Follow Singapore Investment Immigration and Life in Singapore: The "Exploration of Heaven and Earth" - the world tour of paintings by Singaporean artist Lin Xiangxiong, co-organized by the China Academy of Art, the Chinese Yanhuang Culture Research Association, and the Singapore Yanhuang International Cultural Association, grandly opened on the morning of November 8 at the Henan Provincial Art Museum.
It is understood that after the debut of the world tour of paintings by Singaporean artist Lin Xiangxiong in Beijing, it has been held successively at the Shaanxi Provincial Art Museum, Henan Provincial Art Museum, and Shanghai Chinese Art Palace, completing four exhibition stops in China in the Asia-Pacific region by December 14, 2013, and will move to Europe in 2014. In 2015, it will tour North America in the United States, Africa in South Africa, and Oceania in Melbourne, completing this world tour covering five continents by December 2015. To complement this world tour, Lin Xiangxiong selected 660 paintings from over 800 works created from 1990 to 2013, and published four selected art books: "Exploration of Heaven and Earth", "Exploring the South Seas", "Tragic Humanity", and "The Formless Elephant". The 99 works exhibited this time are selected from these four art books.
Lin Xiangxiong was born in December 1945 in Chao'an, Shantou, Guangdong Province, China. He has loved painting since childhood and was praised by his elementary school teachers for his early "doodles". In the early 1970s, while studying in the West, he experienced a significant cultural gap between Western society and the Eastern way of life, especially influenced by the dominant cultural spirit of Europe. This led him to a deeper understanding of national sentiment and the cultural differences between the East and West, which changed his artistic creation, thoughts, and attitudes throughout his life. He created a series of paintings with strong local characteristics that reflect the lives of the people and the spirit of the times, embodying thematic ideas. Since he began his artistic career in 1963, he has made a breakthrough in his creative work almost every decade: the 1960s focused on Chinese and Western imitation, the 1970s on the natural way, the 1980s on social concerns, the 1990s on people's livelihoods, and the 21st century on human care. His works reflect his humanistic concerns as an artist.
In the past decade, he has dedicated himself to the arduous task of promoting Eastern culture to the world, collaborating with the Chinese Yanhuang Culture Research Association to hold the "21st Century Chinese Culture World Forum" in Singapore and Melbourne, sparking a dialogue between Chinese and Western civilizations, and gaining recognition and praise from many insightful individuals.
