须弥芥子

这次展览的题目“须弥芥子”，可以追溯到佛教的宇宙观。在那里，神圣的须弥山被认为是所有物质和精神宇宙的中心。把拥有五座山顶的须弥山放进一粒小小的芥菜籽的这个比喻，意味着让众人认识到生活中最微小事物的潜力，即须弥山与芥菜籽这两种极大极小之物在思想上占据着完全相同的空间。展览的第一部分，艺术家通过扫描石头结构和东亚以及希腊神话艺术作品的明信片来创造超现实主义巨幅作品，借此探索微观世界和宏观世界的相互联系。展览的第二部分由雕塑和投影装置组成，探索人类与石头的关系，既作为一种实用材料，也作为一种精神载体。

 a web of myths and microcosms, Gao Yutao’s first solo-exhibition at Migrant Bird Space Berlin revolves around the theme of “stone”: the stone as a prominent subject in Western & East-Asian mythologies, as a medium of spirituality and as an object of artistic merit in and of itself. 

The title of the exhibition, “Mount Meru & Mustard Seed”, goes back to Buddhist cosmology where the sacred Mount Meru is considered to be the center of all physical and spiritual universes. As the metaphor goes, fitting the entire five-peaked Meru into a tiny mustard seed means recogni-sing the potential of even the smallest things in life: both are subjects of thought and as such, they occupy the exact same space in the mind. In the first part of the exhibition, Gao Yutao uses scanned imagery of stone-structures and postcards from artworks on East-Asian & Greek mythology to create surreal large-scale prints which explore the interconnections of micro- and macro-worlds. The second part of the exhibition features installations with sculpture and projection, fathoming the relationship humans have had with stones as a practical material and as subjects of spiritual significance. This is Gao Yutao’s first solo-show in Germany.