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| Liu Dao's first ever solo exhibition, "Garden of Autumn Vapours", is shown in Red Gate Gallery during August 2010, bringing in
the lìqiū立秋, the beginning of autumn in the Chinese
calendar.
Nature’s cosmic breath of life is no better understood nor appreciated than by the Chinese scholar, lost in a bamboo grove,
for the garden is a natural landscape for some, and a sanctuary of social
contemplation for others. The garden is a skeletal world of Taizu stone, providing strength for the weary and offering courage to the weak. From
its playful peonies, and lavish plums, lessons have been learned in the art of
leisure, truly, the Mother of all philosophies.
Like the Chinese garden, the works in this exhibition were born first from the tender branches of innocence, peace and
tranquility.
With LEDs, the network of electronic life inside each
frame is homage to China’s cultural interconnectivity, and a replica of roots,
veins and neurons found in nature. Liu Dao presents the nation's miraculous
developments in the forms of blinking, majestic butterflies, brightly shining
goldfish swaying ponderously along bonsai trees, and glinting sparrows darting
across the sun. (read more >>>) |
