Recently, Guangzhou K11 launched two art exhibitions.
One is to join hands with French kinetic sculpture master Vincent Leroy to present the artist's solo exhibition "Dance of Stardust", whose new urban-specific concept debuted in China.
The second is to join hands with Spanish up-and-coming artist Edgar Plans to launch a special art project "Words Have Gravity: Visible Dreams", in which the artist's works were exhibited for the first time in Chinese mainland, and the exhibition hall was specially presented in the form of the world's first artist café and dream library.
It is on the run until 14 March 2022.
Vincent Le Roy's new concept of urban limiting
"Slow Mirror" debuted in China
The exhibition "Dance of Stardust" features 12 installations and manuscripts created by precious artists, focusing on light and shadow, rhythm and original music elements, and creating dialogue and interaction with the audience through dynamic installations.
His new urban-defined concept "Slow Mirror" debuted in China. Composed of acrylic lenses, the work absorbs light, reflects water and reacts to the surrounding landscape, creating a kaleidoscopic, abstract, and ever-changing visual effect. It is as if it is a filter between dream and reality, which makes the daily scenery have a poetic brushstroke.
Vincent Leroy's new concept of urban confinement, Slow Mirror.
Vincent Leroy also excelled at injecting low-tech primitive power into static installations, using slow and constant mechanical motion to give matter the temperature and poetry after it has undergone a time trajectory. This style of creation can be traced back to the "Optical Art" trend that emerged in France in the 1950s. From Sunrise to Arabian Window to Black Diamond, artists create rhythms and jumps in optical illusions by mobilizing the cyclical trajectories of different geometric forms, using the interlacing of longitude and latitude and the overlap of colors.
"Sunrise".
Vincent Leroy has always had a certain ritual reverence and yearning for the behemoths floating in the universe. He uses Nebula as a metaphor for the interweaving of the energies of the subtle things in the universe. The "nebula" hangs down from the ceiling, and in the space of nearly 100 square meters, these huge floating bodies that are constantly being copied "dance" lightly in the contrasting color field, creating a visually stunning sense of compulsion, so that visitors who step into it have the illusion of distortion of the enclosed space.
"Northern Halo".
"Northern Halo" is Vincent's more complex exploration of space, time, motion, form, sound, light and shadow, materials and textures. In this immersive work with a diameter of up to 8 meters, the artist actively creates a theatrical monologue space – ethereal music comes from all sides, and the white aura rotates in a dark space. The expansion of the temporal dimension and auditory perception makes the artistic experience no longer limited to viewing.
Created with artist Edgar Planes
The world's first artist café and dream library
"Word Gravity: Visible Dreams" revolves around the theme of "Coffee, Culture, Art", which combines giant figure sculptures and scattered letter installations into an immersive text world, placed in the exhibition hall of handwritten graffiti style, creating an artist café "Edgar's Cafe" that combines sight, taste and touch; and creating a dream-like family library through giant bookshelves.
Create the world's first artist café and dream library.
Born in Madrid, Spain in 1977, Edgar Planes has been fascinated by graffiti, urban art and comic books, and has always focused on painting. His father, a journalist and writer of science fiction literature, encouraged him to read famous books and supported his desire to become an artist.
Planes thus developed a creative mind that was independent, free, and circumvented from traditional and stereotypical themes. His themes range from criticism of social issues to imaginative character creations, from which he expresses the power of words and the spiritual call to pay attention to the profound meaning behind things.
"Words Gravity: The Visible Dream" exhibition.
The prototype of Juani n, the classic image in Plans's creation, is his father, and the image that Juani n reads with great dedication is also what the artist hopes to convey to us through the artwork: we can be the protagonists of our own lives, and we can become whatever we want to be. The little hero of "Reading Her" stands above the book, holding a pen and paper, loves to read, and grows from words, and harvests the strength to grow from different words.
In "Words Have Gravity: A Visible Dream", art derivatives such as the highly anticipated art doll Little Hero II will also be released in Guangzhou K11 worldwide.
Written by: Nandu reporter Wang Meisu correspondent Lian Xiaoying
Photo: Courtesy of Guangzhou K11