Untitled
無題

150cm x 100cm

Polymer Acrylic
18K Gold Leaf

高份子塑膠彩
18K金箔

2019

In the Great Qing, the last heyday of imperial China, Giuseppe Castiglione went to China from Macau. He used Western techniques to draw the Chinese bird-and-flower paintings, which opened the door to the Far East. From that heyday, the artist felt melancholy and created the works with inexplicable emotions. He captured and transformed Castiglione’s Chinese paintings, and drew the birds and flowers by adopting back the Western painting techniques. From his works, the sun was big and round, and the “hybrids” were not limited in forms. They were neither Eastern nor Western style, just like hinnies. Hinnies are neither donkeys nor horses, but they are all natural born. According to a Chinese saying “It doesn’t matter whether it is a yellow cat or a black cat, as long as it catches mice, it is a good cat.” Through our generation, will anyone else review themselves in the next heyday? If we are all gone, are we deserved to be recorded?

Curator
Lei Lai

在上一個盛世，郎士寧從澳門踏上了中土。郎士寧以西洋的手法畫國畫花鳥，叩開了遠東帝國的門；這一世太平盛景，藝術家懷著舒適的愁悵，因莫名的情愫而著筆，從郎士寧的國畫中截取、改造，把花鳥仿作成了西洋油畫。太陽很大、很圓；非驢非馬地雜交，自然生長出來的，才是能抓老鼠的好貓。下一個盛世，還有人會以我們這一世為參照，反思自身嗎？我們值得被丟入故紙堆中而煙消嗎……

策展人
雷徠