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Gao Ruyun
February 23, 2012
The winner of the 2011 M50 Creative Awards discusses his winning piece that looks to simplify time and space
- Text by Satellite Voices
Guest Feature by Menmenmen
Gao Ruyun is the Chinese installation artist who won the 2011 M50 Creative Awards - an art competition open nationwide for talented fine art students. His series of winning works entitled "SPACE" explores a concept that is simultaneously simple and complex. What is space? If the space is twisting, can we generate a black hole? Is space living? Is space consciously moving?
Satellite Voice: Can you tell us how you transformed your inspiration to this real installation？
Gao Ruyun: It was all from a simple movement. I thought that my installation should be moveable, I had a rational idea that it would be a linear movement so that I could try to notice something that I never paid attention to before. I evolved this series and it became a collection.
SV: I noticed that your installation requires a good knowledge of technology. Are these works all created by yourself？
Gao Ruyun: Yes, all of the works are done by myself, and the technology is simple. I have a general idea of the technology I want to use and I will ask the technical staff for recommendations. If it was too complex I would have changed by plan.
SV: There's more and more technology going into art, what are your thoughts about this?
Gao Ruyun: I think that technology and skill are both important, the skill of painting is also a technique. Therefore, we should have a macroscopic view on technology. Sometimes people will say that technology hindered the expression of their art. However, I think that different technical details reflect different individual specialties.
SV: Do you think the meaning of art is more important than the visual feeling？
Gao Ruyun: I think the importance is the viewer's feelings.
SV: What inspires you?
Gao Ruyun: I like the sincere artist. And I've been reading a lot of Muxi’s books recently.
SV: Where inspires your ideas in Shanghai？
Gao Ruyun: Anywhere, anytime.
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