After "Colors of China", Amalart continues its collaboration with the Basel gallery that had hosted the group exhibition and, a few kilometres across the border, brings to Colmar the solo exhibition of one of the five artists presented in Switzerland: the Chinese painter Liu Yiyuan. From 31 January to 20 February 2017 the Alsatian town, known for its half-timbered houses and the canals of the "Petite Venise", hosts Amalart's first exhibition in France.
Liu Yiyuan was born in Wuhan in 1942 and began painting at seventeen in the tradition of Chinese painting. In 1979 he entered the Hubei Institute of Fine Arts, where he then taught landscape and bird-and-flower painting for many years, and he is a member of the Wuhan Research Institute of Culture and History. For years he has been working on a cycle of "landscapes of the inner image": inks on paper in which the landscape is not described but evoked, through the rhythm of the brush, the layering of black and flashes of colour.
No photographs of the installation of the Colmar exhibition have survived. The images on this page present Liu Yiyuan's work in the years in which Amalart accompanied him in Europe: the large square sheets, where the ink lights up with gold, blue and pink, and the vertical black-and-white scrolls, built as a dense web of marks.
