Beijing Platform Culture and Art Development CO., Ltd-Exhibition-Yi Liao: The View From A Hermit

It is a great honor for Platform China Contemporary Art Institute to announce that the solo exhibition of Yi Liao – The View from a Hermit will be grandly staged on January 3, 2021, when over 20 important works created by him in recent years will be put on display.

With the real name of Zhu Ming, Yi Liao has learned and practiced Buddhism and Dhyana ever since he was young. His artistic career commenced from the doctrine of Dhyana, and he created works from books to paintings. Since the end of the last century, he has gained fame for his calligraphy experiment full of modern sense. His paintings have gone mature over time in the past decade, forming a personal style with a strong expressive force.

The View from a Hermit maps out the creation orientation, ways of life and cultural position of the painter. Yi Liao has lived in seclusion on Songshan Mountain for many years. He has reshaped his daily life, reconstructed the relationship between himself and art, and understood the artistic truth through Buddhist perception at the original place of Dhyana. He has persisted in creating works under the theme of spirit animals, and deducted rich features based on the repeated experiments of form, media and skill. His paintings are defined by original gene and civil vitality, broken through the enclosure and limit of traditional aesthetics, and pursued for freedom and ego. Spirit animals in his works are not only self-reflection, but also the metaphor of the world. The strange and different modes are vivid and show mystery and wild leisure.

This exhibition marks the first large solo exhibition of Yi Liao at Platform China. Curated by curator Wang Jiang, the exhibition will last until February 28, 2021.