Guo Fengyi first began practicing qigong to alleviate the pain of her illness, and then, as she continued to realize the philosophy of life, many visual visions appeared in front of her eyes, which she had to express with pen and paper in order to regulate the balance between her body and her mind. The themes, ideas and structures of her works are derived from traditional Chinese systems of thought, including the ancient cosmology, the human body's acupuncture point diagrams, legendary prophecies, the Three Emperors, the Hetu Luoshu, imperial burials and divination.
The book, GUO FENYI: COSMIC MERIDIANS, indexes GUO‘s creative journey with keywords such as nomenclature, ambient religion, qigong, internal view-remote view, lines, numbers, and ancient cosmology. The book is divided into left and right volumes containing a total of 70 works from different periods of Guo Fengyi's career. The left volume focuses on Guo's early creations since 1989, in order to explore the motivation behind the beginning of the artist's life experience; the right volume presents representative works at the nodes of Guo's creative history in a warp-folding manner, in order to observe the overall changes in his creations. At the same time, the book includes two research articles by Gong Zhuojun, a professor at the Institute of Art Creation Theory, Tainan National University of the Arts, and Wang Huan, a writer and curator.
The "cosmic meridians" allude to two important paths in Guo's creative work, just as the mind and the universe are often thought to be innately related, with the former revealing human instincts and impulses inwardly, and the latter summarizing the existence and laws of the world outwardly, both of which are related to man's primal quest for knowledge, which is where Guo's life as a creator begins. This is also where Guo Fengyi's life as a creator begins.
Hardcover, 174 x 244 mm, 212 pages
Chinese, English
Limited Edition 1000, 2024
