Exhibition · 3812 Gallery · London
Celebrating 3812 Gallery's 15th anniversary, "Liu Guofu: Painting of Entropy" travels to London following Liu's milestone presentation at the Rothko Museum in Latvia. Through layered colour and finely woven brushwork, Liu evokes light and qi (the flow of energy), suggesting landscapes where stillness holds movement. His latest work, Fugue, brings musical rhythm to the canvas. In physics, "entropy" describes the movement of energy within a system - the shift from order to disorder, from structure to dispersion. Yet entropy is also transformation - the invisible law governing change and renewal. In Liu's art, entropy becomes a cosmological metaphor: a meditation on how form emerges, dissolves and reconfigures across time. Across the canvas of "Fugue" series conceived for the Rothko Museum exhibition, vast fields of seemingly monochrome colour are, on closer view, composed of thousands of nuanced brushstrokes. Light appears to breathe from within the surface. What seems restrained and tranquil carries a deep internal momentum - an energy flowing in quiet accord with the universe. His paintings embody entropy not as destruction, but as a quiet negotiation between control and release, density and void.