Artesan Gallery + Studio proudly presents States of Consciousness: Early Works of Sun Yu-li, the first part of a series of exhibitions of works by Singaporean artist Sun Yu-li.

Sun Yu-li is best known for his iconic public sculptures throughout Singapore’s landscape but while he is widely recognized as a sculptor, this inaugural exhibition draws special attention to Sun’s drawings and paintings - showcasing his verve and daring with brushwork, form, and colour on canvas, reflecting an artistic philosophy of his profound concepts on existence, being, becoming and reality - his very own ontology as he reveals an entire body of artworks.

Born in Nanjing, China (1948) and educated in Taiwan, architect-turned-artist Sun Yu-li has dedicated much of his early career in relentless pursuit of a “formal language of the metaphysical” which he has coined the “Universal Language”. Sun employs simple characters and symbols in his work to experience an epiphany of the origins of aesthetics and language. Form, meaning and communication touch and synthesize; a thought to be when the task of early consciousness take hold in young children, and drawings become the earliest development of human communication, also regarded as the universal system of primary expression.

Image courtesy of Artesan Gallery + Studio.