November 8th, 2012
For Immediate Release
XIAO GUO HUI
In Search of Lost Time: A Tribute to Marcel Proust
Opening Reception Saturday, November 10th, 2 – 6pm
Exhibition runs until: December 10th, 2012
Christopher Cutts Gallery, 21 Morrow Avenue, Toronto, ON, 416 532 5566
The Christopher Cutts Gallery is pleased to announce its second solo exhibition of work by Xiao Guo Hui, titled In Search of Lost Time: A Tribute to Marcel Proust.
His choice of medium is egg tempera, which references early renaissance Italian painting. Yet they are contemporary works, which though obviously allegorical in narrative content maintain a place in both the past and present epoch.
In this new body of work Xiao extends his narrative journey steeped in a hybridization of classical and contemporary painting. As the title of the exhibition suggests Xiao’s work like that of Marcel Proust draws from his own past. His paintings are allegorical stories of his own life. They approach the task of releasing from the buried world of unconscious memory the ever-living reality, of which habit makes us blind.
