2019 Art Beijing

Date: 2019.04.30-2019.05.03

Location: National Agriculture Exhibition Center NO.11

Booth: C20

“When I was their age I could draw like Raphael or Michelangelo，but it took me a lifetime to learn how to draw like them.” This is probably Picasso’s most famous line. In fact, Picasso is not the only master，Matisse，Kandinsky，Miro and Dubuffet spent their whole life trying to find the expression of simple，sincere and inner need in their childhood, which was not disturbed by the appearance of objects. In 2019, Frogman Art will bring Guido Bottazzo, Mackenzie Thorpe and Arunas Zilys’s work in Art BeiJing to take us through the world as children.

An Italian visual artist Guido Bottazzo’s pure emotions triggered his artistic and eternal will. From his childhood, he was fascinated by motors, especially formula one (F1), which always played an important role in his imagination. He uses a variety of techniques to describe the fantasy of the world, to describe the world with the pure and unpolluted eyes of children, they project the audience into a mechanical reality of imagination full of miracles, accidents and surprises at the same time. We can see the imagination breaking through the cage of the will and reality and establishing a connection with the environment and the spiritual self.

British artist Mackenzie Thorpe who grew up in the post-war industrial city, is affected by the environment background. He hopes people can through the eyes of the children unite the world and understand today’s culture. In order to maintain our society, we have a responsibility to love the children, let them bring love back to the world, let our eyes see the wonders of childhood. He uses childlike processing techniques to express the psychological and physical perception in art.

The Lithuanian artist Arunas Zilys, in pursuit of childlike freedom in painting, uses fantastic colors and meticulous brushwork to depict many vivid characters，creating pure and simple fairy tale dreams for us.

People can get back to basics by learning from children. As Marx argued, the lasting charm of Greek myths is that they represent the true nature of human childhood on the higher ladder. And this is the true meaning of art, also being the fountainhead that artist creation inspiration flows ceaselessly.