Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing - Qiu Shihua - 20.5 > 6.8, 2017

Qiu Shihua

Galerie Urs Meile

D10, 798 East Street, 798 Art District No. 2 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District 100015 Beijing, China

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20.5 > 6.8, 2017

untitled, 2011, oil on canvas,
150 x 286 cm

untitled, 2011 oil on canvas
147.5 ! 153.5 cm

Qiu Shihua, untitled, 2011 oil on canvas
150 ! 286 cm

Qiu Shihua, untitled, 2013 oil on canvas
127 ! 240 cm

Galerie Urs Meile Beijing is delighted to announce the opening of the new exhibition space in the 798 Art District in Beijing with an inaugural exhibition by Qiu Shihua (*1940 in Sichuan). The former warehouse has been completely renovated under the directions of Japanese architect Mitsunori Sano. The 520-square-meter floor plan now contains generous-sized exhibition and reception areas, offices, and storage rooms.
Established contemporary art terms don’t help to describe what a viewer experiences in front of Qiu Shihua’s paintings. Oft-quoted modes of perception, ideas of space, landscape, or painting itself are not of concern to the artist. You have to deploy a spiritual vocabulary to find words for Qiu Shihua’s art: as a viewer, it is best to let associations come and go, similar to the way that thoughts appear and disappear during meditation, and to give up on reason, will, and intention in favor of an intuitive, acquiescent perception. Visualization and imagination are also helpful concepts for approaching Qiu Shihua’s works.