[Our Gallery - Records] "1998" Lee Wai Yin Art Sharing Session

-Artist Lee Wai Yin leads us to slow down and feel the original quietness of life.

On November 1, at 3:30 pm, the song "Heavenly Bath" spread out in the small space of this gallery, and the whole group was in silence. Is it a prayer? Is it a prayer? Is it emptying? Is it just going with the flow? ......

The heavenly bath in silence opened the eighteen-year old wine, and the passion of running to the dream paradise - Tibet in 1995 touched every guest! Even though I emphasized again and again that I don't want my Tibetan style to be magnified, from the Guangzhou TV station's special interview to the 1998 Art Appreciation Meeting, my Tibetan style art works are like a fire that can't be suppressed, burning the enthusiasm of the crowd! In fact, I only hope to make a sound, whether it is to do pure art or to appreciate pure art, it is very easy to do, as long as you slow down your hasty steps and play with the instinct of your senses, you can do it. Playing with art, is not my profession, it's just my way of life.--Fran Lee.

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-Artist Lee Hye-hyun in an interview-

The story of 1998 has to start from 1995, in December 1994 an unintentional chat, but contributed to an action that affected the latter half of his life: 95 Tibet wind - Tibet Miles, when the self-driving car from Guangzhou set off through nine provinces, stepped on the Tibetan plateau, I was stunned by that all over the pure land, everything is clean and pure, I like to shoot the dawn sky, I like to photograph the dawn sky, the prairie under the sun, the golden roof of the Lama Temple, and those simple children ...... Every time I listen to Tengger's "Paradise", I seem to have returned to Tibet.

In 1997 I went abroad, and after a long trip, I decided to put aside my worldly busyness to do something for 1995. That's how I accidentally entered into pure art creation. Artist's art creation is like running water which never returns, this is the reason why artworks are precious, each period of artist's art will have different characteristics of the era due to the environment, situation and emotional state at that time, 1998 is a historic art period for me, and my real meaning of pure art creation started from this year. The first series is the oil painting "Tibetan Wind", I once said, in order to pursue the sunlight to find the pure land once again, so my Tibetan wind works are the relationship between the sunlight and the earth, in order to better express the sunlight, I used the slowest technique of oil painting - point color, because of this slow method, let me once again use the brush and oil to measure the earth of Tibet, and once again feel the sun's sunlight with my soul. It is because of this slow method that I once again measure the Tibetan earth with my brush and oil colors, and once again feel the light of the sun with my soul.

-Artist Chen Ben in an interview-

-David. Artist Lee Hwee Hye Hyun's son in an interview-

1998, for my son David is far away, of course he can't understand those stories that only appear in novels nowadays, but my son grows up in a Catholic family, and has always kept his heart pure. However, my son grew up in a Catholic family, and has been raised in the church since he was a child, so he has always maintained the purity of his soul, and even though he doesn't understand it, he can be infected by the simplicity of the works, and David likes to follow me around to appear in all kinds of occasions, and when I exhibit in art festivals in foreign countries, he comes with me, too. He will quietly observe and feel what is happening around him. At such a young age, he already knows the differences between art exhibitions in foreign countries and those in mainland China, including the works, the artists and the audience, and the way of operation of the artworks. He also knows that to participate in art exhibitions, it is necessary to wear formal attire, which is a sign of respect for art and artists, as this is not necessary to explain in foreign countries.

-Producer: Deng Yongxiong / Artist: Li Huixian / Curator: Ke Wenting / Academic Director: Chen Ben -

About Banna, we have seen oil paintings, watercolors and prints are mostly colorful tropical style, but I like Banna blues moonlit night, quiet, pure and gentle, has always been my favorite architecture, Banna's small building is my heart, and those banana trees, phoenix-tailed trees, ...... graceful, such as the river of the moon is soft and tender, such as a woman to be married! The woman is living in the small building.

The two groups of works, "Tibetan Wind" and "Blues Banna" still have figurative shadows. In the late 1998, the "Spring" human body series began to come out of the figurative, which is the first group of works in which my style of imaginative painting was formed, and "Heavenly Bathing" is the representative work of the "Spring" series, my favorite work. When you listen to Qi Yu's "Sky Bathing", a musical work from the same period in 1998, from hearing to seeing to touching other senses, it will lead the audience into a wonderful mood.

I have loved photography since I was a child, treating my camera as a toy. I love architecture, especially classical architecture. In Tibet, all the buildings seem to hide the imprint of time, that feeling and the architecture of Dongping Dabeng Gallery, when I met the Qing Dynasty towers in this city, the story that has been far away returned to my memory, time is wonderful, she can purify and precipitation; distance is also wonderful, she makes the thoughts become a fairy tale.

The heavenly bath in silence opened the eighteen-year old wine, and the passion of running to the dream paradise - Tibet in 1995 touched every guest! Even though I emphasized again and again that I don't want my Tibetan style to be magnified, from the Guangzhou TV station's special interview to the 1998 Art Appreciation Meeting, my Tibetan style art works are like a fire that can't be suppressed, burning the enthusiasm of the crowd! In fact, I only hope to make a sound, whether it is to do pure art or to appreciate pure art, it is very easy to do, as long as you slow down your hasty steps and play with the instinct of your senses, you can do it. Playing with art, is not my profession, it's just my way of life.

Regarding my art, the direct feeling given to the audience is like the rhythm of free-form poetry. Whether it is painting, photography or poetry, they are all free, simple and pure. Although there are no grand scenes or popular themes, through the rich and subtle light and color, they penetrate people's mind like a mysterious breath from heaven.

Every year in May, I miss the lilacs, and the lazy sunshine, through my fingers sprinkled on my cheeks, I do not know that the garden full of lilacs there is someone to look after? Year after year, 1998, such as the lilacs of the hidden warmth of the noble body, looking past the dream will always be beautiful.