The 26th Autumn Guangzhou International Art Fair (referred to as the 26th Guangzhou Art Fair) will be held from December 17 to December 20 at the Nanfeng International Convention and Exhibition Center, with an exhibition area of nearly 20,000 square meters. It will be guided by the idea of "focusing on global vision, analyzing the trend of purchasing collections, reconstructing the art market, and leading the aesthetics of life", and divided into "Vision International Pavilion", "Metamorphosis • Contemporary Pavilion", "Gathering • Art Gallery", "Investment · Collection Hall" four theme pavilions. At the same time, it will hold a number of theme exhibitions such as "Great Beauty of Heaven and Earth" - Lu Yushun, President of the National Academy of Painting of China, "If the End of the World is Next To Each Other" - Yang Yuanyi Photography Art Exhibition, as well as many heavyweight activities such as international art awards and art celebrity shows.
About the artist
About the artist
Liu Kai
In 1984, he was admitted to the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and graduated with a bachelor's degree in literature in 1988. In 1993, he was admitted to the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts as a graduate student majoring in watercolor painting, and graduated in 1996 with a master's degree in literature, and has been teaching at the school ever since. He is a visiting scholar in the Department of Philosophy of Sun Yat-sen University, and has studied in the International Art City in Paris, France for many times.
He is now a professor at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and a tutor for postgraduate students. He once served as the director of the Color Teaching and Research Department of the School of Education of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, the director of the Watercolor Research Center of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, a member and judge of the Watercolor Art Committee of the Guangdong Provincial Artists Association, and a member and judge of the Guangdong Provincial College Watercolor Painting Academic Art Committee.
Liu Kai paints a peach forest under the Nanga Bawa Peak
Liu Kai painted on the brahmaputra river
Exhibition by the lake
Exhibitions in the small town of Lulang
Famous reviews
Expert Review
Searching for the Far Side: About Liu Kai's Paintings in Tibet
Text | Yang Yan
Professor, School of Communication and Design, Sun Yat-sen University
Art critic and scholar of visual culture studies
Entering Tibet is a test.
The test is the road, the plateau. The road is not only long, but also rugged and difficult to navigate, but also dangerous; the plateau is not only high in altitude, but also lacks the necessary oxygen, so that people, especially those living in the plains and coasts, come to this place, it is difficult to breathe, the body is weak, even in the face of spectacular scenery, can only be sleepy, can not stop.
Although the roads are now clear, asphalt roads have been built in most places, and the places where mountains and mountains are crossed are more strictly managed, it is natural not to say that victory can be overcome, and even nature is invincible. Dangers remain, steep mountain passes are always steep, landslides and cracks occur suddenly from time to time. Compared with the vast universe, man is only a small existence. It is precisely because man is small that he understands why he is in awe. Altitude sickness does not occur according to our will, unless we live in a place with thin air for a long time and adapt to such an environment.
Everything can only be done slowly.
Slowly skirting around the edge of the mountain, slowly ascending the plateau, slowly adapting to the climate, slowly reviving self-consciousness in confusion.
Entering Tibet is even more of a temptation, because the distance is calling.
The distant call is particularly charming with its mysterious and dangerous, and the distant call is more like the beginning of life's fate, implying an irresistible force.
It was under this call that Liu Kai, driving a motorhome that he had remodeled a few years ago, began an annual expedition from coastal road through the plains to Sichuan and then into Tibet and then deep into Tibetan areas. He was a brilliant painter, so he went all the way, and there was anytime, anywhere sketching and photography, as long as the scenery was strange and charming.
He was looking for far away. He went actively, resolutely, excitedly, and, like a pilgrimage, to the distant places.
Years have passed. When Liu Kai held the results of his distant journey, that is, the notes he wrote along the way, the characters and landscapes he painted along the way, collected and bound into a book, and handed them to me, I was still surprised. I said, "Didn't you just come back from your trip?" Liu Kai nodded and said, "Yes, just now, but you know, I seem to have crossed two worlds, so once I return to the world I am familiar with, I have to quickly publish the other world." He said mysteriously, "Otherwise, that world will disappear very quickly." ”
The point is, just now, not long back to Guangzhou, the weather permits, the climate is suitable, he drove away again.
When the scenery was suffocating, he suddenly couldn't help but stand on the roof of the car, raise his hands, and use all his strength to exhale so many times until he was out of breath.
Liu Kai also found that the most beautiful nature is the exhibition field. He placed sketches on the top of the plateau, beckoning the locals to watch them together, and greeting the travelers who hurried by to stop and talk.
Liu Kai found that even his audience over there was far away!
We used to believe that "man will triumph over heaven." More than half a century has passed, and the search for our victory is nothing more than man-made destruction again and again, which is to make the pleasant environment no longer pleasant, to make the water no longer clean, to make the air into smog, and to transform the landscape into a clumsy imitation of the art.
Nature is fair, and there must be revenge for arrogant challenges that violate its laws, without mercy. Today, we finally realize the truth of harmonious development with nature, and begin to deeply experience the true meaning of "the unity of heaven and man" and "nature" emphasized by our ancestors. A reverential heart for everything in the universe gradually rises in the heart.
Liu Kai realized this more than ever. He searched for distant places, through sketching, through art. In fact, all real art is in the distance, and we need to desperately seek it, so that individuals can also return to the distant place in the search, where there is real nature.
I carefully admired Liu Kai's watercolors and oil paintings in the distance. I was surprised to find that there was a hue in it that he hadn't had when he was in Guangzhou. It doesn't seem like a trick. This has nothing to do with daily training, so it is not a skill. The lack of oxygen in the distance itself is a force from the heavens, and under this power, Liu Kai found that his eyes will be particularly glowing, and his experience will be unprecedented and unprecedented. He walked solitary on a winding mountain road, and he never felt so full, a kind of solitary fullness. Liu Kai's creation in the mountains of Tibet is the sublimation of this isolated and fulfilling state of speechlessness. This sublimation is unavoidable, and it has an eternal enlightenment for Liu Kai, a southerner, and also makes him unstoppable, always ready to go on the road again and implement all his personal inspirations in the distance.
The album in front of me is the product of this flash of inspiration. All the paintings in front of me are physical evidence for continuing to walk in the distance in the future.
Liu Kai's ideal is to always embrace art in the distance.
Appreciation of works
Appreciation of works
Figure | Oil painting "Peach Blossom Fragrance in peach blossom ditch" 107×204cm
Figure | "Tibetan Village Full of Peach Blossoms" Oil painting 122×244cm
Figure | "Peach Blossoms" Oil painting 100×140cm
Figure | Oil painting "Peach Blossom Competition in Mountain Village", 87×106cm
Figure | Oil painting "Linzhi Peach Blossom Full of Branches" 98×132cm
Figure | oil painting "Peach Blossom Tree in Gala Village, Tibet", 98×132cm
Figure | oil painting "Peach Blossom Ditch in Duodang Village, Tibet" 98×132cm
Figure | Oil painting "Millennium Poplar Tree", 197×146cm
Figure | "Midui Forest Road" oil painting 87×106cm
Figure | "Midui Glacier" oil painting 122×244cm
Figure | "Tibetan Old House" Watercolor 78×109cm
Figure | "Old Tibetan House" Watercolor 78×109cm
Figure | "Nyingchi Shepherd" watercolor 76×56cm
Figure | "Lanza Living Buddha" watercolor 105×75cm
Figure | "Tibetan Girl" Watercolor 139×102cm
Figure | "Old Man Ganzi Baima" Watercolor 105×75cm
Figure | "Datunma Grassland Herders" Watercolor 105×75cm
Figure | "Flashing Hidden Clothing" Watercolor 105×75cm