REGROWTH – Abstract Paintings by Lion Nie

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Lion Nie, “REGROWTH,” 2024

(courtesy of the Gallery)

Opening Reception: September 7th, 2-4pm

Lipont Gallery presents, REGROWTH – Abstract Paintings by Lion Nie. Featuring recent paintings by Surrey-based artist Lion Nie.

Immigrant artists from all over the world bloom in Metro Vancouver. "Art is true temperament," and inevitably, artists reset their creative paradigm and language, projecting and continuing their original creativity, formats and media after they settle down in Vancouver. Canada's unique and diverse artistic wealth continues to write a unique and diverse art history for the Canada’s Pacific Coast.

Artist Lion Nie’s arrival has injected new energy into this development. He made the symbol he used, the Möbiusband, and his original expression more vivid and dramatic, either making it the protagonist that fills the canvas, or using it to define the tone and extension of the meaning of the painting. The Möbiusband often is considered to be the creative source of the infinity symbol "∞." If we walk on it, the journey will go back and forth endlessly and regenerate... infinite territory and unpredictable encounters.

It is not easy to achieve the visual pleasure of abstract works. The artist needs to have a strong sense of colour matching, and be adept even at generating synaesthesia, writing feelings with feelings, such as depicting auditory perception as visual representation, and taste perception as musical notes. Nie’s habit of painting with music, coupled with his keen perception and free and bold brushstrokes, has created a series of paintings that are vigorous, tranquil, profound, or bright, such as the triptych of Lyrical Tones, Blues, and The Smell of Peat in June.

Temporality, stages, cycles, and regeneration also are ubiquitous in Nie’s works. Works such as Beginning of Spring, Awakening from Hibernation, Grain Rain, and Summer Solstice come into view. The Chinese 24 solar terms comprise a system that integrates knowledge of astronomical phenomena, phenology, and seasons; it reflects the changes of seasons and natural laws. Nie uses seemingly disordered brushstrokes and colour blocks to summarize natural objects in the orderly world and establish his own visual kingdom. Regrowth, Unknown Growth, Natural Construction, and Memories in the Valley jump out of the regular world and adopt a painting language that is timeless and not defined by generations, expressing some phenomena and subtle existences in the metaphysical category, and are naturally revealing.

After a transoceanic journey, the artist came to Canada to complete the new paintings Flowing City and Wandering between Cities series. The entire series is set and summarized in Reborn and Symbiotic World.

Please visit https://www.lipontgallery.ca/ for details.

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