Standing in the vast Jiachen New Year, Wu Keyang received invitations from many countries in the world to hold exhibitions, and the conditions were favorable. Wu Keyang has never felt so proud that Eastern culture is so accepted, recognized and respected in the equally ancient Western culture.

Art has no borders and culture has no borders. This sentence is well reflected by Wu Keyang. In the past month or so, Wu Keyang's name has spread throughout the Italian art world.

Perhaps, from the moment Wu Keyang's paintings with distinctive oriental cultural heritage landed in the Palazzo Bisani, Italy's highest art palace, the door to international art was destined to be opened for him.

Find an artistic outlet

In today's oil painting art field, Wu Keyang's name represents a unique artistic style.

In October 1973, Wu Keyang was born into an educational family in southern Fujian. He was influenced by the fine traditional Chinese culture since childhood, read poetry and books, and had a very strong interest in and deep understanding of Chinese traditional culture. After studying, Wu Keyang did not hesitate to choose In 1998, Wu Keyang graduated from the Art School of Xiamen University, majoring in oil painting.

Reading thousands of books is worse than traveling thousands of miles. After graduation, Wu Keyang chose a unique path of art. At that time, Wu Keyang began to travel around China. He left his footprints in cultural holy places such as the Three Mountains, Five Sacred Mountains, and the Four Grottoes. In order to get closer to art, he visited celebrities and elegant people, and ate and lived with the practitioners in the mountains for several months. , feel the connection between nature and life.

During this period, Wu Keyang never stopped using the pen in his hand. He translated every moment he felt through the tip of the pen onto the paper and created classic sketches one after another. Currently, he has created nearly 800 sketches.

In 2009, Wu Keyang was invited to conduct an art visit to various European countries. It was this journey that had a profound impact on Wu Keyang's future oil painting art.

Wu Keyang visited many famous historical and cultural cities in Italy, France, Germany, etc. In the following years, Wu Keyang often went there for more than half a year, most of the time abroad, and visited more than 1,000 museums, art galleries, and historical and cultural sites in Europe. It is precisely because of this that Wu Keyang's attainments and achievements in Eastern and Western culture and art were laid.

In Wu Keyang's paintings, he expresses and interprets Eastern philosophy, Eastern aesthetics and Eastern culture to new heights with his skillful Western techniques. Under the collision and blending of Eastern and Western cultures, Wu Keyang successively created the "Gold, Silver and Bronze Portrait Series", "Dunhuang Series", "Spiritual Series", "Spiritual Realm Series", "Consciousness Series", "Walker Series" and "Super Imagery Series". Thirteen series of works, nearly 200 classic oil paintings.

Landing at the Palazzo Bisani

September 27, 2023, for Wu Keyang, this is a day worth remembering forever. The first European exhibition of Chinese artist Wu Keyang was held in the Grand Noble Hall of the Bisani Palace, Venice's most prominent cultural heritage.

This is Wu Keyang's first international personal painting exhibition, and it is also the first time in the past century that a Chinese has held a personal painting exhibition at the Bisani Palace. The exhibition includes 23 of his most representative oil paintings and 89 charcoal sketches.

The first is the visual shock, which arouses inner waves.

As soon as Wu Keyang's paintings were exhibited, they brought spiritual impact and visual shock to the European painting world. Art lovers from all over Europe and the United States came in an endless stream. Wu Keyang's name spread throughout the European art world and resounded throughout the Italian literary and art circles.

This was something Wu Keyang had never expected.

18世纪西方洛可可主义曾借鉴并融入中国的宇宙观，如今这一有趣的对话正在被吴轲阳重新诠释：平坦背景上的抽象、形而上的象征主义，或克里姆特式的裂变主义遗珍。各种元素的宇宙游戏倾注在山野植被中，这些植被或繁茂或裸露，总是充满鼓舞人心的生机，原始人物、动物、自然之灵，栖息于岛屿或土地，根系却深植于天空、或倒映入平静的水波。

Mr. Bo Xiwen, the former Director of the Department of European and International Affairs (Doctor of Laws in Frankfurt), after seeing Wu Keyang's works, specially invited Wu Keyang to his home and established a deep friendship.

Roberta Reali, a well-known European art historian and critic, said in his review that he (Wu Keyang) is fully aware of his identity as an artist and realizes the social function of art. His education is rooted in Eastern traditions, and at the same time he studies the West deeply; He used an astonishing expression of free exile to routinely "do nothing" in his paintings. Paintings, poetry, and calligraphy are transformed into oil paintings on canvas or ink (charcoal pen) on paper or silk, and the painting space is constantly recreated with ancient and modern wisdom. The classic subject of Symbolist landscapes, depicting naturalistic elements to reflect mood and inner reality. With a rare sensitivity to the macrocosm, he re-examines and integrates traditional Chinese elements (islands, trees, clouds, water droplets, spirals...), for example, using the forms of futuristic and surrealist paintings.

People are the best scenery

Explore the soul and explore life. The spiritual scenery is life right now.

Wu Keyang, who returned triumphantly from Italy, chose to remain as low-key as ever. When facing a reporter from Minsheng Weekly, Wu Keyang said that in fact, talent is the best scenery, the soul is the most beautiful scenery, and the soul is the most worth exploring.

The levels are different, the perceptions are different, and the scenery seen is also different.

Wu Keyang told our reporter that he originally saw a timeline and drew a dynamic world; but after an accident and a near-death experience, he gained a newer and more unique understanding of life: the present is life, and the present is life. Life.

Perhaps this was an epiphany, a "blessing in disguise". Since then, Wu Keyang's paintings have also undergone changes. Each painting can always touch the depths of his soul.

Wu Keyang told reporters that he used to love traveling and just looking at flowers, which was a way of looking at the small. But now that he can immerse himself in cultural and artistic creation, he can stay and forget both things and himself. This is using the small to look at the big. After experiencing many twists and turns, I often look at the world and life from the dual perspectives of traditional culture and art.

A life-and-death disaster made life more transparent and allowed Wu Keyang to understand the meaning of life better than ordinary people.

Some people say that Wu Keyang's paintings are paintings within paintings.

Wu Keyang said: Keep your original intention, return to nature, and see the big from the small. Isn’t the world we see made up of many small worlds? The relationship between us humans and nature, the relationship between us humans, and the relationship between humans and our hearts are all the most beautiful scenery and the eternal subject of art.

In fact, the charm of a painting lies not only in one person's understanding, but also in the millions of people's understanding of it.

From a visual perspective, Wu Keyang's paintings are "looking at the big from the small", but from a philosophical and even human consciousness perspective, his paintings are "looking at the small from the big", capturing those wonderful moments with artistic lines. Presented to everyone in a colorful way, let us cherish life and live in the present.

When we can "see the big with the small" from Wu Keyang's paintings, we will have a world view; when we can "see the small with the big" from his paintings, we will have our own true outlook on life.

When Wu Keyang's paintings landed at the highest palace of Italian art, it was definitely a cultural event where Eastern and Western cultures blended together.

And Wu Keyang's artistic path may have just begun.

——Zhang Bing (writing)