Recently, the "Temperature of Time" exhibition of paintings by Italian artists participated in by Gullistan and Italian artist Antonio Dachelian was held at the Oga Art Museum. The exhibition, held during the pandemic, is like a bridge that connects the world, art, and people in difficult times.
From the ancient "Silk Road" to today's "Belt and Road", China and Italy have a deep relationship in both economy and culture, and the collision of Eastern and Western cultures has also run through from ancient times to the present. Curator Dr Michel Morpe Anderson said: "Antonio Dachelian's painting is an exploration of the four seasons, nature, fragility, while Gullistan's painting is an exploration of the mind and spirit. ”
In this exhibition, the audience can fully feel the long-standing "fading sense of time" in Gullistan's works. In the process of creation, she dissolves the material into a hazy, warm memory, and uses the elegant "Napoli Yellow" and "Van Dijk Brown" to create a tone closer to light and closer to the poetry of memory. Her works are soaked with the realm of Song and Yuan poetry and the elegance of European classical painting, and when the audience resides in front of her pictures, she will unconsciously be drawn into the relationship between time and space, East and West, and travel and switch between historical imprints and personal memories. Yan Ping, director of the China Artists Association, said: "Gullistan's paintings have a small but long imagination, and I feel in her paintings a process of integration and contrast between ancient and modern and Chinese and Western. I think of Italy, I think of medieval painting, and I think of painting from the Tang Dynasty. ”
Gullistan is currently teaching at Capital Normal University, and her works have been exhibited at the National Art Museum of China, the Remscheid Museum in Düsseldorf, Germany, the Shanghai Art Museum, the Dubai Science and Technology Convention and Exhibition Center, and the Hungarian Cultural Center. In 2020, the Organizing Committee of the International Federation of Women Artists in Rome, Italy, presented her with the "Contemporary Art Creation Award".
The exhibition will be on view until March 29.