As If In A Dream

Xu Lei's transition from a dark mirage to a beautiful mirage is a mood of development, the magic of the pen, filled with the atmosphere of dense. Inspired by the debate between Yin and Yang in Chinese traditional culture, he deduced the modern image of opposites and unity of all things with the prototype of "Taiji Diagram". In Rainbow Stone, the solid of the stone, the void of the rainbow, the solid in the void and the empty in the solid form a natural relationship of mutual trust, and then in the form of "gathering" and "dispersing" respectively, the philosophical root of "becoming and living in the bad void" is demonstrated. Mountain mountain takes the counterpoint between the hidden and the present as the contemporary perspective. Its polyphonic structure presents the dialectics of illusion and sense of feeling, and is also full of poetry. And these images for a, can through the wire in the journal like a dream from side to side as a summary, charming life don't surprised, in the calm strain is the doctrine of peace, and ancient and modern, east and west, between virtual and reality, and keep a cultural attitude that is compatible and resilient.

This work is exhibited in "The Revival of Tradition: Another Approach to Contemporary Chinese Art", a group exhibition at the Song Art Museum, from September 25, 2020, to February 2021.