Exhibitions

EYECANDIES is honored to participate in the ART CENTRAL 2024 Hong Kong and present the group exhibition "A Room of One's Own", which features three female artists who explore intimacy through their works.

"Hello, Qiurui Du" reviews Du Qiurui's creative journey from 2018 to the present, using emotions in life as a clue. In the exhibition, viewers will experience emotional resonance from the works that carry Qiurui's unique perception and understanding of life and social continuity in the past few years.
Taking Telenovela, a Latin American TV drama genre, as a clue, "Romantic Soap Opera" presents Qiurui's fantasies of life in a dramatic form. The vivid interpretations of daily life in the exhibition are like windows into a romantic and twisted world.

EYECANDIES x Kui Yuan Gallery Shanghai is delighted to kick off the new year with solo exhibition Wake of the Wind, featuring artist Yuan Zuo and his collection of paintings, prints, and mix media works.

Just like the wind, which can gently stir movement or whisk us away to unexplored territories, artists of our time face various forces that pull and push them on their artistic journey. Through the practice of abstraction, artists like Yuan can actively engage with this globalized landscape, forging new artistic paths that reflect the intricate complexities and boundless possibilities of our ever-evolving world.

EYECANDIES is delighted to announce our participation in the 11th edition of ART 021 Art Fair this year, presenting a group exhibition “Dear Girls” which features five female artists: Yushi Li, Frida Wannerberger, Yanqi Liang, Juliet Aaltonen, and Eleanor Ai Wang. Five young female artists use their own creative styles to break the traditional male perspective and show what they think in their daily lives from a female perspective.

The curatorial purpose of an immersive viewing experience in red is to recognize the use of red (in fact of any one color) as a vital form of expression. Michel Pastoureau, a renown French scholar of medieval history and symbolism, once said, “a color never stands alone; it only derives its meaning, it only fully ‘functions’ from the social, artistic, or symbolic perspective...Hence, it is impossible to consider it in isolation.” Having that in mind, while the exhibited artists share creative interests in the color red, it is crucial to review each of their unique approaches in reflecting upon various subject matters of universal or contemporary significance, and to see how individual artist is utilizing the color red as both the source of inspiration and a creative element.

JW PROJECTS is pleased to announce the exhibition "Aphrodite's Discourse" on September 16, 2023 (Saturday). Presented in conjunction with the Singapore Gallery Weekend organised by Art Gallery Associations SIngapore(AGAS), this exhibition showcases latest creations by London-based Swedish artist Frida Wannerberger and Shanghai-based Chinese artist Weijue Wang.

The development of any relationship is accompanied by mutual understanding and mutual restraint. The four female artists participating in this exhibition drew inspiration from their own experiences and family memories. They sew, embroider, print, and paint, using canvas as a carrier and creating images full of tension. In a way, making art is both a self-repair process and a prerequisite for maintaining constant movement. Because of the societal expectations and constraints placed on women, needlework used to be an essential part of "housework."

The development of any relationship is accompanied by mutual understanding and mutual restraint. The four female artists

participating in this exhibition drew inspiration from their own experiences and family memories. They sew, embroider, print,

and paint, using canvas as a carrier and creating images full of tension. In a way, making art is both a self-repair process and a

prerequisite for maintaining constant movement. Because of the societal expectations and constraints placed on women,

needlework used to be an essential part of "housework."

“PLAYHOUSE” attempts to participate in and witness the growth of the subjectivity of the artists and the viewers,

transcending the notion of objects within the Doll's House, revealing the childlike innocence and the sincerity of the

"protagonist" inside and outside the painting, sharing the power embedded in the artwork to the “self” and the other.

Da Xiang means the shape of the universe, which cannot be described by what people see by their eyes. Such a greatness is shapeless. Zhen is the truth, and sincerity. And when it comes to the fact, sometime ‘the pure white(bai) is the muddiness’, thus the title in Chinese Da Xiang Zhen Bai. After the past three years of experience, we can understand the existence of ‘Tao’ through ‘examples’. One cannot see the mountains when he is in the mountains. The paintings between the artist and the beholder are just like into-out of the mountains. I would like to travel with you into them, to another time and space, to feel the colors, speed, thickness, space, shape and invisibility, and to leave a piece of imagery and imaginary dimension of each self. Here, everything is just a clue, the answer only exists in your heart.

Instead of being deliberate embellishment, the exquisite brushwork is true expression of the dreamy subconsciousness, not meaningless beauty, but Zhuo Ying’s sentiments brimming in between her brush and canvas, even surpassing the significance of reality. To be more specific, Zhuo Ying’s works display the overlapped forces between consciousness and unconsciousness, but more extensive and profound than reality.

Lin Yusi has a strong professional competence in shuimo (ink wash) art and a rich imagination, which allows the versatile styles and the forms shown in his works, which are always in search of variations in infinite possibilities, with multiple threads coexisting. No matter it is landscape, flowers and birds, or figures, he paints their critical state in the real world, with the freehand, half-freehand, or fine brushworks. Lin’s painting language transcends the a priori traditional realistic norms, representing a new value in contemporary art. His works have both the traditional charm of ink and its texture and a sense of the trends of the time. He is not confined to tradition, as ink and brush are only his painting tools. His creations are rooted in ink and wash and yet transcend it, giving rise to infinite possibilities. His works are not only a perception of current life, but also an inquiry and expression of himself. In those scenes that are vivid, unadorned, curious, or refreshing, we can see the fine lines as the continuum of the traditional shuimo, repeatedly washed, however presented with a new language that is varied, strange but lovely.

Artist Qiurui Du were born in the 90s, growing up with a comic and digital world around him. Coming to 21st centry, he continued the tradition of creating portraiture in art history and painted for people around him. For him, the purpose of painting portraits is not to convey the nobility or power of the privileges, nor to belittle or ridicule the commoner, but to record the youth life of the minority groups around him in a democratic way with his own imagination. His works are the mix of "Ukiyo-e" and "Popism", which record his personal emotions and memories, but also clearly depicts your life and mine.

NYSomeTimes (Qianying Guo), graduated from Tsinghua University with a bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering and Bio-Chemical Engineering, received a full scholarship and became a PhD candidate at Lehigh University in the US. She chose to give up her doctorial degree after 5 years of Nano material research before the PhD defence and went to California College of the Arts (CCA) to explore visual arts. With her scientific research background, NYSomeTimes pays extreme attention to the physical rules in her creation. She builds a visual hirerachy structure with smooth and jumping lines, imagining a rational and romantic physical world on a two-dimensional plane.

Inspired by Shakespeare's comedy of the same name, it aims to create a comic and fantastic scene. The works of the four contemporary artists featured in this exhibition take on the themes of playfulness, desire and fear, respectively, and bring the marvellous forest and dream world into reality.