I didn't know what the end was, but I found my way, and I cared more about the direction I was going to take than the sight at the end of the road. At the beginning of the creative process, I thought that it was my thoughts that led to all kinds of art, but as time went by, I slowly realized that it was art that led me to grow with my thoughts, and gradually broke the shackles, "seeing" the wider "world", and understanding that art is the key that can lead me to find the "source" or "ultimate". Now that art has become something that has been immersed in my bones, and it has taken me to see the world far beyond my imagination, what else can I not be satisfied with?
In Search of the Lost Mantra 1 60cm 30cm ink and color on paper 2022So close, so farWen Hu DianliangJust yesterday, I thought I was a piece of crumbs, trembling rhythmlessly in the firmament of life. Now I know that I am the firmament, and that my whole life is a rhythmic and throbbing fragment in my arms. When they woke up, they said to me, "You and the world you live in are just grains of sand in the boundless sea and the boundless shore. In my sleep, I said to them, "I am the boundless sea, and everything in the world is but grains of sand on my shore." ”—Gibran, "Sand and Foam".
In Search of the Lost Mantra 2 60cm 30cm Ink and color on paper 2022 If literati are the seeds of passion, then painters are more sensitive and amorous animals, because they are able to touch the truth of this world more directly and delicately. Bian Yuan is the closest person to me, and the painter I can't see clearly. For art, she has her own independent thinking and judgment, I can see the figure of repetitive work every day in front of the painting, but I can't touch the deep and subtle soul when she meditates and hooks up. 
In Search of the Lost Mantra 3 60cm 30cm Ink and color on paper In 2022, this is like a person who is trapped in the desert and cannot see a grain of sand. However, when you are pleasantly surprised to find the crystal contained in the sand, you will have an inexplicable sense of distance from the desert in front of you. 
In Search of the Lost Mantra 4 60cm 30cm Ink and color on paper In 2022, the ancient Chinese understood rest as a person leaning on a tree, which is not so much a dependence on trees as a thirst for oxygen. For thousands of years, idealistic painters have practiced the conscious understanding of life in the universe through a piece of paper, and tried to communicate with the nature of heaven and soul in the practice of prudence and asceticism. 
In Search of the Lost Mantra·5 60cm 30cm Ink and color on paper In 2022, the human eye's demand for beautiful things is like the animal's need for oxygen in the forest, to be quiet, ethereal, leisurely, and comfortable enough, a good work of art should also be like a big tree that can breathe on its own, with enough space and mind to accommodate the tired and restless soul leaning next to it. Over the past few years, I am pleased with Bian Yuan's quiet transformation in art, not how many perfect works of art she has contributed to the society, but that she herself is gradually growing into a green tree that knows how to actively absorb sunlight and water, can breathe freely, and can rely on her own strength to continuously supply oxygen to the surroundings. 
In Search of the Lost Mantra 6 60cm 30cm Ink and color on paper In 2022, I think that the ancients did not live much better than modern people, and the more industrious, pragmatic and wise the world, the more they need quiet, ethereal and simple nourishment in their hearts. Maybe we are just a group of creatures wandering in the vast universe, greedily pursuing, and what we are looking for in our hearts may only be the faint sense of existence of individual lives. Therefore, when we are depressed in our hearts and cannot be at ease, what we need to communicate and talk about may only be the vast emptiness between heaven and earth. Losing the near in the distance, liberating the reality in the void, the meaning of liberation may be like this. 
In Search of the Lost Mantra 7 60cm 30cm Ink and color on paper Painting in 2022 is just a choice for individual life. As a traveler on the tip of the pen, Bian Yuan's artistic experience has gone from "Impression of the Ancient Town" to the "Deer Safety" series, and then to the current "So Close, So Far" series. In the course of this adventure, Bian Yuan tries to show not the technical expressive ability, but the simple pleasure of indulging in it, this simple and demanding adherence to the process is often understood as a dull and untimely stubbornness, but for herself, it may be the best way to exist. 
In Search of the Lost Mantra 8 60cm 30cm Ink and color on paper In 2022, Bian Yuan carefully tells the viewer about the perceptual world touched by her mind through the image of the picture, as she has also studied painting, trying to predict her next move with her usual logic, but the development of the plot often brings her jerky and unbelievable surprises. 
In Search of the Lost Mantra 9 60cm 30cm Ink and color on paper In 2022, Bian Yuan is a person who likes to run his own big world quietly. When she enters the state of concentrated painting, she will consciously block out all kinds of troubles in life, and perhaps under her calm pictures is the indescribable mixed feelings of her mind. The mist that fills the picture is like an incomparably soft ballad, lingering around the hustle and bustle of the city, and I don't know where I am. The intoxication of the illusory world is not to let yourself be lost in the distance, but to look at yourself soberly in a quiet realm that your heart yearns for. 
In Search of the Lost Mantra 10 60cm 30cm Ink and color on paper In 2022, the distance is a purifier of irritability, and perhaps only in the wilderness and desolation can you listen to the soft heartsong. As Gibran said, "I am the boundless sea, and all things in the world are but grains of sand on my shore." "I think the place Bian Yuan is trying to reach through the picture is to sit on the cloud cliff of the world on the other side, quietly watching the messy fragments of life on this shore and the rhythmic trembling of lonely life in the sky.
In Search of the Lost Mantra 11 60cm 30cm ink and color on paper In 2022, each of us may be a drop of dew in this beautiful world, and the scenery and mood will gradually fade their original luster with the passage of time, but the silent words behind the pen and ink and paper will transcend the boundaries of time for the lonely soul to hear, and obtain the eternity of existence. If a person can embrace the whole world with a pen and care for the true loneliness of his heart in the infinity of time and space, then he has found the true soul home. And as time passes, this place grows into a forest. In Search of the Lost Mantra 33cm 34cm 10 ink and color on paper 2021.
Memories of the Small Window, 1, 55cm, 45cm, ink and color on paper, 2022.
Memories of the Small Window, 2, 55cm, 45cm, ink and color on paper, 2022.
Memories of the Small Window, 3, 55cm, 45cm, ink and color on paper, 2022.
The Secret Story of the Small Window, 4, 55cm, 45cm, ink and color on paper, 2022.
Memories of the Small Window, 5, 55cm, 45cm, ink and color on paper, 2022.
101cm, 33cm, ink and color on paper, 2020.
101cm, 33cm, ink and color on paper, 2020.
58cm, 58cm, ink and color on paper, 2020.
58cm, 58cm, ink and color on paper, 2020.
58cm×？cm ink and color on paper, 2020.
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i.e. Deer Safety·1 915cm, 42cm, ink and color on paper, 2013.
i.e. Lu Wuyu ·2 915cm, 42cm, ink and color on paper, 2013.
i.e. Deer Nothing · 3 915cm, 42cm, ink and color on paper, 2013.
i.e. Lu Wuyu 4 915cm, 42cm, ink and color on paper, 2013.
i.e. Deer Safety·5 915cm, 42cm, ink and color on paper, 2013.
i.e. Lu Wuyu 6 915cm, 42cm, ink and color on paper, 2013.
The Boundary of Weiwei, 1, 80cm, 80cm, ink on silk, 2019.
The Boundary of Weiwei, 2, 80cm, 80cm, ink on silk, 2019.
The Boundary of Weiwei, 3, 80cm, 80cm, ink on silk, 2019.
The Boundary of Latitude, 4, 80cm, 80cm, ink on silk, 2019.
The Gate of Vientiane, 240cm, 95cm, ink on paper, 2020Art resume
bian yuanA native of Nanjing, Jiangsu. He is a professional artist, a national first-class artist, a master's student in Chinese painting at Nanjing University of the Arts, and a distinguished researcher of Jiangsu Painting and Calligraphy Research Center.
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