This monograph was published on the occasion of Yuan Jai's solo exhibition 'Year of Abundance' at the Hanart TZ Gallery in Hong Kong.

'Yuan Jai has a long and deep connection with the Chinese classical tradition of blue-and-green landscape painting; yet through her intuitive, playful reinterpretations of that tradition, she creates uniquely fresh and surprising visions of an alternative ‘natural’ world. Yuan also draws inspiration from folk traditions, in particular Chinese paper-cuts, using their formal elements as a foundation for a creative restructuring in a range of presentations, from collage to painting. In the world of Yuan’s art, there is no distinction between dream and reality; in her vibrant, vividly coloured ink-and- brush paintings we see animals, fairies, and myriad fantastical flowers integrated into a weightless, timeless land of marvels. Yet an important element of Yuan’s stylistic approach is the way she employs the accouterments of realism to conjure the world of her own imagination, an approach that reveals both her conceptual process and her ambition to break new ground in the realm of figurative painting. 
 
Yuan Jai’s ink-and-brush paintings have a beauty all their own, both ornate and refined. She wanders at will through the territory of classical elegance, and weaves her phantasmagorical imagery from threads plucked from the visual history of the ancient and the modern, the Chinese and the Western. Her works are poetic compositions on the theme of the increasingly distant culture of ink painting, revealing a uniquely feminine delicacy and sensibility even as they conjure forth powerfully evocative, fantastical worlds.' - from gallery website.

Includes artist biography.
Alternative title

Yuan jai: feng nian

Access level

Onsite

Location code
MON.YUJ
Language

Chinese - Traditional, 

English

Publication/Creation date

2014

No of pages

76

ISBN / ISSN

9789881620583

No of copies

2

Content type

artist monograph, 

catalogue

Chapter headings

Hanart Idiosynansies / 漢雅偏好 - CHANG Tsongzung Johnson, 張頌仁

Yuan Jai / 袁旃細說袁旃 - YUAN Jai, 袁旃

Yuan Jai: Year of Abundance
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Yuan Jai: Year of Abundance, 袁旃: 豐年