Dellupi Arte is pleased to host from March 30 to May 20, 2022, the first solo exhibition at the gallery by Yanyan Huang(Sichuan, 1988), a young Chinese artist who condenses into a complex mythology geographies, identities, cultural belonging and interdependent relationships linked to her own biography and the natural world.
The exhibition, titled “Silenzio del Tempo”, will open on Wednesday March 30, from 3:00 to 8:00 PM, presenting her recent group of paintings executed in Italy.
Completed in 2020, the artist conceived and painted these large-format canvases while staying in Sicily for some weeks. Inspired by the island of Favignana, and entranced by the stunning natural setting, and by Cala Rossa’s weight of history, the “Silenzio del Tempo” cycle is a narrative unfolding through the sequence of canvases, told with a sensitive, harmonious, visual vocabulary.
The exhibition will include approximately twelve works, together forming a kind of interior landscape of the artist. The weaving music of the lines, together with the use of coloured glazes in clear tones, create airy, floating compositions, alluding to spiritual moods and personal memories.
The calligraphic touch is one of the features most characteristic of Huang's poetics. Calligraphic lines, gestures, scrolls of colour, together form sensual, poetic compositions, evocative of Eastern calligraphy, and of baroque decoration. These characteristics are revealed in the preference for curved lines, spirals and sinuous movements, interwoven motifs blending together.
Colours of the natural world predominate, often suggesting the hues of the maquis, surrounding the artist as she was producing the paintings. The encounter with the Sicilian landscape, discovering the past history of the place, with the cultural exchange and reworking of story and myth, are the spark for Huang’s creative universe.
As its title suggests, “Silenzio del Tempo” is also a reflection on the idea of Time, understood as an entropic succession of moments of existence, caught in the immediacy of the present, and visually constructed through interwoven gestures and lines.
Born in Sichuan (China) in 1988, but growing up in America, Yanyan Huang lives between New York, Los Angeles and Beijing. Always holding the balance between East and West and inspired by classical and ancient sources, Yanyan Huang also works with paper, ceramics, textiles and performance; the countless sources of inspiration for her work are fired by a multi-disciplinary approach expressed in varied ways.
Together with the canvases, the exhibition presents a selection of works on paper, from the “Tempo (Exile)” group, also produced in 2020, demonstrating a freer, more intimate, lyricism and calligraphic style.
On occasion of the show, Dellupi Arte is delighted to present the publication of the first monograph devoted to the artist, which will include all the works of this extraordinary pictorial cycle, together with a text by the critic Nicole Kaack.
