Time: 2023.09.15 - 2024.10.14
Location: Exhibition Room
Preface:
Shudan Li's sculptures show his soft and delicate emotional flow and spiritual thoughts. At the same time, these art sculptures also carry people's visual consensus, collective memory, and infinite imagination about daily objects -- To see the light through ordinary stuff.
This exhibition uses the phrase ‘Poem of Woods’ to highlight the characteristics and significance of the artist, Shudan Li's art creation. Shudan Li’s works often apply natural materials as carriers for creation and conception, which is an important starting point for the theme of this exhibition. ‘Deep Forest’ is a metaphor for drawing from nature, co-creation, and integration; it also expresses the relationship between humans and nature, and the relationship between creators and materials. He often collects trees blown down by strong winds, and pebbles scattered along the river to conceive and carve. This is inspired by nature.
Another meaning of ‘Deep Forest’ is the process of leading viewers to explore the depths of their hearts through sculptures. Using fruits as the image, the woods are carved with simplicity, ground and rendered with mineral pigments, showing freshness, vitality, and humor. Every trace of the hand-carved it also conveys the creator’s philosophical thoughts on the death and rebirth of a tree, its energy conversion, and cause and effect.
About the artist:
Shudan Li was born in Shantou, Guangdong in 1994. He graduated from the Sculpture Department of the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts with a Bachelor's degree and a Master's degree. He currently works and lives in Chongqing. He has held numerous solo exhibitions and participated in important group exhibition projects.