杨希雪艺术创作克罗伊登大学邀请展
获大英帝国服务勋章的杨希雪接受英国克罗伊登大学邀请
在大学画廊举办个人画展
2010年2月8日---3月11号
Space 19. 2003. Ink and Watercolours on Paper. 162 x 102 cm
Exhibition of MBE Hai shuet Yeung in Croydon College
8 February ~ 11 March 2010
Opening Party: 8 February 6:00~8:00pm
In a small still pond the moon is round:
As you look down at water you see how well shaped it is.
But go to the sea and look at the moon’s reflection
You find that the same moon is never round.
The Parfitt Gallery is pleased to present Lines of Thought, an exhibition of paintings by Hai Shuet Yeung. Born in China’s Guangdong (Canton) province in 1936 and moving to Hong Kong in 1958, Yeung then moved to England in 1969, setting up home in Grimsby. His distinctive paintings combine aspects of the western tradition with Lingnan style flower and insect paintings, abstract landscapes and fish paintings. Dr Anne Farrer wrote “Hai Shuet Yeung’s intention is to remove the limitations of earlier painting conventions and to find new compositional formulae and pictorial techniques to portray landscape painting which will enable the contemporary artist to express his ‘lines of thought’ or ‘inner feelings’”.
This exhibition brings together a collection of Yeung’s abstract landscapes and flower and insect paintings that draw on ideas of the micro and macro, reflection, both theoretical and visual, allowing the work to reach a point between the abstract and the real. His mountain landscapes allude to the virtual, positioning the viewer aerially, as if we are viewing Google Earth’s satellite imagery, creating a psychogeographical experience.
Like Goethe’s Italian journey or Samuel Beckett’s travels in France, Yeung retains the status of guest in his new surroundings while being a foreigner to his home country. This is something he has embraced within his work, accepting it as neither predominantly Chinese nor wholly western. It exists like Yeung, between the two. Yeung’s abstract marks are reminiscent of the calligraphic style of Chinese writing, somewhere between writing and drawing with the brush. The artists preferred medium, watercolour, is suggestive of the ‘sketch’ or ‘thought’ that offers the viewer a space to draw from and reflect within. When asked about his drive to abstraction Yeung has said “perhaps the simplest answer is that I want my work to provoke thought… I feel that a painting, while being visually appealing, should stimulate ideas.”
Through suppression comes re-invention and Hai Shuet Yeung provides a new perspective on contemporary Chinese painting, one open to theoretical discourse and unbound by tradition and time.
Michael Hall ma
Parfitt Gallery Curator