我们并非生活在一个均质的空洞的空间里，相反我们的空间深深浸透着各种特质和奇思异想，它或者是亮丽的、轻盈的、明晰的，或者仍然是晦暗的、粗糙的、烦扰的，或者高高在上，或者深深塌陷，或者是涌泉般流动不居的，或者是石头或水晶般固定凝结的。

——巴什拉 金阳平的这批新作描绘了都市风景，大自然和室内场景。

通过对色块厚薄和前后关系的娴熟控制，金阳平创造了一种复杂的图像，需要观众仔细和反复的品读。在一些绘画中，他将绘画和摄影材料结合起来，进而强调绘画的图像部分来自数字媒介的成像。绘画纯然的乐趣跃然于画布之上，也从反复出现的装饰性母题中得到显现。特别是在他的风景绘画或《嗅林》系列中，金阳平表明，一个现代画家并不一定要局限于母题；颜色、笔触和层次能够独立于图像，并最终产生更抽象的构图。通过运用一种更实验性和随机性的绘画方式，金阳平试图突破现实主义绘画的极限，打破现实主义绘画中主题对绘画本体形式的统制。由此，他一方面延续了中国传统艺术大师发展的传统，另一方面延续了伦勃朗、戈雅、毕加索和巴塞利兹等西方艺术家所代表的西方传统。

本次展览展出的是艺术家近期的新作，也包括了几件较早的作品。展览中的大部分作品是第一次公开展出。

伴随着本次展览开幕，艺术家作品的图录也将出版。图录由阿姆斯特丹都市博物馆策展人马腾·贝尔特撰文。

策展人：马腾·贝尔特

We are not living in an empty and homogenous space; on the contrary, our space is full of unique things and odd thoughts, which might be brilliant, light, crystal-clear, or gloomy, tough, bothering, or condescending, or humble, or ever-changing like spring, or stable like rock.

——Bachelard  The group of new paintings by Jin Yang Ping contain urban landscapes, nature and interiors.

With his virtuoso use of alternating thin layers and thick impasto and a ingenious play of fore and background Jin manages to construct a complex image that requires an intensive and repeating investigation. In some of his paintings he combines painting with photographic material to stress that the imagery  is partly distracted from photographic of digital media. The sheer joy of painting reveals itself as well in the decorative motifs that are regularly introduced. Particuliarly in the landscape paintings or the series that he called Forest of Olfaction Jin demonstrates that a modern painter is not required to a strict following of a motive, but that the structuring of colors, brushstrokes and layers can be independent of an image and can ultimately lead to more abstract compositions. By using a more experimental and less predicteble way of painting he explores the limits of realistic painting where the motive still seems to dominate over the formal elements of painting itself. In this way Jin is as well continuing a tradition that is developed and set by great Chinese masters, but also by a western tradition of painters like Rembrandt, Goya, Picasso and Baselitz.

The exhibition is focussing on the more recent works with some exceptions of earlier paintings. The majority of these paintings are never shown before.

Simultaniuously with the exhibition a calogue will be issued with a text by Maarten Bertheux, curator of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

Curator: Maarten Bertheux