Arts | ‘Red Pavilion’s Dream’-inspired exhibition opens

Painter Zhang Bin

The oil painting exhibition inspired by a classic book “The Red Pavilion’s Dream,” was launched yesterday at Casa Garden, the headquarters of the Macau delegation of the Orient Foundation
Artist Zhang Bin came up with a series of paintings, the ideas for which come from “The Red Pavilion’s Dream”, after reinterpreting the classic book.
The artist paid close attention during the process to render a dreamy effect in his paintings; the pavilion, mountains and streams, trees and flowers are empty, even deformed by impressionistic style. In the construction of the space frame, Zhang Bin also intended to let natural scenery occupy most of the space, while the characters on the surface are small, representing the center of a dream scene.
The delegation’s director Ana Paulo Cleto emphasized the importance of bringing non-local artists to Macau.
“We have a lot of artists in Macau but it is very important to bring artists from the mainland and other countries so that local artists can gain more because they can see what is done in other places,” said the director to the Times.
She also added that local artists could be inspired by different ways of representing the world as seen in other painters’ work. Staff reporter