Academic Events 2023
Works exhibited
Solo exhibition: Gu Liming's Language Transformation: From Mawangdui to Shanshui Fu, Jiushi Art Space, No. 18 The Bund, organized by Shanghai Jiushi Art Museum, co-organized by Useless Space, 202310
Artist Gu Liming delivered a speech.
Exhibition view. Group Exhibition: "Infinity Future" Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition, 798 International Art Exchange Center, Beijing, 202301
Group Exhibition: "Symbiotic World - 2022 Jinan International Biennale", Shandong Art Museum, Jinan Art Museum, 202301
Group Exhibition: Paper + 10 Chinese Contemporary Artists Invitational Exhibition on Paper, Fangyuan Art Space, organized by Fangyuan Art Museum, 202301
Group Exhibition: The First International Biennale of Contemporary Material Art, Nanchizi Art Museum, Beijing, organized by Tsinghua University, organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Academy of Arts and Design, Tsinghua University, and the Latin American Center of Tsinghua University, 202303
Group Exhibitions: "Crossing - Non-Figurative Research Exhibition", "Metaphysics - Non-Figurative Research Exhibition", *Taoxichuan Art Museum, Academy of Fine Arts, **Non-Figurative Research Center, Wuxi King & Wood Mallesons, 202304
Group Exhibition: "Expression Abstraction" Chinese Contemporary Painting Academic Invitational Exhibition, Hanqingyuan China Art Exchange Center, Hanqingyuan China Art Exchange Center, 202304
Group Exhibition: "Chinese Expression", Liu Haisu Art Museum, under the guidance of Shanghai International Cultural Exchange Association, organized by Shanghai Changning District Culture and Tourism Bureau, Liu Haisu Art Museum, China Expression Art Center of the Academy of Fine Arts of East China Normal University, National Cultural Innovation Research Center of Fudan University, Donghua Think Tank Cultural and Creative Industry Research Institute, Shanghai New Hongqiao Culture and Art Exchange Center, Thai Art Center, Shanghai Art and Culture Development***202306
Group Exhibition: "Five Stars Out of the East - The Belt and Road International Art Exhibition", 30th Anniversary Celebration of China Culture and Art Development Promotion Association, Beijing Exhibition Center, China Culture and Art Promotion Association, **Radio and Television Station 202310
Publications, ** works
Gu Liming: We Need a Real Spatial Perception, Shandong Art Museum, 202302 (Click on the title**Interview content).
"Traces of Touch", Gu Liming, Fangyuan Art Museum, 20232.19
Abstract:Using paper as a medium is a more convenient choice in creation, especially after a long time of habit of using canvas as the main means of creation, you often feel stalemate and scarcity, and the convenience and attempt of paper make up for this shortcoming. In fact, the different media, will affect the sense of touch of painting, paper is a more convenient tool in our life, paper is also a simple carrier to convey our cultural values, different paper will convey different cultural information, a different angle of thinking, this choice is related to your cultural awareness.
"Gu Liming: Sending Love to Landscapes, and Things for Spring" Gu Liming Cultural Vision 20234.6
Abstract: The sentiment of the landscape is intended to reflect on the moment when individual life is integrated with all things in heaven and earth, and we rely on the natural order to obtain the self-transcendence of the soul.
"Landscape Fu - Aesthetic Style", "Landscape Fu", Gu Liming (pp. A222-A233), The Commercial Press, ISBN 978-7-100-22521-22023
"Gu Liming: Exploring the Traces of People in "Reminiscence"" Gu Liming's "Library Art" Interview 20238.4
Abstract: Among the practitioners of early Chinese contemporary art, Gu Liming can be said to be a scholar-type artist, from Dostoevsky to Sartre, from Heidegger to Schopenhauer, ......In the process of promoting abstract art, he realized earlier that "the abstraction of concepts, the form and language of art should not just stay in one form, but should have a relationship with real culture, and this relationship with real culture must be closely related to our historical situation." It is under this awareness of this problem that Gu Liming has launched a series of explorations and practices that have lasted for more than 30 years, from Mawangdui to Shanshui Fu.
Traces of Touch: An Interview with Gu Liming - Aishang Fine Arts Gu Liming (pp. 8-15) ISSN 2096-3254 202309
"Art Study丨Gu Liming: Wading through thousands of rivers and mountains, getting always in front of you" (interview) Gu Liming, Academy of Fine Arts, Tsinghua University, 202310.8
Abstract: "The soul needs a lonely place", Gu Liming made the above annotation for the function of his study, in his eyes, the study is a place to place the soul, "I think people sometimes need to be alone, the study is not only a place to read books, but also people will produce a kind of spiritual sustenance in it." Reading is a retreat of time and the adjustment of people's minds, and it does not have to have the purpose of "knowing how much".
Lectures
Cloud Lecture: Collage and Expression: My Painting Material Language Method, Qingdao Yun Shanghai Tian **, Qingdao Yun Shanghai Tian Art Center, 202302
Gu Liming's Symbol Transformation: Tradition and Contemporary", Jiushi Art Space, No. 18 Jiushi Art Space, 202309
Academic conferences
Dialogue on Diversity, "2022 Jinan International Biennale" Academic Seminar, Symbiotic World, Shandong Art Museum, 202302
Social science investigation, further study.
Social Science Investigation, Art Galleries and Museums in Belgium, Rome, Switzerland and Other Places 20238.23
Miscellaneous
Paper + 10 Chinese Contemporary Artists on Paper Works Invitational Exhibition", Fangyuan Art Space, Chief Curator, 202301
Expression + Abstract Chinese Contemporary Painting Invitational Exhibition", China Art Exchange Center, Chief Curator, 202304
Gu Liming's Language Transformation: From Mawangdui to Shanshui Fu", Academy of Fine Arts, Tsinghua University, Push Publish News Report 202308
Representative works in 2023
"Door God".
Whip Door God" 80x60cm oil on canvas 202310.30
One of the Hammer Door Gods" 42x297cm watercolor and toner on canvas 202311.26
Hammer Door God II" 42x297cm watercolor and toner on canvas 202311.27
Sword Door God, 195x130cm, oil on canvas, 202312
Auspicious Ruyi III" 42x297cm watercolor, toner on paper, 20231.31
"Kirin Sending Son" 42x297cm watercolor, toner on paper, 202312.6
"Kirin Sending Son" 42x297cm watercolor, toner on paper, 202312.12
Qin Qiong" 42x297cm watercolor, toner on paper, 20239.11
Wei Chi Gong 42x297cm watercolor, toner on paper, 20239.12
Wenmen Shen No. 2, 140x100cm, oil on canvas, 20236
Five Sons Dengke No. 6" 80x60cm Oil on canvas 20239
Martial arts god no.2》42x29.7cm watercolor, toner on paper, 202312.30
"Landscape Fu".
Shanshui Fu - Jingxi White Stone" 594x42cm watercolor, pastel on paper, 2023
Landscape Fu - Autumn Twilight" 594x42cm watercolor, pastel on paper, 202311.16
Landscape Fu - Moisturizing Things, oil on canvas, 100x80cm 3, acrylic, toner, 2022-2023
Landscape Fu - Travels to the Four Gate Towers, 80x100cm, collage on canvas, acrylic, watercolor, 2023
Shanshui Fu - Yunlin Stone No01》42x29.7cm watercolor, pastel, etc. on paper, 2023
Shanshui Fu - Yunlin Stone No02》42x29.7cm watercolor, pastel, etc. on paper, 2023
*:無空间 uselessspace art).
About the Artist
Gu Liming, a famous artist, one of the representatives of Chinese abstract painting. In 2009, he received a doctorate degree in oil painting from the China Academy of Art. He is currently a professor and doctoral supervisor of the Department of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University, a director of the China Oil Painting Society, and a researcher of the China National Academy of Painting. He was an active advocate of abstract art in the 80s of the 20th century, and after the "85 New Wave", he carried out the transformation of contemporary language based on the foundation of traditional Chinese culture, and the "Door God" series and later the "Shanshui Fu" series, which lasted for decades, have become a classic case of language transformation of traditional cultural symbols and symbolic meanings in the contemporary context. He has devoted himself to the artistic research of folk New Year paintings, Dunhuang murals, and traditional landscape art schemas with profound education and persistent concepts, and has constructed abstract expression painting forms with distinctive personal styles.