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  • Guan Ruoyu
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1986 Born in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province

2011 Graduated from Department of sculpture, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts with a bachelor's degree
2017  Graduated from Sculpture Department of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts with a master's degree

Currently works and lives in Guangzhou

 

SOLO EXHIBITION

2016

Monologue - Guan Ruoyu Painting Exhibition, Paris International Art City, France

GROUP EXHIBITION

2018

2018 Art Nova 100, Guardian Art Center, Beijing, China

2017
The Future Has Come - 2017 Annual Tour Exhibition of Xu Qinsong Creative Award, Huizhou Museum, Huizhou, China

Youth Tendency-The Fifth National Biennial Exhibition of Excellent Public Visual Works of College Students, Shanghai Design Center, Shanghai, China

Evidence- the Second Guangdong Contemporary Sculpture Invitational Exhibition, South of the Five Ridges Art Museum, Dongguan, China
2016

Change Qualitatively - LiPao International Sculpture Biennial Awards exhibition Tour, Kaohsiung/Taichung/Taipei
2016 Art Nova 100, Beijing, China
Taiwan International Wood Carving Contest Winners Exhibition, Sanyi Wood Carving Museum, Sanyi
City Reunderstanding - Shenzhen Sculpture Exhibition, the Twelfth Fair, Pingshan Sculpture Creative Park, Shenzhen, China 

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The inspiration of Life Passes like a Dream comes from my thinking of a Chinese calligraphy style—Wild Cursive. The Wild Cursive has stretching and intertwining strokes which keeps changing and flowing freely. The innermost feelings are all injected into writer’s ink and brushes. I attempt to express this feeling through painting, sculpture and art device.

The materials and shapes takes advantages of the combination of wood and branches, whose physical property resemble the strokes of wild cursive calligraphy, expressing a passionate and smooth feeling. The two-dimensional calligraphy aesthetics extends to the three-dimensional sculpts. The stretching and intertwining lines have the same property with wild cursive strokes, conveying the meaning and value of life judging from a non-living perspective.

The work has both hanging pieces and pieces placing on the ground. It endeavors to explore the limitation of the boundary between the sculpture itself and the space. The monotonous black and white colors and the rational expression of extreme make the colorless world flamboyant, conveying the unique emotional state of initiation and reincarnation of life.

Before and after life, there is no so-called glory and downfall. Life means death, and death means life. It is a complete process.

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