Text / Zhao Xiaoming
"What
is the three realms?"
Is
the celestial, the boundary of a piece of land, or realm of human existence? Is
depicted in Buddhism of the realm of desire, form realm or formless realm? Or
is the heart of the people, wisdom and the spirit? Is this an issue that
artists need to think about?
Wu
Shaoqing's "three realms”
Wu
Shaoqing combines his religious belief, Chinese traditional aesthetic
consciousness with contemporary art idea and contemporary design beauty,
becomes a new visual memory of Chinese culture.
Wu Shaoqing | Three Realms series 1 | 150 * 150cm |
acrylic on canvas | 2016
Wu
Shaoqing's recent works are collectively referred to as the Three Realms, this
series of works are an expression of desire, form, formless fusion; fusion of
heaven and earth and the realm of human; to some extent, this is also the
integration of astrospace and spiritual space; macro and micro integration.
Wu Shaoqing | Three Realms Series 2 | 70 * 160cm * 3 |
acrylic on canvas | 2016
The
works show the unstable and interdependent all manifestations relationship
between the true and the imaginary in the mysterious cosmic space, and combine
the real world outlook with the universal view of the energy world. For Wu
Shaoqing, all eyes touched and not touched, and relates to the human spirit, he
has a profound understanding, but he thinks it's must be all have a background
and reason of unbelievable and indescribable behind it.
Wu Shaoqing | Three Realms Series 3 | 50 * 160cm * 3 |
acrylic on canvas | 2016
Wu
Shaoqing uses his own language of art, expressed the unbelievable and
indescribable dimensions in the picture, "ethereal Zen Buddhism"
contains in his paintings. Wu Shaoqing's work is not philosophical profundity
and indescribable, is a kind of face, relief, and beyond, is a kind of deep
thinking of the universe and life.
Wu Shaoqing | Three Realms Series 4 | 105 * 150cm * 3|
acrylic on canvas | 2016
Wu
Shaoqing Three Realms series, inspired by the aesthetic consciousness is
concrete, and is contained in the abstract image. The works take mysterious
lines and delicate points as elements, and it passes through the boundaries of
time and space. People from the layers, flow, clear pictures feel the universe
is vast and lofty spirit. He used the empty wonderful fantasy and surging
painting context, through his own unique artistic symbol, showing the vast,
smart dream pictures, trying to reach a clear feeling of spiritual realm, to
build a very rich visual sensory and mental space.
Wu Shaoqing | Three Realms Series 5 | 100 * 150cm |
acrylic on canvas | 2015
The
aura, illusion and deep space in the picture make people calm and relaxed, and
make people's mind and body seem to empty, and the idea seems to connect with
the universe, so that people can purify their mind.
Wu
Shaoqing's works in the past years show his ideological track and humanistic
concern in different periods. From the late 90s to the early twenty-first
Century, his early works focused on magnificence and passion, and had always
impressed people with "vanguard and abstract". Recent works are calm
and heavy, it is not difficult to see that this is a process of precipitation
and transformation of the artist.
Wu Shaoqing | Three Realms Series 6 | 150 * 150cm |
acrylic on canvas | 2015
In
this process he said: "the Three Realms series is a group of my return to
local. I chose a kind of deep understanding, belongs to the Chinese people's
own way of thinking, in the process of continuous creation, constantly trying,
I increasingly understand the ‘Chinese way’ for the importance of contemporary
art". Wu Shaoqing through thirty years of artistic practice and emotion,
idea, spirit of aesthetic experience, the creation of the Three Realms series
of works, aesthetic, ethereal, big hearted, distinctive personality, the works
are very unique and cannot be copied.
Wu Shaoqing | Three Realms Series 7 | 100cm * 120cm *
5 | acrylic on canvas | five paintings | 2015
"The
works of Wu Shaoqing, the real appreciator not only feel the appearance of a
rich space, you can also read "time", that is cannot touch, not the
least trace was found, completely abstract the four dimension of
"time", is the real protagonist in Wu Shaoqing's works. Wu Shaoqing’s
works full of aura, and is constantly changing, long and strong, full of life
force. It provides a new, creative, introspective, introverted and Zen
aesthetic experience for the viewers."