The following work was a commission painting for an exhibition in Tsingtao/Qingdao, China in April 2017. I created the canvas painting in Vienna. The painting was printed in big size in China. Infront of the painting I painted two local models.
Exhibitions in China are mostly around lunchtime. This made my work very hard. I was in the gallery at 5:00 am to prepare everything and started painting at 6:00 am. The second difficulty was the language. Only one of them spoke very little English. At the end it was a great experience.
The painting is a cityscape with a few famous places in Qingdao, a city in eastern Shandong Province on the east coast of China.
Since Qingdao was the birthplace of Taoism/Daoism/ the center of the painting is a Tao temple. The word Dao means way/path, therefore the central part is a path through the temple, symbolically a way through many gates and stages of life, personal, emotional and spiritual growth as human nature, beings, cultures, and countries, but also the path of the inner world of our own body as a temple of the human spirit, power, mind, faith and duality. All these elements of human nature cannot be easily grasped, explained or understood, their existence is similar to beauty or art-it is only in the eyes of the beholder.
As a side event to the International Spring Art Salon Exhibition in Qingdao we painted cityscapes at two different locations.
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