Participating Artists: Zeng Qingguo
Exhibition Venue: New Age Gallery（Beijing）
Exhibition Period: 2008.12.6~12.31

The theme of this exhibition is "情境" (Emotional Situation). It originates from the artist's creation from the heart, blending emotions with objects, and merging scenes. The artist observes the universe from a microscopic perspective, creating dynamic inner worlds. This is the result of the interaction between emotions, environments, and objects.

The artist uses traditional Chinese imagery such as screens, doors, and windows to construct virtual organic divisions of space. Through realistic techniques, they depict the so-called "lowly" and "ignored" small insects of the natural world — each a soulful spirit and protagonist of these scenes. The scattered, tranquil, flowing light, described as "a movement, a vibration, a penetrating desire" (in the words of Zeng Qingguo), gives the images a profound and mysterious unreal space. The elegant and serene color tones generate a tranquil and misty atmosphere. This is a unique emotional context world, both familiar and unfamiliar. The illusion, ethereal tranquility, dancing spirits, faint light, and mysterious spaces soothe the soul, purifying inner thoughts and touching all things.

In the artworks, the flying "lowly" creatures and illusory "lifeless" substances establish a close relationship and organic unity, embodying the belief and attitude of pantheism — that everything has life. They reveal our world, carry our thoughts, and harbor our emotions in a supernatural, vivid, unpredictable, yet harmoniously unified world.

In traditional Chinese culture, there has always been a "respect for the natural world and a spirit of cherishing things." This natural view of ancient Chinese philosophers manifests in the aesthetic feelings of the Chinese towards nature, viewing all things in nature as possessing virtue. Humans and nature communicate directly, and humans should treat nature with empathy, living in harmony with it in daily life. The artist skillfully uses the foundation of traditional Chinese culture and artistic function from a microscopic perspective, creating a "state of selflessness" and "state of self," seeking the concept of harmony between humans and nature.

Perhaps, harmony and symbiosis between people and all things in nature have become a pursuit of modern society. The philosophy of "wu wei" (non-action) and tranquil detachment in life seems to achieve an ultimate value and purpose. In the artist's created emotional world, like those dancing spirits, freely flying, thinking, and living, they experience the inner pursuits and feelings of contemporary people and life.