A year after the Ho Kan retrospective, the Villa Reale in Monza hosts "Gilding Monologue", a solo exhibition of the Taiwanese painter and sculptor Pahsi Li. Some fifty works, paintings and sculptures from recent years, occupy the rooms of the Piano Nobile, in an exhibition design by the writer and artist Stefano Soddu.
Pahsi Li, born in 1960, works between two traditions. His painting looks to Western abstraction and to the masters of the previous generation, Ho Kan among them, but remains tied to the culture of his origins: porcelain, vases and peonies appear in his compositions, quotations of precious objects from the Chinese tradition immersed in fields of colour. His most recognisable feature is the use of gold, which for the artist is neither decoration nor a symbol of wealth, but a material capable of producing what he calls "reactions to beauty".
As with Ho Kan, Amalart supported the organisers with the communication and promotion of the exhibition in China, giving continuity to work begun the previous year in the same venue.
A year earlier, at the Villa Reale: Ho Kan, Beyond Colors and Shapes →
