EXIHIBITIONS
David breuer weil
On 17 October 2019, I saw his sculptures and sketches in a gallery, and one of them was a curled up human sculpture, which attracted my attention because the theme of my work was related to curling up and self-protection.
Dreamer, 2013 , bronze, 23×33×22cm Flight, bronze
This work of "flight" reminds me of a large sculpture in the marble arch of London. The work makes me feel that the characters are not bound.
Flight
installation at Marble Arch, London, 2018-2019
Christie’s: A Private Sales Exhibition
conceived in 2018
bronze
height 7 metres
This work shows a typical modern image of a parachute - a moving human being. In today's world, no one is bound to a particular place, and we don't see any point in driving thousands of miles a day.
"I've been flying and I've been making a lot of sketches and sketches in the air," David said "Flying liberates the mind. The concept of flying always represents the aspiration and ambition of human beings. But it's also about the freedom of human beings and art. Imagination can fly whenever possible. "
Luchita Hurtado
3 October 2019 in Serpentine Sackler Gallery
This is the painting I saw in Serpentine Sackler Gallery. These are Luchita Hurtado's works. Her depiction of parts of the body made me feel her emotion. And she used a unique perspective and composition and added abstract elements. This is close to my painting. My oil paintings are a part of my body. I think every part of my body can convey emotions and the state at that time. Sometimes you unconsciously have to do something and form a state. For example, when we are depressed or deep in thought, we will unconsciously keep our head down for a long time. Figure 2 shows this perspective. Although these pictures not have a complete action form and expression, it can well show emotion and state clearly.
Katherine Bradford
2019
When I saw her work, it was like experiencing a sleepwalk. Most people in her work are floating in the illusory universe, sometimes reminiscent of the source of death and life. The sense of calm and wanting to escape from this little universe struck me as funny and odd. In her paintings, I feel the freedom and release of the figures in the painter's works. She likes to draw swimmers, because they are wrapped in swimsuits and look very fragile. They will be torn by the waves at any time and then sink to the bottom of the sea.
Group Portrait 2019
The elements of her paintings are always mysterious. The identity, personality and gender of the figures are all vague. These little people have no expression and explore the unknown in the dark background. She pays attention to the mysterious and absurd behaviors of people in the society. In "group portrait" of 2019, she combines blank and realistic painting techniques to show people's perception of the world between the real and the unreal. I really like her color and painting style, which is lovely and humorous.
Felix Vallotton
2019 in Royal Academy of Arts
Dinner by Lamplight 1899 The lie 1898
I saw his work in RAA, paintings and prints. I was deeply attracted by his painting style and atmosphere. He expressed his inner feelings through bold and flat subjective colors. The scenes he painted always have a profound meaning. Seemingly soft and warm scenes actually contain constraints and plots.
His black and white prints satirize the desire, greed and hypocrisy of the middle class and the chaos of daily life in the city with a lot of black features, which makes me feel uneasy and empty. There is obvious irony everywhere in his work.
Co Westerik
2019 in Sadie Coles HQ gallery
I found that these works usually originated from real objects -- hands, plants, bodies and so on. Westerik likes to show the oddity of life and everyday things in close-up, for example, a permanently wrinkled hand, part of the body or hair. He magnifies everything, the meridians of the back of the hand and the texture of the skin, showing the scars and pains of the human body, and the uneasiness of the people. These are similar to my paintings in that they express emotions through a part of the body. From the tangible to the supernatural, bodies are constantly the focus of this shift, aging and transfiguration.
2019 in Tate Modern
This is a photographic work, its form attracts me. It is made up of the Windows of one carriage after another. Inside, people are crowded together. Their expressions are cold, tired and anxious. There is also the inability of people to struggle with the status quo and to compromise and accept it.
Lucian Freud
2019.10.27 in RAA
In Freud's works, different shapes of characters and weird scenes and plots often give people a sense of tension in their hearts. He pays much attention to the emotional description of objective objects, and the indifferent expressions, stiff eyes, nervous muscles and blue tendons of the characters in the pictures are very attractive to me. Although he is a realistic painter, his works are always exciting and full of life. I also have a self-portrait in unit 1, which reminds me of him. His examination of the self and his study of the aging process are so deep that they are worth learning from me.
Dora Maar
2020.2.10 in Tate Modern
Man looking inside a sidewalk inspection door 1935 The Simulator 1936
I really like her surrealist photography. The man in the first picture buries his head into the ground, as if he is exploring something. There is also a sense of uneasiness, fear and absurdity. The sense of insecurity and imbalance of this action also enhances the drama of the picture. In figure 2, there are several people in different directions and angles in the distorted picture. Such unrealistic picture and the emotions of the characters set off the atmosphere of the whole work and enhanced the dramatic effect. She explores surrealist themes, such as the unconscious mind, sleep, and the relationship between art and reality, creating images from dramatic angles and frames to create a new world. I also like photography very much, and I want to express emotions and ideas through photography. I think her images have inspired me to use surrealist ways of cutting and collage to express absurd behaviors and spiritual world.
2020.2.21
This is a video works, a lot of people in a room in the video doing weird action, the whole picture and let us feel uneasy and fear, and it seems to be showed the spiritual world of people collapse. In the video, some people seemed very confused or static, others struggling in doing some strange action, but all of them seem to be of no help, they were trapped in it. The visual effect of this work seen from outside the door is great, because it is a deep room, so when audience walk slowly through it as if we enter the world of the work. This strong visual effect and emotional resonance is particularly interesting and eye-catching.
2020.2.23
In this exhibition, Varejão presents a new series of paintings entitled “Saunas,” as well as new floor- and wall-based sculptural works. In these works, Varejão gives abstraction a human physicality. She painted geometric patterns of ceramic tiles onto canvas, and then she slashed open and filled with polyurethane foam and painted these ‘wounds’ to resemble bodily entrails. The result is disturbing, menacing, yet also compelling.
By contrasting the cold, geometric grid of the tiles with the figurative representation of meaty flesh, Varejão not only creates a tension between painting and sculpture, but also enhances the power and beauty of these two extremes.
I find that The artist seems to have brought the walls to life. the artist has brought it to life or brought it back to life. And the combination of the tiles and the bodily entrails reminds me of pain, temperature, fragility and restlessness. I seem to be able to feel the vitality and explosive power of the tile.
Leon Spilliaert
2020.3.4 in RAA
moonlight and light,1909
I like Leon's works very much, his harmonious color and unique composition all attract me. I like this kind of emotional painting very much, so that the audience can have a resonance. With the help of soft light, he adds mystery and romance, suggesting loneliness and illusion. He is good at capturing images full of loneliness. In his works, many of them are a lonely figure in a dreamlike space. There are other works, which are the weird transformation of night architecture and the strangeness and loneliness caused by artificial lighting, which remind me of van gogh's "starry night".
I have always been attracted by the space, the subtle mood and the quiet and lonely atmosphere. Artists like Vilhelm Hammershoi and Leon Spilliaert are my great inspiration, and their works successfully convey such bitterness and loneliness, which is what I have been exploring. I want to depict a world of surrealism, with some downward force, which makes people involuntarily immersed in it, thinking and awakening in silence.
