Kirk Pedersen is a famous artist in painting and photograph who comes from US. “Impression of city” will be traveling presented in Shenyang, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Beijing. And this time exhibition in Shanghai is from December 5th to 21st, 2008, as the 4th station.

On the exhibition, there are 83 works on show, including 55 painting works and 28 photographs.

We can find the splendid city landscape and modern civilization which comes from deep spirit through Kirk Pedersen’s art works. With an effective transmitting of vision of his paintings and photographs, we also can feel the passion of the artist.

He always focuses on a fixed location, a busy and crisscross street in city, a turning in street or a corner in a mansion, which are always ignored by other people, and creates from different perspectives. Pedersen seeks and records the transitory moment which seems eternal. His works, which are full of curiosity, changes and romantic poetic, presents beauty and quiet sometimes, and most time shows something will disappear in the following time instead by a modern building.

In the works, the destroyed and erosive city is performed through a metaphor, what showed a cruel reality and society. While the artist intended to display all the works as a whole, they are different from each other and also relative. It brought us sensory stimulation and shock inside.

Kirk used abstract painting ways which are colorful and full of visual impact to picture a destroyed wall in order to search and record the reality of a city life. Color and line are random and out-of-order, which is like the time lapse. The beauty comes from a combination with something abstract and concrete, which presents an intense comparison.

The subject of environment details in his works are similar to these photographers in the middle of 20th century in the US like Aaron Siskind and Harry Callahan ,as well as European painters in medieval such as Antoni Tapies, Alberto Burri and Lucia Fontana. They all managed to express realities while others ignored them.

There is a saying that you cannot step twice into the same river, and it means Changes is eternal in the reality. Pedersen engages in creating when he searching inspiration and he change the nothing remarkable life into a exclamatory scene. Conditions changed quickly in the first decade in the 21st century and these images are pictured in Pedersen’s works. It is a miracle by him.