the Middle Dantian of a nude female body with some meticulously depictions of Tibetan religious icons, thus forcing viewers to search into their souls for sentiments that are either innate, inert or confined. She leaves the Upper Dantian for the viewers' imagination. She states her points and leaves without passing judgements.

Art Beatus Gallery is located at Shop 301-302 Exchange Square Podium level. For further information about this exhibition, you can e-mail us at dyiu@artbeatus.com.hk or call either Dominic Chan at 852-2522-1138 or Josephine Hau at 852-2526-0818.
Yang Yi, born in 1964, was a graduate of the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts. She majored in Chinese Painting in school but soon departed from creating along the traditional themes. She now works in Beijing and also holds a teaching post at the Guiyang Normal University of her native province.