Zhenhua Li and Walter Yu: Some Peaceful Lights
Aria Art Gallery presents Some Peaceful Lights, a dialogue between Zhenhua Li, a leading figure in the international curatorial scene who is also active as an artist, and Walter Yu, a young chinese artist working across painting, ceramics, and printmaking. The exhibition brings together the eponymous series created jointly by the two artists and a site-specific installation of Yu鈥檚 daily drawings, which introduces the exhibition with an intimate, diaristic tone.
Zhenhua鈥檚 photographs do not simply record light, but transfigure it into a poetic substance, capable of generating a suspended sense of time, evoking silences, and restoring luminous memories. It is precisely this quality of vision that captured the attention of Walter Yu, an artist who has long explored the potential of screen printing and engraving as tools for visual inquiry. From their encounter emerges a body of work in which photographic image and painterly gesture intertwine, finding an unexpected and surprising balance. Alongside this series, Yu鈥檚 installation of daily drawings introduces a complementary dimension, composed of small sketches and drawings that capture fragments of everyday life, welcoming the viewer as an invitation to a form of slow observation, where the delicacy of small life moments intertwines with images capable of taking on universal significance.
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Aria Art Gallery presents Some Peaceful Lights, a dialogue between Zhenhua Li, a leading figure in the international curatorial scene who is also active as an artist, and Walter Yu, a young chinese artist working across painting, ceramics, and printmaking. The exhibition brings together the eponymous series created jointly by the two artists and a site-specific installation of Yu鈥檚 daily drawings, which introduces the exhibition with an intimate, diaristic tone.
Zhenhua鈥檚 photographs do not simply record light, but transfigure it into a poetic substance, capable of generating a suspended sense of time, evoking silences, and restoring luminous memories. It is precisely this quality of vision that captured the attention of Walter Yu, an artist who has long explored the potential of screen printing and engraving as tools for visual inquiry. From their encounter emerges a body of work in which photographic image and painterly gesture intertwine, finding an unexpected and surprising balance. Alongside this series, Yu鈥檚 installation of daily drawings introduces a complementary dimension, composed of small sketches and drawings that capture fragments of everyday life, welcoming the viewer as an invitation to a form of slow observation, where the delicacy of small life moments intertwines with images capable of taking on universal significance.