>> 110 x 50 cm, acrylic on canvas

This work is the first creation of series “Painting is painting is painting is painting is?”.

Without using the brush and colour, it employs the canvas – originally the image carrier – as the major material to create pictures. The marks made by movements and actions (for example, incising, unweaving, pasting and overlapping etc.) on the canvas are the components of images. Similarly, painting is no longer confined to a plane surface; the three dimensions and depth of an image are no more an illusion, but substantially occupy the available space. The white image places the work in a state of ambiguity – whether it is a completed painting or a carrier awaiting the adding of lines, forms, and colours. Moreover, the white painting suggests that the work has extended from the scope of the frame to the white space of the exhibition venue, making it part of the work. It seeks to obscure the definition and boundary of artistic creation – painting is a painting, a sculpture, an installation and also an exhibition venue, which all are the art media carrying concepts.

exhibitions:

– 2008   Solo: “Media Discursiveness – Impermanent Intrusion”– Bianca Lei Solo Exhibition, Macau.

– 2008   “Emulation and Truth – A View of Contemporary Art in Macao” — Group Exhibition of Macao Artists in Guangzhou, in Ucity Art Museum of The Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, Mainland China.

– 2008  “Exhibition of Macau Contemporary” , AFA Beijing Contemporary Art Centre, Beijing, Mainland China.

– 2006  “Macau Contemporary Paintings-2006”, Macau Art Museum, Macau.