Qiu Shihua

March 9 – April 29, 2023
Galerie Urs Meile Lucerne

"The landscapes in my works are no more than an entry point. They are a kind of orientation aid, quasi mental picture world. Landscape is an offer, not a simple pictorial object. As for my relationship to the landscapes in my paintings, I cannot say whether they are a reflection of me or whether I am one of them. In any case, they are ambiguous. It is the same with the viewer: if he succeeds in gaining access to the picture, he also unconsciously loses his own reality. In a real landscape, one is clearly distinguished fromnature; in the paintings, the separation between our existence and nature blurs: they become one."

- Qiu Shihua in Beijing / Shenzen, Autumn 2011

 

Press Release - English

 

The focus of this exhibition at Galerie Urs Meile Luzern is exclusively on the oil paintings of Chinese artist Qiu Shihua (*1940, in Zizhong, Sichuan Province, China). On display are works in various formats, created since 1997. The viewer is confronted with, at first glance, almost monochrome white canvases - on which unique landscapes are revealed.

Press Release - Deutsch

 

Der Fokus dieser Ausstellung in der Galerie Urs Meile Luzern richtet sich ausschliesslich auf die Ölmalereien des chinesischen Künstlers Qiu Shihua (*1940, in Zizhong, Provinz Sichuan, China). Gezeigt werden Werke in verschiedenen Formaten, entstanden seit 1997. Die Betrachter:innen werden mit auf den ersten Blick beinahe monochromen weissen Leinwänden konfrontiert – auf denen sich einzigartige Landschaften enthüllen.

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OPENING

Thursday, March 9, 2023, 17.30 - 19:30h

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