When global travel has become difficult due to the epidemic, artist Guo Haiqiang successfully flew to Scotland in early August to start Glenfiddich Artists in Residence Programme in Dufftown. He continues his creative way of rides through the mountains alone and outlines the shape of the ranges in oil, and uses sketches as the basis for his work in Speyside Valley, winter lays snow on hills rising over pagoda roofs and summer colours local fields barley-gold, all year round spring water bubbles in the glen, Scotland. Looking forward to Guo Haiqiang's new works.
Biography
GUO Haiqiang (b. 1980) graduated from Sculpture Department of Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts, currently living and working in Xi’an. GUO is currently working primarily with painting. The artist’s practice inhabits the boundary between sculpture and painting, with an aim to bring shape to his spiritual world. In recent years, GUO Haiqiang has mainly been working in the mode of “sketching.” Although this practice of working “in plein air” is all but rare in art history, and has long since been elevated to a methodological model of artistic creation by Cézanne and others, GUO’s approach is much more than a simple nostalgic repetition of 19th century practices by one inhabiting the 21st. With a shift of cultural context and artistic concept, the artist’s sketches reveal an attempt to infer the truth of things and seek out the underlying laws of everything -- a concept termed “ge wu” in Chinese epistemology. To the extent that it is possible, GUO rejects contemporary techniques, and internalizes what he observes with the naked eye. Then, he translates what he sees of the material world into a simple, yet peaceful inner world through artistic creation. GUO Haiqiang’s solo exhibitions include "Emerging from the Mountaions" (Don Gallery, Shanghai, 2021), "Fengyukou, Qin Mountains" (Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing, 2017), "Tempo, Space & Gravity" (Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing, 2015). GUO’s work has been presented by OCAT Xi’an (Xi’an, 2018), Shaanxi Province Museum (Xi’an, 2017), Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts (Nanjing, 2014).
Biography
GUO Haiqiang (b. 1980) graduated from Sculpture Department of Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts, currently living and working in Xi’an. GUO is currently working primarily with painting. The artist’s practice inhabits the boundary between sculpture and painting, with an aim to bring shape to his spiritual world. In recent years, GUO Haiqiang has mainly been working in the mode of “sketching.” Although this practice of working “in plein air” is all but rare in art history, and has long since been elevated to a methodological model of artistic creation by Cézanne and others, GUO’s approach is much more than a simple nostalgic repetition of 19th century practices by one inhabiting the 21st. With a shift of cultural context and artistic concept, the artist’s sketches reveal an attempt to infer the truth of things and seek out the underlying laws of everything -- a concept termed “ge wu” in Chinese epistemology. To the extent that it is possible, GUO rejects contemporary techniques, and internalizes what he observes with the naked eye. Then, he translates what he sees of the material world into a simple, yet peaceful inner world through artistic creation. GUO Haiqiang’s solo exhibitions include "Emerging from the Mountaions" (Don Gallery, Shanghai, 2021), "Fengyukou, Qin Mountains" (Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing, 2017), "Tempo, Space & Gravity" (Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing, 2015). GUO’s work has been presented by OCAT Xi’an (Xi’an, 2018), Shaanxi Province Museum (Xi’an, 2017), Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts (Nanjing, 2014).
