This weekend I was captivated by the large scale, intricate, and mystical drawings of self taught artist Guo Fengyi showing at the Contemporary Art Gallery until April 15, 2012. Her work is described as "mark-making". There is something very satisfying about this idea of making marks. I found myself drawn to the colourful strokes of ink and the faces upon faces in her images. I will definitely be going back for another viewing.
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| Guo Fengyi at work (photo courtesy of http://www.leregional.ch/N32701/je-peins-pour-savoir.html) |
Excerpt from the Contemporary Art Gallery Bulletin:
Guo Fengyi began drawing after illness brought her to the healing
practice of Qi-qong (a traditional Chinese health practice as a
means to cultivate qi energy within the body). Combined with her
study of theories of mysticism, she began having visions when in
these meditative states which she felt compelled to translate into
drawing. Guo’s subject matter encompasses these traditional
concepts of thought with Chinese philosophy, myths, cosmology,
acupuncture energy maps, divination and dynastic sites — all
systems which are fast disappearing in a modernizing China. Her
works are charged in every sense, bringing together notions of
creativity as acts of everyday life. Redolent of fields of energy and
magnetic auras, drawings manifest as suggestions of the human
form, otherworldly beings and internal body parts, mapped
against diagrammatic evocations of invisible worlds surrounding
and influencing our existence
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