【朱雀艺术】「Shan Shui Australis 南地山水」— 刘大鹏首次个展开幕

Portrait of Marie Bashir, 2014, Oil on Belgian Linen, 56x66cm (Private collection)

Nude NO. 352, 2018, gouache on paper, 56x76cm

Nude NO. 360, 2018, gouache on paper, 56x76cm

Shan Shui Australis is the first solo exhibition of Beijing-born and Sydney-based artist Liu Dapeng (b. 1982). Shan Shui "山水" refers to mountains and waters as well as to the traditional Chinese brush and ink landscape paintings. Dapeng's illusive landscape paintings explore the fusion of East and West, the old and the new, and the cyclical nature of time and space. The past bleeds into the present and the present informs the future as the artist portrays grandiose mountain-scapes echoing artworks both from the Song period and the spectacular Australian coastline.

About the Artist

Born in Beijing in 1982, Dapeng Liu is an artist residing in Sydney, Australia. He works primarily in oil and water based mediums on paper, and concentrates on landscape, portrait paintings and drawings. From the age of four he was trained by his father in Beijing to sketch and to paint. Live sketching is a part of  Dapeng’s daily practice and informs and inspires  his works on the easel. In Sydney, Dapeng spent more than five years researching the history of modern Chinese art, and this experience has given him a strong intellectual foundation for his approach to painting.  Dapeng’s quest to strike a balance between the depth of human thought and the quality of technique is a hallmark of his artistic endeavours.

Opening Speaker 

Professor Paul Gladston

Professor Paul Gladston is the inaugural Judith Neilson Chair of Contemporary Art (Chinese Art) at the University of New South Wales. He was previously Professor of Contemporary Visual Cultures and Critical Theory and Director of the Centre for Contemporary East Asian Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham. From 2005 to 2010, he was also inaugural Head of the School of International Communications and Director of the Institute of Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham Ningbo, China. He has written extensively on contemporary art in and from the People’s Republic of China with specific reference to the concerns of critical theory. His recent book-length publications include Contemporary Chinese Art: a Critical History (2014), which received ‘best publication’ at the Award of Art China 2015. He was founding principal editor of the peer-reviewed Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art between 2014 and 2017 and an academic adviser to the internationally acclaimed exhibition ‘Art of Change: New Directions from China’, staged at the Hayward Gallery-South Bank Centre London in 2012.

Exhibition 展出日期

9 Aug - 8 Sep

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