is inherently Taoist or Buddhist, even Confucian.
He does not intend to interfere with the universe, only to experience it. He watches only to capture. He depicts only as an observer, a bystander. He is the eye. One day, I will ask him about his dreams and whether he dreams his work before painting it. In his canvases and works on paper, and even on his transparent sculptures, Gao Xiang seems to have a deep sense of the world, a spiritual sense of the universe. He has the kind of understanding of the world that comes not only from the eyes and the mind but also from a more profound place, fathomless–from the human heart.
Pia Camilla Copper (France) Curator and art critic February 2017, Paris
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