NI Youyu 倪有鱼
- 韵衡 黄
- Nov 22, 2016
- 2 min read
In the exhibition "An Atlas of Mirrors", this painting is paint by Ni Youyu. He is come from China, his subject matter ranges from the eternal universe and stars to the contemporary mundane world, incorporating his contemplation and thinking about time and space.
"Reconciling apparently contradictory or opposing elements, such as the virtual and the corporeal, the secular and the divine, and the finite and the infinite, Ni presents three works: Invisible Force, Dust (Singapore Galaxy) and Atlas. Invisible Force reproduces part of the sky as photographed by NASA, using almost thirty thousand industrial magnets to represent the invisible gravitational forces between celestial bodies. Dust (Singapore Galaxy) is based on a photograph of the night sky around Singapore. The seemingly random scattering of chalk dust is in fact a precise placement and measuring out of dust in relation to stellar distributions. The Chinese character for “dust” refers both to the socially under-privileged, and the ordinary and the mundane, but here it is transformed into the limitless universe. Atlas makes use of pinball machines, collected by the artist and processed through hand-painting and refitting. The image of the Greek god Atlas bearing the night sky echoes the theme of the Singapore Biennale."
After watching the exhibition, I research about him, he graduated with BFA from Fine Art College of Shanghai University in 2007. Now lives and woks in Shanghai. In guan-dian there has more amazing art work that he have done. This is what guan-dian description his art work, "In creation, Ni Youyu concerned neither macro social theme, nor current ever - changing trend, but only fixed his eyes on the details of the initiative of art. Just like the scholars and painters in late Ming Dynasty, Ni's creation focused on daily concern, exploration of artistic language and speculation on the history of fine art. No matter his paintings or his installations, are all started from explorations on the original nature of materials and the ontology of artistic language, as well as the nature of things which are ordinary and can be easily neglected."
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