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Suzhou Revisited - Landscape Series
Mao Yi Gang
Vernissage: 21 April 2005 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Exhibition: 22 April - 25 May 2005
"Suzhou Revisited - Landscape Series" will be proudly hosted by the Schoeni Art Gallery on 21 April and the exhibition will run through till 25 May 2005.
Mao Yi Gang's second solo exhibition features his original new series of landscape oil paintings on the gardens and canal towns of Suzhou. Mao Yi Gang was born in Beijing in 1958 and graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts with a Bachelor of Arts. Having wrought his inspirational force from explorations in Guilin through his "Guilin Revisted - Landscape series", which was held at Schoeni Art Gallery in 2002, the peace and tranquility that is imbued within his work exquisitely reflects Mao Yi Gang's vision of Suzhou's panoramic vista.
Holding nature in the highest of esteems, Mao Yi Gang's reinterpretation of the traditional artistic genre of landscape art is a lingering reminder of the characteristic Chinese reverence for nature in fundamental and elemental purity. In Mao Yi Gang's latest work, the interdigitation of man's existence within nature is essentially constructed in his sonorous composition of balance. Importantly, the human condition is rendered as a secretive pocket nestled into the nurturing force of nature in gratitude.
The profound delicacy with which Mao Yi Gang recalls the beauty of nature's balance and is interlocked with his sensitive portrayal of the human conditional existence within the natural world. Mao Yi Gang achieves aesthetic and elemental harmony by spanning the cultural and physical sublimity of nature's equilibrium in his landscapes through the flow of water amidst the backdrop of vast hills reaching upwards celestially. This exhibition will bring to view the unique characteristics of China's most scenic landscapes, and will be an opportunity to lend light and vision into Mao Yi Gang's portal of understanding, graciously ushering the viewer into another world away from the city.
"I am at freshness, void, tranquility, forgetting the existence of oneself, so that man and nature are united as one entity." (Mao Yi Gang, 2002)
Written by Alexandra Hamlyn
Click on image for an enlarged view.
Suzhou Revisited Series No. 1
O/C, 80 x 100 cm, 2003
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Suzhou Revisited Series No. 2
O/C, 55 x 120 cm, 2004
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Suzhou Revisited Series No. 3
O/C, 55 x 120 cm, 2004
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Suzhou Revisited Series No. 4
O/C, 76 x 90 cm, 2003
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Suzhou Revisited Series No. 5
O/C, 55 x 120 cm, 2004
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Suzhou Revisited Series No. 6
O/C, 55 x 120 cm, 2004
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Suzhou Revisited Series No. 7
O/C, 55 x 120 cm, 2004
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Suzhou Revisited Series No. 8
O/C, 65 x 160 cm, 2004
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Suzhou Revisited Series No. 9
O/C, 55 x 120 cm, 2004
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Suzhou Revisited Series No. 10
O/C, 55 x 120 cm, 2005
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Suzhou Revisited Series No. 11
O/C, 60 x 80 cm, 2005
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Suzhou Revisited Series No. 12
O/C, 90 x 60 cm, 2005
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For further enquiries, please contact Selina Liu.
Tel: (852) 2869-8802
Fax: (852) 2522-1528
Email: gallery@schoeni.com.hk
www.schoeni.com.hk
Exhibition
Venue:
Main Gallery: 21-31 Old Bailey Street, Central, Hong Kong.
Monday - Saturday 10:30am - 6:30pm.
Closed on Sundays and public holidays.
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