Guanting Li : Harmonies

About the Exhibition

Exhibition opening Saturday 12 April with Guanting Li and special performance by Deng Chong Ying (Julia Deng) Guqin music download electronic catalogue here Chinese version  “和Harmonies”李冠廷的人物与山水绘画展   Guanting Li : Harmonies brings together a selection of figurative and landscape works inspired by both Chinese and Western art traditions and experiences. These atmospheric paintings ask the viewer to spend time, to quietly consider and contemplate the depictions of transcendent harmony. We find a connection between heaven and earth, an other worldly realm, particularly in the works where the human figure is rendered as an almost insignificant spectator to the majesty of nature. Other works celebrate flora and fauna in a more straightforward style, birds in a nest; koalas in a tree; the colour of autumn leaves; streams running over rocks – perceptive observations of the harmonious beauty of landscape. Mr Li also depicts figures, often in traditional Chinese costume, building a peaceful relationship between groups of figures or their surrounds. The artworks in this survey exhibition are a harmonious fusion of east and west; of the traditional and contemporary; of calligraphic black line and colour, both subtle and strong; a mix of quietness and the sublime. These strands all come together in Guanting Li’s painting, in a scale of harmonies. Click here to view the video of the exhibition opening in English. Click here to view the video of the exhibition opening in Chinese.