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Xie Lei: Fleur de Peau
Fleur de peau is Xie Lei鈥檚 second solo exhibition at the gallery. Though Lei was born in China, he has lived in Europe for long enough to gather inspiration from painters 鈥渨ho clear a space for other elements than their own鈥�, in Foucault鈥檚 words. As the recipient of a mystical attraction to painting in his childhood, he visits this limitless space whose horizon is always expanding. He did not rush headlong into it, however. He fumbled in the dark, and learned. Learned to see. Bit by bit, his eyes adjusted to the dark abyss and learned to distinguish gems and their refractive properties, their invisible power.
In this vast expanse, he found strength, and freed it. There is mise a虁 jour in Lei鈥檚 paintings; birth itself. The paintings come from afar, drawn from the depths of a dream, or perhaps a coma. A slow revelation that bided its time before stepping into the light. The paintings tear apart the fixity of Western rationalism, then revive it with the artist鈥檚 Oriental imagination. They are paintings of dreams.
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Fleur de peau is Xie Lei鈥檚 second solo exhibition at the gallery. Though Lei was born in China, he has lived in Europe for long enough to gather inspiration from painters 鈥渨ho clear a space for other elements than their own鈥�, in Foucault鈥檚 words. As the recipient of a mystical attraction to painting in his childhood, he visits this limitless space whose horizon is always expanding. He did not rush headlong into it, however. He fumbled in the dark, and learned. Learned to see. Bit by bit, his eyes adjusted to the dark abyss and learned to distinguish gems and their refractive properties, their invisible power.
In this vast expanse, he found strength, and freed it. There is mise a虁 jour in Lei鈥檚 paintings; birth itself. The paintings come from afar, drawn from the depths of a dream, or perhaps a coma. A slow revelation that bided its time before stepping into the light. The paintings tear apart the fixity of Western rationalism, then revive it with the artist鈥檚 Oriental imagination. They are paintings of dreams.
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