Li Guanshuai participates in the group exhibition "Off the Beaten Path-Illusions of New Generation Painting" at N3 CONTEMPORARY ART
Off The Beaten Path-Illusions of New Generation Painting
Li Guanshuai
2024.09.03-2024.10.08
N3 CONTEMPORARY ART
Through the installation and presentation of artworks, as well as interviews and exchanges, N3 CONTEMPORARY ART seeks to create a transparent artistic space that encourages audiences to explore and engage in dialogue around the individual heterogeneity of artists.
Off The Beaten Path-Illusions of New Generation Painting Installation View
Off The Beaten Path-Illusions of New Generation Painting Installation View
“Through the active or passive production, dissemination, and shaping of everyday content on social media, our discursive context is gradually disciplined by the affirmative big data of likes and filled with a seductively smooth chaos.” This is how contemporary philosophers, including Byung-Chul Han, describe the “transparency society.” Yet the “distinctive subjectivity” embodied by outstanding artists continues to maintain a distance from that of the general subject. By establishing their own artistic languages, they open up new spaces within our existing worldviews, creating fluidity and possibilities for the expansion and renewal of our inner lives.
Fragrant But Sin
2024
Oil on canvas
240 × 190 cm
Painting has an ancient lineage and has, in a sense, acquired an ontology of its own through the act of “departure.” As we travel across the globe and surf the transcultural networks of the digital world, the boundaries between different civilizations and aesthetic traditions are juxtaposed, folded, and dissolved before our eyes, before colliding, intertwining, and evolving within our suspended inner worlds.
After the Flood, Sun and Moon
2023
Oil on canvas
200 × 150 cm
Contemporary painting represents a renewed anchoring of human values by contemporary painters. What appears to be an illusory growth unfolding in seemingly arbitrary directions is, in fact, the painter’s deliberate departure from the alienation of the traditional subject in the creative process—a spiritual resolve to confront the blank canvas alone, in the present moment defined by the limitations of the body and the specificity of time and space. Off the Beaten Path is both an appearance and an ontology: a solitary and courageous elegy for painting’s departure, and, at the same time, a resounding hymn to the vitality of life.
The God of Calmness after Disterss
2023
Oil on canvas
160 × 120 cm
