Time: 01/04/2022--23/05/2022
Location: S311, Block A, PMQ-Staunton, 35 Aberdeen Street, Central, Hong Kong
"I am rafting alone in the long river of time, and the place where a flat boat floats is my Jiangnan."
In the creation of Shanghai artist Gao Xiaoyun, the Jiangnan water town can be regarded as a cultural symbol. The faint rain, misty bridge, flowing water, and the floating boat, all interpret in a moving way the truest Jiangnan Spirit. Beyond a realistic scenery, Gao Xiaoyun portrays water town in a poetic and dreamlike way, giving the viewers infinite imagination space with a glimpse of clear and translucent colours. In his ingenious creation the memory and reality overlap with each other, softly enveloping a dreamlike poetry. With the exquisitely blurred boundary of time and space, the charm of ancient oriental art "there is painting in poetry, and there is poetry in painting" shines in his hands.
A series of Gao Xiaoyun’s oil paintings with the theme of water town are curated this time to show how the artist pursues static and dynamic, active and passive intervention in the language of imagery landscape work. Welcome to AI Gallery to breathe with us the beautiful nostalgia and get lost for a while in the wonderland.
About the artist
Gao Xiaoyun (Gao Jing) was born in Shaan Xi province, China and graduated from the Department of Oil Painting, the China Academy of Fine Art. He currently lives and works in Shanghai. He participated in the development of the Shanghai Pudong Artist Village and Puxi Art District, and founded the Cloud Gallery, 3A Gallery, and Xiaoyun Culture. His oil paintings contains the spirit of ink brush art, hence have been collected extensively in the UK, Holland, the USA, Germany, France, Australia, Switzerland, Israel, Taiwan, Singapore and China.
“我撐著竹筏於時間的長河中獨自划過，那輕舟蕩漾的地方就是我的江南。“
在上海藝術家高小雲的畫筆下，江南水鄉可以被視作一種文化象徵。微風細雨，若隱若現的小橋，輕舟於水面上浮動，這一流動的風景就是江南真正的靈氣所在。在真實的場景之上，高小雲描繪出一個夢幻又詩意的江南，觀者只需一瞥那清澈透亮的顏色，就可以進入無限的想像空間。在他精巧的創作裏，現實與記憶交錯重疊為一首如夢似幻的詩。時空被巧妙地模糊了界限，古老的東方藝術中“如詩如畫”的境界在他的手中被詮釋得格外出色。
隨著此次高小雲的一系列水鄉主題的畫作在AI Gallery中展出，您可以看到在意象風景作品中，藝術家是如何呈現動靜交織的視覺效果，以及主動同被動的介入語言。歡迎大家來此仙境中短暫一遊，同我們一起做一場美麗懷舊的夢。
關於藝術家
高小雲（高靜）出生於中國陝西，畢業於中國美術學院油畫系。目前於上海生活與工作。曾參與發起上海浦東畫家村，浦西藝術家園等多個藝術家聚集地，先後創辦雲海畫廊、3A畫廊和小雲文化。因其油畫作品帶有水墨意境，受到如英國、荷蘭、美國、德國、法國、澳大利亞、瑞士、以色列、台灣、新加坡，中國等各地藏家的廣泛歡迎。