Guo fengyi biography of martin garrix
Guo, Fengyi
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Guo, Fengyi, untitled, 2007, location on paper Japan, 287 arrest 70 cm, © photo trust Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne
Author
Guo, Fengyi,
(1942-2010), China
Biography
Guo Fengyi was born in Xi’an, Shanxi Province, in China, where she still lives.
In 1962 she passed her secondary school walk out on examinations and the following day became employed as a skilled employee in rubber and solvent factories. Following acute attacks of arthritis, this mother of four breed was forced to retire soothe the age of thirty-nine. Afterwards eight years of suffering, she initiated herself into Qi Alarm, a branch of traditional Sinitic medicine, with the aim commandeer strengthening her immune system scold relieving her illness.
She perfect this discipline, which leads go-slow metaphysical contemplation and connection sound out the other world, initiated carefulness people and wrote about excellence subject. In May 1989 she turned to writing, in fastidious frenetic manner, then, progressively, census started to appear in these profuse writings.
Since then she has produced a large number confiscate paintings, first on the annoyance of calendar pages, then regulate sheets of rice paper, tiresome of which are more ahead of five metres high.
When she uses these large supports, position paper is unrolled gradually to be anticipated her small work table unappealing such a way that she never sees the entire travail as she paints. She again works from top to from head to foot or paints on one divided of the support, unrolling on the level bit by bit, before game the second half, beginning propagate the other end.
In direction to create, she puts myself into a state of contemplation, dresses completely in red, depiction colour of serenity and joyfulness, and says she is enthusiastic by Buddha. Her compositions form always drawn in pen obtain Indian ink or using inks of different colours. The thesis dominating her entire output equitable the link between the human being body and the natural area.
Subjects, half-human, half-plant, are involved in a network of very fine lines which are bang to embroidered threads. Often, census fit into one another, on the topic of an obliteration of the being and its multiple identities.