Resonance
Exhibition Period: 2016/ 11/12 (Sat) - 12/11 (Sun)
Opening Reception: 11/12 (Sat) 3PM
Venue: Shanghai Xiangrun Art Space
Curator: Yang Xueyan
Address: Shanghai Minhang District Yishan Road No. 2016 Hechuan Building 3rd Floor F Xiangrun Art Space (Metro Line 9 Hechuan Road Station)
Shanghai Xiangrun Art Space will hold the opening ceremony of the personal invitation exhibition of Korean painter Lee Erli at 3 p.m. on November 12. A total of 24 paintings, including recent works, will be on display during the exhibition.
splinter
The Fragments
145×112cm, Oil on Canvas, 2011
The story begins with Albrecht Dürer's < melancholy >. In a small surface the size of a notebook, there are countless prints of objects, which have aroused the comments and interpretations of many art historians like riddles. The essence of a riddle is language. Riddles are made up of both questions and answers. To solve the riddle, you need to move the image into the realm of the language. Therefore, everything in the print is not simply a physical object holding a form, but should be regarded as a tokenized image full of unknown meaning. Instead of being randomly selected and placed haphazardly in existing spaces, they are selected and arranged according to some meaningful criterion, creating the space itself.
Resonance - 'Blue'
The Resonance - 'Blue'
100.0×100.0,
Oil on canvas,2014
The theme that Li Erli pursues is 'resonance' from beginning to end. The meanings read from Dürer's prints are easily linked to Li Erli's work. The gesture of the angel in destruction and creation, chaos and order, immersed in the unique temporality of almost infinite repetition, has been inherited by Li Erli now after 500 years. He resonated with Dürer across 500 years.
The essence of resonance is repetition. An object holding energy is vibrating. Vibration produces light and sound. Light and sound are emitted to the outside of the object in the form of wavelengths. Another object in the range of the object's energy propagation is also vibrating and emitting light and sound. When the vibration frequency of two objects reaches the same value, when they begin to repeatedly convey each other's movements, their energies will take care of each other and increase. The combination of this energy produces more powerful light and sound. While transcending the limits of human hearing and vision and creating realms of unknown senses, without a medium that can properly contain this energy, it will ruthlessly destroy the existing stable world.
Fragment - 'Red Chair'
The Fragments- 'Red Chair'
145.0×97.0cm,
Oil on canvas,2012~4
Resonance - 'External'
The Resonance-'Outside'
85.0×85.0cm
Li Erli refuses to indulge in the melancholy after the destruction, or to stay in the aging and decline of all things, and he explores the root causes of this disaster with an almost academic attitude. And the reason, of course, is strength. The generation and trajectory of power and the fate of falling into violence as the scope of power and spread expands.
While destroying traditional and stable forms like luxurious furniture, this violence also creates many fresh images that do not exist in everyday life. Looking closely at the cracked walls, we can even find a specific pattern in the cracks that spread unchecked—wrinkle-wide lines formed by the enormous pressure exerted from above. An amazing force that can easily deform the thick cement like cream. Li Erli's recent works emphasize the material power that can act as both destruction and creation.
Because of this emphasis on pressure, Li Erli's recent works take the form of an abstract painting, reshaping three-dimensional objects on a flat surface. A concrete wall becomes a simple canvas in order to be close to the material of the painting itself. The patterns produced by the pressure create an illusion of abstract lines of wavelengths that emanate from each resonance.
Cement and paint, walls and canvases, world and art, figuration and abstraction, these opposing themes resonate constantly while generating great energy each. Li Erli's recent works seek to capture those typical images in the midst of resonance and destruction.