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Luo: Compared to the conceptual, you are more interested in aesthetic experience and visual pleasure.
Gao: Right. Last year, a group exhibition I took part in at a Paris gallery included works by Ai Weiwei, Cai Guoqiang, and Sui Jianguo. Cai Guoqiang’s work is different, but the other artists’ works have heavy sociological elements, touching directly on social issues. The Canadian and French curators thought that my Dolls series contained concealed social issues, such as issues about gender status or psychological gender balancing. My artworks actually aren’t so direct. They are more of a psychological response and experience. The other artists might strike at issues more directly, while I propose my individual mental perceptions.
Gao: I think that the perception of artistic form can allow the artwork to speak for itself. Actually, something I have always wanted to do is see if I can fuse the aesthetic experience, conceputality, and sociology so that they speak together.
Luo: Who would you say is a good model for this?
Gao: In Western contemporary art, there is Mimmo Paladino, Enzo Cucchi, Anselm Kiefer, and Luc Tuymans. Their work has achieved an appropriate integration between their experiences of contemporary society, cultural traits, personalized artistic concepts, and artistic language. When there are only “concepts” without visual transformation or highly developed artistic language, then the resulting artworks are mere propaganda posters. If they are just textual concepts, then it is better to let the philosophers and sociologists write them. The artist’s work should employ the appeal of visual language.
Luo: The attitude of your artworks is not so direct, and focuses more on visual perceptions such as aesthetics.
Gao: This is perhaps connected to my experiences learning art. I am obsessed with the ontological aspects of art, for instance artistic form, colors, modeling. Their abstract visual effect can LQÀXHQFHKXPDQSHUFHSWLRQDQGHPRWLRQ2IFRXUVHWKLVKDVEHHQ emphasized in modernist artworks, but I think that this is one of the most alluring aspects of art, something that is close to the power of visual art itself. It is very important to me.
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