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Today Art Museum is the first private nonprofit museum, located in the Apple residential area， Chaoyang District . I was so happy when told that Tim Yip’s solo exhibition will be open there.
Tim Yip was born in Hong Kong, he is an art director, costume designer and production designer. Since his early work on A Better Tomorrow (1986) with director John Woo, Yip has worked as designer of production and costumes in a handful of feature f

ilms. He was awarded the Oscar for Best Art Direction at the 2000 Academy Awards for his work on Ang Lee’s internationally successful romantic fantasy,Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

The exhibition is a self-cleansing process, especially his sculptures: “Floating Leaf” and “Kui”. Yip has said:”Night is the shadow of day;

wind is the shadow of air; stones are the shadows of mountains; and mountains are also the shadows of stones. And yet dreams are the shadows of waking;dreams are the underlying currents. Ghosts are not the shadows of men, but variations of men. The created are the shadows of the creator.”

the sculpture ” floating leaf”

It is a kind of personification. The leaf wants to run forward, but it is too heavy; it seems vigorous, but it is corrupted

the sculpture “kui”

Kui, Actually, is a one-legged monster from a Chinese bestiary, which presents a fascinating pageant of mythical creatures from a unique and enduring cosmography written in ancient China.It is said that Huangdi the Yellow Emperor, the legendary ancestor of the Han Chinese, made nine drums from Kui’s skin and defeated Chiyou during the battle between the two chieftains around 2,500 BC.