3812 Gallery
Skip to main content
  • Menu
  • Home
  • Artists
  • Exhibitions
  • News
  • Viewing Rooms
  • Publications
  • Press
  • About
  • Contact Us
  • Collect by 3812
  • EN
  • 繁體
Menu
  • EN
  • 繁體

In Praise of Blandness | Liu Guofu

Past exhibition
13 April - 7 May 2021 Hong Kong
  • Overview
  • Works
  • Video
  • Installation Views
  • Share
    • Facebook
    • Twitter
    • Pinterest
    • Tumblr
    • Email
Overview
Liu Guofu 劉國夫 Flower No. 8 花 - 8, 2019-2020 Oil on canvas 布面油彩 190 x 150cm
Liu Guofu 劉國夫 Flower No. 8 花 - 8, 2019-2020 Oil on canvas 布面油彩 190 x 150cm
 “Blandness is elegance, sophistication, aftertaste and eternity.”

Liu Guofu was born in Nanjing China in 1964. His artwork melds motions of light with air. While “light” brings out its depth, “air” helps disperse the “light” to every corner of the work. His use of his symbolic blue-greyish colour is fundamental to his works. Up close, the brushstrokes are chaotic and fragmented, yet from a distance the brushstrokes gather to form a poetic tranquillity. 

In Liu’s new series, “Flower” and “Rock”, the cold blue mottled brushstrokes build in rhythmic layers, resulting in a uniquely translucent beauty. His abstract calligraphic-style, with deliberately illegible markings, overlap in tens of layers to create a fragile texture, reassembling dreams and illusions, smoke and water.

 

 

 

In conversation with Liu's stunning new works, acclaimed Chinese Contemporary dancer Yan Xiaoqiang, accompanied by renowned sound therapist Paul Yip, presents a 15-minute contemporary style Chinese dance performance, resonating with the elegant fluidity and rythmic movement of Liu’s paintings.

 

 

Liu's oil paintings have been exhibited in many major cities. Highlights include a solo exhibition in 3812 Gallery (Hong Kong and London) in 2016 and 2018, a group exhibition in Kunstraum Villa Friede, Bonn (Germany) in 2014, and a solo show in 2011 that toured the Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum (Nanjing), Today Art Museum (Beijing), and the Shanghai Art Museum; In the same year, he also participated in the Parallel Exhibition at the 54th Venice Biennale. Liu's paintings were widely collected by private and institutional collectors, such as  MGM Cotai Chairman’s Collection (Macau), Shanghai Art Museum and Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum. 

Works
  • Liu Guofu 劉國夫, Flower No. 3 《花 - 3》, 2017
    Liu Guofu 劉國夫, Flower No. 3 《花 - 3》, 2017
  • Liu Guofu 劉國夫, Flower No. 6 花 - 6, 2020
    Liu Guofu 劉國夫, Flower No. 6 花 - 6, 2020
  • Liu Guofu 劉國夫, Flower No. 9 《花 - 9》, 2020
    Liu Guofu 劉國夫, Flower No. 9 《花 - 9》, 2020
  • Liu Guofu 劉國夫, Flower No. 8 《花 - 8》, 2019-2020
    Liu Guofu 劉國夫, Flower No. 8 《花 - 8》, 2019-2020
  • Liu Guofu 劉國夫, Flower No. 11 《花 - 11》, 2020
    Liu Guofu 劉國夫, Flower No. 11 《花 - 11》, 2020
  • Liu Guofu 劉國夫, Empty Cold 2019-1 《空寒 2019-1》, 2019
    Liu Guofu 劉國夫, Empty Cold 2019-1 《空寒 2019-1》, 2019
  • Liu Guofu 劉國夫, Empty Cold 2020-1 《空寒 2020-1》, 2020
    Liu Guofu 劉國夫, Empty Cold 2020-1 《空寒 2020-1》, 2020
  • Liu Guofu 劉國夫, Pervasion No. 5 《彌漫 - 5》, 2014
    Liu Guofu 劉國夫, Pervasion No. 5 《彌漫 - 5》, 2014
  • Liu Guofu 劉國夫, Pervasion No. 29 《彌漫 - 29》, 2018
    Liu Guofu 劉國夫, Pervasion No. 29 《彌漫 - 29》, 2018
  • Liu Guofu 劉國夫, Pervasion No. 13 《彌漫 - 13》, 2016
    Liu Guofu 劉國夫, Pervasion No. 13 《彌漫 - 13》, 2016
  • Liu Guofu 劉國夫, Pervasion No. 24 《彌漫 - 24》, 2017
    Liu Guofu 劉國夫, Pervasion No. 24 《彌漫 - 24》, 2017
  • Liu Guofu 劉國夫, Pervasion No. 26 彌漫 - 26, 2016
    Liu Guofu 劉國夫, Pervasion No. 26 彌漫 - 26, 2016
  • Liu Guofu 劉國夫, Pervasion No. P01 《彌漫 - P01》, 2019
    Liu Guofu 劉國夫, Pervasion No. P01 《彌漫 - P01》, 2019
  • Liu Guofu 劉國夫, Untitled No. P02 《無題 - P02》, 2019
    Liu Guofu 劉國夫, Untitled No. P02 《無題 - P02》, 2019
Close
Video
Installation Views
  • Img 0937
  • Img 0945
  • Img 0949
  • Img 0948
  • Img 0943
  • Img 0942
  • Img 0939
  • Img 0938
  • Img 0941
  • Img 0947
  • Img 0944
Close

Related artist

  • Liu Guofu 劉國夫

    Liu Guofu 劉國夫

Back to exhibitions

3812 GALLERY HONG KONG

26/F, Wyndham Place, 40-44 Wyndham Street, Central, Hong Kong

11- 7pm Monday - Friday

Phone: +852 2153 3812

hongkong@3812cap.com


 

 

 

     3812 GALLERY LONDON

        21 Ryder Street, St James's, London, SW1Y 6PX

        10 - 6.30pm Monday - Friday 11 - 2pm Saturday 

        Phone: +44 203 982 1863
        london@3812cap.com

Facebook, opens in a new tab.
Instagram, opens in a new tab.
LinkedIn, opens in a new tab.
WeChat, opens in a new tab.
Join the mailing list
Send an email
Manage cookies
Copyright 3812 Gallery 2023.
Site by Artlogic

This website uses cookies
This site uses cookies to help make it more useful to you. Please contact us to find out more about our Cookie Policy.

Manage cookies
Accept

Cookie preferences

Check the boxes for the cookie categories you allow our site to use

Cookie options
Required for the website to function and cannot be disabled.
Improve your experience on the website by storing choices you make about how it should function.
Allow us to collect anonymous usage data in order to improve the experience on our website.
Allow us to identify our visitors so that we can offer personalised, targeted marketing.
Save preferences
Close

Sign up for updates on exhibitions, artists and events

Interests *

Signup