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DD11, Like a Mysterious Poem's Opening by LIAO Guo He
85 x 126 cm
Oil on canvas

“I’ve been told that most of the big artists, when they are asked questions, they usually just ‘hum hum’ as an answer and that’s it, this way, you have a kind of strange, mysterious feeling. So, I will just simply introduce myself: when I wrote my CV, and said I was born in Calcutta, that was mainly because this word is very funny to read, I was a non-graduate student from a school in California, USA, in Automated Drafting studies, as I think of this specialty now it sounds quite cool, because when I was small, the books I read the most were patterns of my father’s oil engine, it was very well drawn, I liked very much this kind of feeling. I looked for the introduction, the name of the school was quite complicated, Santa Barbara’s California University of Technical Drawing Automated Drafting, it was difficult to remember. Then I was a veterinary in Liu Yang, I did some studies on fireworks, simple fireworks. As they are shot in the sky, it is quite easy to know the color of the light and the shape, for instance purple, or to find out what kind of color would be more difficult. The veterinary job was because my great uncle, my grand-father’s younger brother, was a veterinary, he passed away before I was born, I inherited his set of veterinary tools. He was famous in our hometown, he liked to make friends, he read a lot of books, he could play any kind of music instruments, and design buildings, he even practiced Kungfu, but at the end, he did an acupunture treatment, some of the acupuncture points were pressed and tied, he didn’t stop to lose weight until he died. In fact he was a seduceer and slepts with other’s wifes. In my hometown, he’s a legend, I was fascinated as I heard many people telling all kind of stories about him. Then, my parents didn’t allow me to learn Kungfu at my grand father’s place, they were afraid that I would fought all the time, he taught me the double knife technique and the theory of “climbing walls and leaping onto roofs”, his best skill, which was never passed on, was the “plum-blossom-stake”. He gave me a medecine book about traumatic injuries, in it, there were directions for pregnant woman about how to put a baby in the right position if his head isn’t facing down, there were a lot of pictures, some hand sketches, it was very well drawn. Hum, maybe the fact that I learned painting has something to do with all of that, ah, did I talk too much, to simply describe my experiences: I was born, went to school, was a veterinary, studied fireworks, painted, and worked for the TV a few years.”

(Extract from an interview with Wang Xingwei)


 

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