Chinese Ink Paintings by Water Poon
June 12 - August 9, 2013
Opening
reception on Wednesday, June
12, 2013,
11:30am-6pm. Artist will
be in attendance as of 3:30pm.
Love of
nature, love of natural surroundings, love of
quietness…
Love of
the simplicity of Chinese water colour paintings,
with an undemanding heart, it seems like the natural
scenery of Guilin, the incessant exchanges between
the deep blue tiles and the white walls, appreciated
by the blazing sun, forming a simple and pristine
beauty of the world, and that is the interchangeable
state of mountains and waters.
– Water Poon
A returning
artist to Art Beatus, we are pleased to present Water Poon’s
latest exhibition, Mountains
and Water, a collection of paintings in
Chinese ink on paper.
As in his last exhibition, Blue and White
at Art Beatus (Hong Kong), that consisted of oil
paintings of lotuses in blue and white, Poon’s latest
collection of work continues his exploration of these
two featured colours as he captures the simple and
pristine beauty of Guilin in his elegant blue and
white landscapes.
According to
the artist, educator and writer Arthur Wesley Dow in
his book, Composition,
he states that:
Painting is
a space art. It is concerned with the breaking up of a
space into parts which vary in shape, depth of tone
and color1…Every work of space art was
regarded as primarily an arrangement, with beauty as
its raison d’ętre.2
There is no
denying the quiet beauty inherent in Poon’s paintings
but what is striking is the awareness of the sense of
space when viewing these pieces. This
heightened awareness of space comes from both the
unusual composition and framing of the images as well
as from the paintings themselves placing the viewer
within the vast and ambiguous landscape of the
paintings. The
elements of the mountains and water as well as the sky
become blurred and abstracted, their boundaries
completely undefined with only the arrangement of the
buildings and the sun as points of reference.
Mountains
and Water opens on
Born in
Mountains and
Water runs from June 12 -
August 9, 2013.
For more information, please
visit our website at www.artbeatus.com
or call the gallery at 1 (604) 688-2633.
1 Arthur
Wesley Dow, Composition (New York: Baker and
Taylor, 1899) 16.
2 Dow 24.
Art Beatus, with a location in Vancouver, Canada and two locations in Hong Kong, showcases international art with a focus on contemporary Chinese art. Art Beatus (Vancouver) is located in the Nelson Square Office Tower at 108 – 808 Nelson Street in Vancouver, BC.
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