Visual Arts

YALLAY GALLERY shall participate in ART Central HONG KONG in the ‘Rise’ section for emerging artists with a solo show of Chinese artist XU Qu.

This is Chinese young artist Xu Qu’s brand new project for Art Central 2015. The essence of the project is the destruction of the structures and appearances deeply rooted in our mind. The artist attempts to provoke a different way of thinking through a new visual presentation of materials therefore providing the audience a different power to observe and think.

Xu Qu employs a soft and shiny bronze material to reinvent the language of sculpture, reminding us that all that is seemingly indestructible and eternal is in fact tender and vulnerable as well, despite the shiny and sturdy appearance. This bronze linear installation echoes the artist’s work 0.618 from 2014 in which he incorporates the Golden Ratio. As the artist says, the sensitivity of mathematics is present at this moment.

Alongside, the artist presents an iconic series titled The Currency Wars. Obtained by enlarging banknotes watermarks these abstract and enigmatic paintings are a poignant commentary on the system of art collecting.

NOTE: From the “51 m211#” at Taikang Space to the project “Xi Sha, South China Sea Project 1#” and the “Upstream”, Xu Qu’s art practice has always been discussing the aesthetic considerations behind social connections through direct movements. However, although he adopts direct movements as before, he attempts to get rid of any unnecessary elements that distract the theme, using the minimalism to simplify the picture.

The ultimate goal of the artist is to examine the ultimate target of anthropic aesthetics, and what kind of values and thoughts that the confrontation or mixture of different aesthetic experiences would bring us in different eras.