Guo Longyao: T- emple

2021.09.02 - 2021.09.26

Curator: He Chi, Yan Bing
Solo Exhibition, ShanghART M50, Shanghai

T-emple is a shelter for the body and mind.
Painting is the smearing, rubbing, soaking, and soothing; the meticulous care and awareness of the gaze on the body and mind.
Where the eyes reach, and beyond the reach, lies the body and mind.
Viewing a painting is not only the contact, communication, convergence, and confirmation of the (viewer’s) eyes and (the author’s) eyes, but also the viewer’s experience and awareness of their own physical and mental state.
The “Audiences”, the “Outsiders”, the “Aliens”, all come later.
If you re-examine the act of painting from the perspective of sunlight, moonlight, the fourth person, the latecomer, you will see T-emple.
Where the sun shines on, the moon illuminates, the art shelters, the T-emple that is held by you and me.
T-emple is built on moments restored from body and mind.

by He Chi

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About Artist

GUO Longyao

Guo Longyao, Born in Gansu in 1989. Graduated from Chuanyin Chengdu Academy of Fine Arts in 2013 and currently lives and works in Beijing. Guo Longyao's works are aerial shots of his daily life when he grew up in the countryside. He placed the main character outside the frame, making him stand together with the audience and the author, becoming one. They watched and felt the scene of Guo Longyao's early life together. These scenes are a mixture of shared memories and imaginations of multiple characters, confusing, blurring and even losing specific details that vary from person to person and from time to time.