Gaze: Invisible Visionaire
Organizers: Tim Yip Studio/ Art & Science Research Center
November 16, 2019- January 5. 2020 at 7F Art Amoy Museum, Paragon Center, Xiamen
"Gaze is the state in which humans see the unknown world. Each movie seems to open the secret of human time refraction, juxtaposing different times and spaces. This was the first impression film made on me."
----- Tim Yip
Tim Yip's film art solo exhibition "Gaze: Invisible Visionaire" was launched at the Art Xiamen Museum. The show focussed on his artistic practice in film, with a wide range of objects on display including costumes, photography, sketches and props, alongside video projection including scenes from "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", "Red Cliff”, and“The Banquet” and Yip’s art films “Kitchen” and “Love Infinity”. In recent years, he has reassessed what film can be, exploring the notion of “Primitive Film". “Gaze: Invisible Visionaire”also presents the development of his film art style spanning a career of more than thirty years, including cooperation with world-renowned directors Ang Lee, John Woo, Chen Kai-ge, Feng Xiao-gang, Tian Zhuang-zhuang, Chen Kuo-fu, and Tsai Ming-liang. Their distinctive cinematic languages have enabled Yip to watch movies from a "multidimensional" perspective, through which he discovered the key to creating his “New Oriental” aesthetics.
