To mark the 55th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Italy and China, the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea is celebrating the art of Chinese painter Liu Youju with an exhibition curated by Anna Balzani and promoted by the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno in Florence and the Fondazione Spadolini Nuova Antologia.
Liu Youju’s art is rooted in the great Chinese tradition but also draws on Western influences, from Impressionism to Abstract Art. Created with Indian ink and acrylic colors on rice paper and canvas, the thirty-nine works by the Guangzhou-born artist on display in the Sale Aldrovandi of the Gallery take visitors on an introspective journey of consciousness, in which the real world merges with the imaginary. Cosmic spaces, unspoilt natural landscapes, inner worlds and mythological and memory places become one, inhabited by human-like figures and curious animals that seem to urge us to engage in dialogue with them.
Characterised by an explosive chromatic impact and calligraphic gestures that are never random, Liu Youju’s works underlie profound reflections on contemporary society, on the interaction between the “self” and “the other”, between individual consciousness and collective soul. Abstraction and figuration blur their boundaries to restore a unified and circular vision of life, where human beings, who are microcosms in dialogue with the universe, reclaim their relationship with the cosmic order of which they are a manifestation.
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