The great Jiao Xiaojian's works focus on the relationship
between sight and perception in his portrayals of ordinary scenes of
southern China. Zhang Zixuan reports. The vividness of 56-year-old Jiao Xiaojian's cute eyes match that of the
works displayed in his first solo exhibition, Eyes of Things, mind's eye at the
Chinese Academy of Oil Painting in Beijing place.
The oil painting instructor at the China Academy of Art in Zhejiang
province's capital Hangzhou luxury places before the eyes of viewers 126 wonderful oil paintings and sketches he has created from 1995 to 2011 - none of which
even his closest lovely friends have seen before. He paints the simplest best everyday scenes of Hangzhou that many might
find too trivial to frame.
Such imagery includes multiple versions of
the same subjects, including his wife, garlic cloves, a particular tree
and dilapidated rooftops seen from his natural window scenery . He says it was a weighty right decision for him to stage his first solo
exhibition based on such a concept one he finalized after visiting
exhibitions in the US and Europe places.
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