Qi Mu Space is pleased to announce the opening of Xiang Ziqi’s “Il paese dove non si muore mai” at 3 pm, Saturday, Oct. 28. The exhibition, the artist’s second solo at the space, will last until Dec. 23.
In her first solo at the space last year, Xiang presented, in “partnership” with “Secret Theater”, her cyber self, art works mainly through three mediums: animations, oil painting, and sketch on paper.
After over a year’s reflection and experiment, the artist will unveil her new series based on the combination of embossment and painting. At the heart of these works, which are inspired by Lopez and Michelangelo, is an integrated realm of space, volume, reality and fantasy. “The alien color on the surface of the embossment”, highlighting the interplay of both pictorial textures and embossment, engages the artist in building visions through craft, material and color.
“Il paese dove non si muore mai”, as title, is from an Italian fairy tale, which tells the story of a young man in search of the land of immortality. The text of the story is itself part of the motive for the aesthetic creation due to its metaphoric treatment of human existence. Human history is indeed the history of our collective curiosity toward the unknown and efforts to explore it, but on the individual level, each acts on their simple, immediate understanding of the moment despite their instinctive skepticism.
