From left: Brian Wallace, founder of Red Gate Gallery; art critic Huang Du; artist Guan Wei; HE Scott Dewar, Australian Ambassador to China; Angelique Burguez, Counsellor, Public Affairs and Culture, Australian Embassy in China; curator Xie Tian.
（北京，2026 年 11 月 7 日）红门画廊成立三十五周年重要展览《缝隙流光 —— 关伟个展》正式启幕。展览以 “缝隙中透出光芒” 为贯穿始终的母题，集中呈现澳大利亚籍华裔艺术家关伟植根澳中双重文化语境的思辨性艺术实践，叩问差异、边界、身份与灵感之间错综复杂的关联。
(Beijing, 7 November 2026) Red Gate Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Guan Wei: Light in the Gap, a landmark show marking the gallery’s 35th anniversary. Centered on the enduring motif of “light shining through the gap”, the exhibition features the reflective artistic practice of Chinese-Australian artist Guan Wei, rooted in the dual cultural contexts of Australia and China. It explores the intricate relationships between difference, boundaries, identity and inspiration.
开幕现场嘉宾云集：澳大利亚驻华大使吉思德阁下、澳大利亚驻华大使馆新闻文化参赞包安琪、策展人谢天、艺术评论家黄笃，以及艺术家关伟与红门画廊的众多好友、中外艺术界人士、藏家齐聚798艺术区，共同见证展览揭幕。
The opening drew a distinguished gathering of guests in the 798 Art Zone: HE Scott Dewar, Australian Ambassador to China; Angelique Burguez, Counsellor, Public Affairs and Culture, Australian Embassy in China; curator Xie Tian; art critic Huang Du, alongside many peers, collectors and friends of Guan Wei and Red Gate Gallery, who came together to witness the launch.
HE Scott Dewar, Australian Ambassador to China (far right), speaks at the Guan Wei: Light of Gap opening.
澳大利亚驻华大使吉思德出席开幕现场致辞，并感谢了关伟、布朗和红门画廊。
HE Scott Dewar, Australian Ambassador to China, delivered remarks at the opening, extending his thanks to Guan Wei, Brian Wallace and Red Gate Gallery.
HE Scott Dewar, Australian Ambassador to China, speaks at the Guan Wei: Light of Gap opening.
Ambassador Scott Dewar highlighted the value of cultural exchange in fostering mutual understanding. He praised Red Gate Gallery as a vital bridge for Australia-China cultural engagement, and commended Guan Wei’s distinctive artistic practice and his contributions to Australian contemporary art.
Curator Xie Tian
策展人谢天分享了他十年前在悉尼攻读策展专业时对关伟创作的研究，能够在红门画廊三十五周年、关伟 1996 年首展三十周年之际，担任本次展览的策展人，他表示非常荣幸。他谈到：“《缝隙流光》串联艺术家四十余年的创作脉络，扎根澳中双文化语境；‘缝隙’ 既是灵感生发之地，也是一种持续思辨、追问的方式。缝隙之中透出的，不仅是创作灵光得以显现的条件，是关伟敏锐的洞察力之下，一种持续追问的思考方式。”
Curator Xie Tian shared how he first studied Guan Wei’s works while undertaking postgraduate curatorial training in Sydney a decade ago. He expressed his great honour to curate this exhibition, coinciding with Red Gate Gallery’s 35th anniversary and the 30th anniversary of Guan Wei’s debut solo show at the gallery in 1996. He remarked: “Light in the Gap traces over four decades of the artist’s creative journey, grounded in Australia–China cross-cultural contexts. The ‘gap’ is where inspiration emerges, and also a mode of sustained reflection and inquiry. The light emerging from these gaps is not merely where creative insight surfaces; it embodies Guan Wei’s persistent, questioning vision.”
Art Critic Huang Du
艺术评论家黄笃回忆，1998 年他参与悉尼双年展期间初识关伟的作品。他指出，时空议题是关伟创作的核心，艺术家以图像并置、符号重构的后现代手法，探讨地理边界、历史叙事与文化离散等命题。黄笃认为本次展览是一场浓缩的小型回顾展，新旧作品彼此互文，关伟这一个案，是研究华裔当代艺术家极具价值的样本。
Art critic Huang Du recounted his first encounter with Guan Wei’s art during the Sydney Biennale in 1998. He identified time and space as core themes in Guan Wei’s practice. Using postmodern strategies of image juxtaposition and symbolic reconstruction, the artist interrogates geographic borders, historical narratives and cultural diaspora. Huang Du described this exhibition as a concise retrospective, where new and old works enter into dialogue. He regards Guan Wei as a highly valuable case study for understanding contemporary Chinese diasporic artists.
致辞环节后，吉思德大使和在场嘉宾共同举杯，宣布《缝隙流光 —— 关伟个展》正式开幕。
Following the speeches, Ambassador Dewar and guests raised their glasses to officially open Guan Wei: Light in the Gap.
本次展览作品包含绘画、影像、综合装置等多重媒介和表现形式，创作时间跨度从 1990 年代至今。
The exhibition spans paintings, video and mixed-media installations, with works dating from the 1990s to the present.
20 世纪 90 年代《纸》系列创作，聚焦档案、印章等文书权力对个体的规训，洞察个体在制度夹缝中的处境。
His Paper series from the 1990s examines how bureaucratic power, embedded in archives and official seals, disciplines individuals and captures the predicament of people trapped within institutional frameworks.
1997 年作品《过山车》，以理性设定的生态蜕变，呈现人为编码下生命形态的流转。
Roller Creature (1997) visualises artificially programmed ecological metamorphosis and the transformation of life forms under human coding.
Right 右: Guan Wei 关伟, Reflection No. 3 镜花缘 No. 3, 2016, Acrylic on canvas 布面丙烯, 130 x 50 cm
进入 21 世纪后，绘画作品《镜花缘》以乌托邦式的历史想象，探索个体精神内核与人类永恒命题 “本源与去向”。
Created in the 2000s, Reflection draws on utopian historical imagination to probe humanity’s inner spiritual core and the eternal question of origin and destination.
Guan Wei 关伟, Metamorphosis 变形记, 2020, Video Art 影像作品, Edition of 6, 3 min 42 sec
影像作品《变形记》，以关伟特有的幽默化叙事，演绎移民身份重塑，展现个体在跨文化缝隙里的自我调适。
The video work Metamorphosis employs Guan Wei’s characteristic wry narrative to depict the remaking of migrant identity and the self-adjustment of individuals navigating cross-cultural divides.
其新作《众相合一》与《福》，以碎片化图像矩阵装置，呈现互动与开放式解读，在个体视角下重构符号寓意。
Recent works Unity in All Forms and Blessing take the form of fragmented image-matrix installations. They invite open-ended interpretation and reimagine symbolic meaning from individual perspectives.
装置作品《诞生》中带有裂隙的巨蛋不只是象征着孕育生命，更是观念、思想与艺术的原发之地，呼应本次展览主题，探寻创作哲思的源头。
The installation Birth features a giant cracked egg. More than a symbol of biological gestation, it represents the origin of ideas, thought and art. Resonating with the exhibition title, it investigates the wellspring of creative philosophy.
《缝隙流光 —— 关伟个展》将持续至 2026 年 12 月 6 日。
Guan Wei: Light in the Gap runs until 6 December 2026.
展厅实景 Exhibition View
开幕现场 Opening Review
From left: Brian Wallace, founder of Red Gate Gallery; artist Guan Wei; HE Scott Dewar, Australian Ambassador to China; Angelique Burguez, Counsellor, Public Affairs and Culture, Australian Embassy in China; curator Xie Tian.
Artist Guan Wei (left), HE Scott Dewar, Australian Ambassador to China (right)
Angelique Burguez, Counsellor, Public Affairs and Culture, Australian Embassy in China (left); curator Xie Tian (right)
Art critic Huang Du (left), curator Xie Tian (right)
