Professor and Doctoral Supervisor of CAFA, Director of CAFA Art Museum
When I saw her works, I thought of a commonality between Chinese culture and Italian culture. This poetic feeling made me return to a traditional Chinese culture and Western medieval culture. Such thinking on a connection to such a culture.
Although I don’t know much about Mr. Antonio’s paintings, I do see in his paintings, a kind of poetic painting with common characteristics in China, as well as the connection with traditional culture. Although there is a big age gap between them, I think they are all painting with heart. I think Gulistan is very quiet and connotative. I think she has such a deep understanding of Chinese culture, and is able to understand a certain Western culture. This kind of sensitivity in language, whether it brings about the reconstruction of her painting, or the establishment of such a style of her creation, I think it can bring people different feelings. Gulistan I think that although she does not follow certain current trends to cater to this era, her heart has always been able to form the connection between her artist and the audience in this era.
So when we see her paintings, I think the biggest difference is that you can quietly experience the different feelings brought to you during the time of this painting. There is another one that I think has a relationship with Gulistan, because I stayed in Xinjiang for three years, I feel that there is a kind of closeness, which may be based on the communication of her art. Special thanks to Gulistan for the wonderful works brought to us, and thanks to the two artists for such a common presentation and thinking for us.
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Professor and Master Supervisor of Renmin University of China
Like Gulistan, I am an artist, a person who paints. So many years and Gulistan have maintained a parallel space until today we have been painting, so I have a relatively deep understanding of Gulistan, I think she is a rare calm and deep in women. One of the female professors who attracted me with a kind of lonely beauty. Her paintings also have such characteristics. I think the temperature of time is the temperature of such a state between time and space.
I took a closer look at Gulistan’s painting today, and I painted it like a swipe, like I’m going to die. And Gulistan is indeed like what this guy just said, there are more very small, but very distant such an imagination.
Memory of the portrait- Blue II
In her paintings, I felt such a fusion of ancient and modern and Chinese and Western. During such a process, I thought of Italy, the paintings of the Middle Ages, the paintings of the Tang Dynasty, and the current state of Gulistan. , she has the state of a young person, Gulistan’s paintings, I want to praise her a lot, but one of her biggest impressions on me is that her ideas are relatively creative, and she has that kind of whimsy. There are also new breakthroughs in composition, especially her works that seem to be fragile from a woman’s vision, but are actually very permanent, not lacking, and always interested.
Every time I look at it, I always feel that there is a change, and I always feel that I have a very controlled temperature and a voice like that, so I think Gulistan is a very good artist.
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Direttore del Accademia di pittura di Accademia Delle Arti Del Disegno
Nei lavori di Gulistan emerge in primo luogo un forte sentimento del trascorrere del tempo, un Tempo non crudele ma visto come entità generosa, benevola, in grado certo di consumare le cose e le forme ma anche di sedimentare memorie, immagini, tracce che rimangono come sospese a formare un repertorio in equilibrio tra visione e realtà, tra immagine sognata o ricordata.
Il suo richiamare col pensiero e col disegno figure o icone della pittura antica oppure moderna, sia orientale che occidentale, intrecciando i tempi e gli stili con accostamenti o attraversamenti in grado di stimolare anche la mente dello spettatore, caratterizza il linguaggio di questa pittrice dalla forte ed evocatrice sensibilità.
Le sue opere, ordinate in cicli, appaiono caratterizzate da un senso poetico votato alla ricorrente nostalgia per un passato dall’antico splendore, ormai lontano, rievocato attraverso una gamma cromatica lieve e variata, di sapore quasi musicale.
Non a caso ella stessa sostiene come la musica e la poesia siano ingredienti essenziali nel suo operare. Non mi è dato sapere se Gulistan, mentre lavora, ascolti musica, ma mi piace pensarlo, mi piace vederla irrorata della polifonia sublime di Bach – uno dei suoi ascolti prediletti come ella stessa ci dice – stendere contrappunti visivi sulla tela, accostando rivisitazioni lontane che attraversano come ombre o fantasmi la scena, lasciando una flebile sinopia sulla superficie accostata al profumo evocato di fiori fluttuanti nell’aria. Esempio di simili modalità è il dipinto “Everyone has a golden childhood in his heart, which will illuminate our life”.
Former glory IV
Talvolta queste Essenze di memoria fanno affiorare intrecci più complessi di segni che paiono lo stratificarsi di più impronte, una sull’altra, come può fare solo il sedimento del tempo, gli infiniti gesti compiuti, le tante cose viste e vissute e quanto di tutto ciò, nella consunzione e circolarità del tempo che scorre, rimane appunto nella memoria. Emblematici in questo senso il tondo del 2009 “Tales of time I”, e il recente olio su tela “Gaze”(Sguardo) del 2020.
Memory of the portrait -A piece of golden
Vi è una foto che probabilmente risale ad un momento del suo Wondering in Europe, e certamente presa qui in Italia – meta da sempre di quel Grand Tour che portava artisti di tutto il modo a svilupparsi tecnicamente ed emozionalmente nelle nostre terre dense di storia e ricche di bellezze architettoniche e paesaggistiche – in grado, più di altre testimonianze, di chiarire il senso del suo fare pittura. Una immagine, questa, in cui la pittrice sfiora con una mano, quasi una carezza, quel che rimane di un affresco corroso dal tempo su una parete di un edificio antico. In quel gesto di tenerezza affettuosa vi è una chiara dichiarazione di accoglienza di tutto quanto il Tempo ci da e ci toglie, lasciandoci, in questo breve nostro momento vitale, il patrimonio dei ricordi, delle memorie, ma anche segnali e immagini di ciò che è tramandato dalla storia, di ciò che di bello è stato fatto e che in gran parte è ancora tra noi, la vera nostra ricchezza di esseri umani nell’arco breve della nostra esistenza.
Tracce dunque del percorso immaginifico e del pensiero di Gulistan ci appaiono evidenti in alcuni cicli di lavori dai titoli assai suggestivi ed evocativi: The Essence of Time, The Tales abaut Time, Portait in Memory, in cui il tema della rievocazione attraverso tracce volutamente consunte, fragili, come resti archeologici di una vita vissuta in tempi lontani e riaffiorata da una dimensione sospesa e quasi atemporale, ci portano a riflettere su temi da sempre portanti della filosofia umana, del vissuto di ciascuno di noi, del trascorrere rapido delle cose terrene e dell’enorme patrimonio che ci viene dal passato e che purtroppo, talvolta, colpevolmente trascuriamo.
In alcune opere la nostalgia di un tempo antico sospeso tra oriente e occidente assume i connotati della melanconia, come nel lavoro What is dying (quel che sta morendo), in cui pare affiorare una più marcata consapevolezza del logorarsi e corrompersi del mondo che ci circonda, umano e animale, ricordandoci forse la preziosità di equilibri oggi in grave pericolo a causa della voracità dell’uomo, e che viceversa si dovrebbe far di tutto per difendere e mantenere, a far sì che questi valori non divengano in un futuro prossimo solo sbiadite memorie.
Il lavoro di Gulistan, con il suo richiamo al trascorrere dei tempi e al consumarsi delle cose, offre al nostro sguardo la preziosità e l’importanza della vita, il ruolo insostituibile della memoria non rinunciando a stimolare la possibilità di lasciare segni che sopravvivano all’oblio.
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Curator, Professor of Renmin University of China, Doctor of Philosophy
Distant memory is looking for a Muse, mysterious blood is waiting for a legend, ancient art is dreaming of a brilliant time, from the western regions to Italy, from Beijing to Australia, Eastern and Western civilizations meet under her eyes, in her paintings, it is not her intention to describe them, but these beautiful things come to her soul, this artist is Gulistan.
The life of youth has a quaint soul, which comes from Gulistan’s interest in Archaeology and the excavation of ancient memory. The solid of Greece and the elegant of the East are skillfully combined with a sweet dream. The inner fusion of Napoli yellow and van Dyck Brown brings an elegant and charming tone to the picture, which continues the teacher Mr. Shang Yang’s deep style.it makes Gulistan’s paintings having a rare female artist’s deep and quiet, a kind of ancient melancholy.
These colors are the overlapping of multiple memories, the remnant marks of the ancient murals in childhood, the mottled frescoes in Italy, the brilliant fragments of the great classic paintings seen when traveling around the world, the dream of never fading youth, the deep perception of painting materials, of course, the light turning and deep looking back of elegant posture. These are all overprinted by the color of painting, and are obtained the thickness of time and elegant tone, this is the virtual color of jade with a coating.
So fascinated by the exploration of painting language itself, Gulistan’s painting have a time precipitation temperature, such a charming but distant aura.
Posture-Mandarin Duck
In the painting series named ‘Posture’, furniture table combined Chinese and Western classical has become a stage for theatrical props and performance. Gulistan dramatizes the artistic elements of various cultures at will, such as the horse ,flower of Lang Shining(Giuseppe Castiglione), the puppet shadow play or the mandarin duck of lotus. Such a strange juxtaposition has the implication of still life painting, but it also has a kind of unexpected magic. These ancient, modern Chinese and Western cultural elements are cleverly reorganized by Gulistan, reflecting the artist’s inner love Interest and fraternity. This, of course, is also the stage where the freedom of the artist’s individual soul is projected and performed.
The deep respect of ancient civilization, the dream reorganization of art elements make Gulistan a secret messenger of two civilizations, and also makes her an artist of triple time: the distant traces of ancient civilization history, the wonderful combination of different art forms, and the instant memory of personal world travel are all overprinted together in pure painting way, which is elegant and profound, affectionate and mysterious, so the artist can become the Muse’s favorite daughter, so painting can become the doctrine of civilization.
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Professor of Tsinghua University’s School of Architecture
The Memory
Many people will understand art as a way to beautify life, and Gulistan’s art creates new life. Architecture does need light, and it is difficult to feel the charm of architecture in the vast darkness. There is no external light in Gulistan’s work, the light comes from within. Her light source is subjective, the light cast by thought. Gulistan’s works will be like garden architecture, like the garden of human spirit, with the abundance of spiritual life. She is running her own spiritual garden. Each work is like an ever-opening undefeated garden, in which architecture and art reflect the level of civilization.
In my opinion, the poetry in Gulistan’s works is a kind of mercy. Although this mercy is very light, it is very deep. Such a Mercy is a kind of Mercy’s Taoism that everything exists and grows in time, and then disappears in time at the same time. Such a state of mercy is actually a kind of compassionate poetry. Then this is the true origin and deep meaning of art.
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