范扬宗：霓岸
Fan Yang-tsung: Rainbow’s Edge
策展人 | Curator: 杨鉴| Yang Jian
艺术家 | Artist: 范扬宗 | Fan Yang-tsung
开幕时间 | Opening: 2025.11.8
展览时间 | Exhibition Dates: 2025.11.8-2025.12.10
地点 | Venue: 蜂巢当代艺术中心 | Hive Center for Contemporary Art
地址｜Address: 北京市酒仙桥路4号798艺术区E06 | E06, 798 Art Zone, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
Hive Center for Contemporary Art is pleased to announce Rainbow’s Edge, a solo exhibition by Taiwanese artist Fan Yang-tsung, opening on November 8 at Hive Beijing, Galleries B and C. As one of the most prominent painters of Taiwan’s younger generation, this exhibition marks Fan’s first solo presentation in mainland China, featuring over ten of his latest works from the past two years.
Born in Hsinchu, Taiwan in 1982, Fan graduated from the Art Program at National Hsinchu Girls’ Senior High School and later obtained his MFA in Painting from the Graduate Institute of Fine Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts. His works are included in major public and private collections such as the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Sunpride Art Foundation (Hong Kong), El Segundo Museum of Art (USA), and X Museum (Beijing). The exhibition is curated by Yang Jian and will remain on view through December 10.
From his Inside the Car series to the Nightclub paintings, Fan has consistently shown sensitivity toward soft, ambiguous environments and has sought to capture them through the solid, visual language of painting, searching for a precise balance of expression. Whether it’s the intimacy and isolation within a closed car space or the mingling and detachment within a nightclub, Fan uses painting to solidify atmosphere, scent, temperature, and the emotional threshold before desire is either suppressed or released.
With his Swimming Pool series, the artist seems to have found the most fitting setting and context to carry his emotional expression. The pool, as a kind of “exempt zone” in social life, grants the body permission to be exposed and observed in the public domain, transforming a silent physical activity into a new field of visual and emotional expression. Fan captures this unique quality, making the pool a perfect vessel for his artistic exploration.
The title Rainbow’s Edge—a composite phrase—suggests a borderland between romance and reality, desire and emotion, the real and the imagined. This liminal zone, elusive in words yet perceptible through sensation, marks the edge Fan continuously seeks in his painting practice. His pool scenes often explore counterpoint relationships: between water and land, the gazer and the gazed-upon, swimmer and reflection, surface and depth. Through these paired spaces, Fan generates emotional tension and visual confrontation. His treatment of edges—sharp and restrained—amplifies this dynamic, while his fluid, meticulous brushwork shapes the tangible world with extraordinary control. To Fan, every technical decision—from the handling of medium to the layering of pigment—serves as a means of emotional calibration, pushing both feeling and form to their limits.
The exhibition unfolds across two contrasting spatial experiences, guiding viewers into Fan’s imagined “pool realm.” The first gallery presents works in a bright, sunlit environment, as if placed under the direct scrutiny of an open, public gaze. The second gallery, conversely, is dimly lit—each painting illuminated to evoke the sensation of observing from the shadows, echoing the voyeuristic perspective that often informs Fan’s compositions. The interplay of light and mood—between ambiguity and sharpness, public and private—accentuates the artist’s complex emotional register and the captivating precision that defines his visual language.
