On September 7 at 15:00, on the occasion the White Dew day, marking the passing from summer to fall, Amy Li Gallery welcomes its fourth solo exhibition in cooperation with artist Li Jikai, entitled White Dew; this time it presents a new batch of easel paintings and, for the first time, colored ceramic plates. It is noteworthy that the catalogue includes a few poems written by the artist since 1997, so that this multifaced exhibition allows viewers to enter one step further into Li Jikai artistic world, and get a better perception of his philosophy and his reflections on life and art.
Li Jikai has a very strong intuition and an ability to perceive the world, and as life flows forward before his eyes, ripe with silent and complex emotions and the doubts that all human beings have in common, Li Jikai, as a distant observer standing apart from the crowd, perceives it all with his intuition, and consciously and accurately reflects the inner world of one man or of a group of men, while preserving the soul's pain and the spiritual solitude. Li Jikai's art gathers these things that we call the charm of the quality of life, such as the feeling of warmth, the value of character, or perhaps some deeply kept memories. On the extended plane of which Li Jikai is the director, this immaterial net always manages to catch your reflections. The mood of a painting is not the monologue of one man, nor self pity, it originates in the maturity of the inner emotions, in a narrative on psychological impressions, in a judgment on the spiritual world, while at the same time not losing its intimate natural appearance. Li Jikai paintings seem to be eternally detached from passing time, yet he eventually puts the time in his palm.
Li Jikai is constantly opening the realm of his creative painting, and if he puts his easel away, he can be a <craftsman> doing art, and from fragments of ceramics, white ceramic plates, go to colored ceramic plates, he restructures the new possibilities of painting, thus widening and extending the space for colors. His coloring à la Chagall is not a concrete accurate expression of objective things at a given time, but rather an experience in coloring that carries high spirits and emotions, and as befits the high temperature kiln, makes the results even more surprising and unexpected.
No upheavals, no reversing, it just looks like passing from summer to autumn, from the Last Heat to the White Dew, it is as though Li Jikai, leaving the age of doubts at 40, starts in the most natural manner to reap on his own art to develop a new autumn, a White Dew that is, as it were, a new beginning.
About the exhibition
Duration: Sep 8 - Oct 27, 2013
Venue: Amy Li Gallery
Opening: Sep 7, 2013 Sat 15:00
Gallery Opening Hours: Tue-Sun 10:00-18:00
Tel: 010-64340616
Add: No.54 Caochangdi(old airport road), Chaoyang District, Beijing
Courtesy of the artist and Amy Li Gallery.
