A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains
Currently on display at Axel Vervoordt Gallery in Hong Kong is Mexican artist Bosco Sodi’s work, which is a selection of clay sculptures and paintings using turquoise color inspired by the colors used in Wang Ximeng’s painting, “A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains.” Sodi spent two weeks localizing himself in Hong Kong’s scene to find inspiration for the gallery, capturing the ins and outs of the city as best he could.
Hailing from Oaxaca, Mexico, Sodi features elements of the Earth in creating his masterpieces which are then combined with various organic materials – coconut shells, wood and jacaranda seeds. Perfectly described by Axel Vervoordt Gallery, “Sodi’s works are a nexus of the elemental – in terms of their physical materials and abstract concepts from which they are composed, and the universal forces and natural phenomenon that shape their creation and maturation over time.”
I try to avoid as much reality as possible so that the work is completely spontaneous.
Bosco Sodi
You will notice that Sodi’s paintings aren’t just your typical water, oil or acrylic. He optimizes his work by adding Earth’s fundamental resources to it to create an almost clay-like, clumped up texture plastered over a well-weaved canvas. Bodi keeps his work an open space, leaving it up to the viewer to decipher meaning behind each display. Things can be as abstract or concrete as you make them to be. That is the inimitable power of an art piece, the viewer gets to crack the code of an artist’s point of view.
