Tsubakiyama Gallery is pleased to present "Glimmers of Subtle Shades and Shadows: Artworks of Guo Hai-Jiang". The exhibition visits the unique artistic journey of Guo Hai-Jiang, where he integrates the strengths of Western and Chinese painting techniques to embrace modern aesthetic impressions.
From a young age, Hai-Jiang showed a profound love for the art of painting and has been deeply engaged in artistic creation throughout his life. Continually exploring the nexus between traditional Eastern and Western painting and contemporary expression, Hai-Jiang seeks truth in tranquility and depth in simplicity. He validates his thoughts through his art, incorporating aesthetic interest spanning through ancient and modern times, as well as contemporary perspectives with intricate arrangement into his works. At the
same time, his long-term deep exploration into ancient architectural art has enriched his works with profound and distant traces of powerful artistry. His works transcend the realities of existence, the physical world, personal sentiment, and ode to scenery, returning to the source of artistic creation. Exploring points, lines, and planes, with a variety of techniques like rubbing, texture strokes, and wiping, his works freely traverse the extremes of sparsity and complexity, and burst with infinite possibilities within vibrant colors.
Hai-Jiang's oil paintings are notably rough and rugged, with angular brushwork depicting untamed vitality across the wilderness. His sunflower series presents potent impact, with intense colors, sharp strokes,
and robust imagery, each element amplifying the wild, vast energy bursting from the fields. In contrast, his autumn lotus piece stands stark and solitary, interpreting the cyclic nature of the seasons with a calm poise. His lotus series leverages the characteristics of oil painting to portray an unfolding, carefree mood. His pond series shifts towards geometric construction and desolate silence, presenting a contrast with the soft, blurred light and shadow, forming the artist's distinctive interpretation of the lotus theme.
Among Hai-Jiang's most representative ink paintings, those depicting lotus flowers are the most notable. These works capture the far-reaching and expansive spirit of Chinese art while showcasing two distinctive styles: one is the ink presentation, with a balance of abstract and concrete, an elegant spaciousness, and adept use of techniques like double hook strokes, dotting, splashing, breaking the ink, and texture strokes. The other is the interweaving of ink and color, intense yet graceful, seamlessly integrated, and brightly self-illuminating. These pieces demonstrate the artist's narrative technique of merging the flowing brushwork, shifting ink colors, consciousness movement, and modern sensory construction, revealing the
artist's unique aesthetic impressions.
"The way of painting, as it is said, the universe lies in one's hand, life is all before one's eyes”; Hai-Jiang's works embody the ever-evolving spirit of Chinese art history, blending Eastern and Western modern artistic forms. His approach is one of turning the lawless into law, of distinguishing his law from the multitude, truly standing alone in his uniqueness.
About the artist
Born in 1965 in Taiyuan, Shanxi, Guo Hai-Jiang has had a profound love for the art of painting since childhood, maintaining a substantial amount of sketching in his everyday life. He graduated from the
Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in 1988, earning a Bachelor's degree. Committed to long-term artistic creation, he has been incessantly exploring the intersection of traditional painting and contemporary art, seeking breakthroughs without being confined to one style. He revels in the passionate interplay between ink and color, yet doesn't neglect his research and studies. Like standing on the edge of a precipice, he has devoted countless years in tranquil pursuit of truth and subtle exploration of depth, using his works to affirm his thoughts. He is committed to walking further down the path of art.
中文
椿山艺术空间将在展览空间及线上展出《浅影心象：郭海江作品展》，展览回顾艺术家郭海江携中西方绘画之长，蕴现代审美心象的独特艺术历程。
艺术家郭海江自幼酷爱绘画艺术，长期从事艺术创作，在东西方传统绘画与现当代艺术之间不断探索，宁静中求真实，淡泊中求深入，身体力行，以作品证实思想，在作品中融入贯穿古今的审美意趣及错落有致的当代视角；与此同时，长年深耕于古代建筑艺术的上下求索，为作品注入浑厚、辽远的功力沉淀。作品超越了生存现实与物理世界、超越了风物咏志与个人情怀，回归艺术创作的本源，探索点、线、面，拨、皴、擦，极疏极繁中灵动游走，奔放色彩中无限可能。
海江的油画作品以粗旷见长，富有棱角的笔触刻画出原野上不羁的生命力。向日葵系列作品极具冲击力，色彩浓重、笔触锋利、意象坚韧，无一不使原野上蓬勃而苍茫的力量奔腾呼啸而出；而秋荷一作，以枯寂孤傲的矗立之态，诠释了四季轮回的坦荡泰然。荷花系列作品结合了油彩特点，呈现出慵懒、肆意之态，荷塘系列作品则转向几何构造和空旷寂灭，皆与柔美、朦胧的印象光影呈现出反差，形成了艺术家诠释荷这一题材的独特风格。
海江富有代表性的水墨作品以表现荷花为主，凝练中国艺术精神致远、疏阔的同时，展现出两种各有意趣的风貌：一是水墨表现，运笔虚实，清奇疏旷，娴熟运用双勾、厾点、泼墨、破墨、皴擦，意识流动，心随笔墨；一是墨彩交织，浓重朗逸，浑然一体，辉映自如。作品显示出将笔触流转、墨彩变幻、意识涌动、现代感官构筑融为一体的话语方式，展现了画家独特的审美心象。
“画之道，所谓宇宙在乎手者，眼前无非生机”；海江的作品在历史弥新的中国艺术精神之中，融汇中西现代艺术形态，以无法为有法，以我法别众法，别具一格。
关于艺术家
郭海江，1965年出生于山西太原，自幼酷爱绘画艺术，坚持在生活中大量写生；1988年毕业于天津美术学院，获学士学位。长期从事艺术创作，在传统绘画与现当代艺术之间不断摸索，寻求突破，不拘一格。喜激情奔放于墨、彩之间，亦不敢怠慢学习，如临于谷，兀兀穷年，宁静中求真实，淡泊中求深入，用作品证实思想，致力于在艺术道路上走得更远。