IMAGINE GALLERY
　　BEIJING

　　THOMA RYSE
　　Solo Exhibition Opening

　　"COLOR PARTY"
　　SUNDAY April 6th, 2008
　　From 3 to 6pm
　　Exhibition from April 6 to June 6, 2008
　　Venue: Xiangxiang Hualang, # 8 Yishugongzuoshi, Feijiacun, Laiguangyingdonglu, Chaoyang District, Beijing
　　MAP and Directions available on www.imagine-gallery.com
　　Tel: +86 10 64385747 or +86 13910917965

　　The art of Thoma Ryse is a brazenly welcoming song to color, the joy of living, and seeing the world abstractly. The first impression of French painter Thoma Ryse's are of clean, brilliant colors, rich surface textures, a dramatic, lyrical line, and a voice that is filled with the sheer joy of life itself. All his paintings, suggest worlds beyond the edges of the picture plane. That is what is exciting, the world we see before us are helping us to wonder about the world beyond.

  There is a great deal of simple pleasure to be had from Thoma Ryse's art. One never feels overwhelmed by a sense that the artist wishes to impart some kind of "serious" message to us beyond that of the sheer joy that he sees around him.

  Ryse's vision of the world is one filled with a gentle poetry that seems rarely touched by sadness. It is up to the viewer to embrace it, to feel it, and to let it wash through one in peace.

  By Ian Findlay, Asian Art News

  Laetitia Gauden
  Imagine Gallery Director
  Tel:(0086)13910917965
  www.imagine-gallery.com
  Art Exhibitions & Events, Art Projects Coordination, Artist-in-residence Program

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  Laetitia Gauden
  Imagine Gallery Director
  Tel:(0086)13910917965 / (0086)(10)64385747
  www.imagine-gallery.com