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Artworks not on offer are in Private, GSY Gallery Collections and Shizico Yi Archive.
5th Movement
Le Bleu
Constable’s Clouds, Van Gogh’s Blue
by Shizico Yi
Trafalgar Square, London,
WC2N 5DN.
If I die and cannot find you,
please come to meet me there.
We once asked each other:
If you could keep one painting from the gallery,
which would it be?
You stood for minutes,
left without an answer.
“Too hard,” you said. “There are too many.”
Mine was easy — in a heartbeat,
Velázquez’s Rokeby Venus.
I would take her, any day.
Like many things in life,
you found it hard to decide --
too many this and too many that.
And like many things in life,
I always want the one thing:
focused, fixated, obsessed.
The year after you were gone,
I knew I had to bring myself to WC2N 5DN.
One of those days after days in bed
when only being there might save me from drowning.
I found stillness in Olafur Eliasson’s yellow room.
I found answers in Constable’s clouds.
I found love in Van Gogh’s blue.
I found you next to my shoulder.
We walked to my Venus.
She is as beautiful and young
as the day I first fell in love with you.
Time does nothing to her --
and yet, you are gone.
Too bad I will never know
which painting you loved the most.
So come here to meet me,
if ever we cannot find each other.
by Shizico Yi
Trafalgar Square, London,
WC2N 5DN.
If I die and cannot find you,
please come to meet me there.
We once asked each other:
If you could keep one painting from the gallery,
which would it be?
You stood for minutes,
left without an answer.
“Too hard,” you said. “There are too many.”
Mine was easy — in a heartbeat,
Velázquez’s Rokeby Venus.
I would take her, any day.
Like many things in life,
you found it hard to decide --
too many this and too many that.
And like many things in life,
I always want the one thing:
focused, fixated, obsessed.
The year after you were gone,
I knew I had to bring myself to WC2N 5DN.
One of those days after days in bed
when only being there might save me from drowning.
I found stillness in Olafur Eliasson’s yellow room.
I found answers in Constable’s clouds.
I found love in Van Gogh’s blue.
I found you next to my shoulder.
We walked to my Venus.
She is as beautiful and young
as the day I first fell in love with you.
Time does nothing to her --
and yet, you are gone.
Too bad I will never know
which painting you loved the most.
So come here to meet me,
if ever we cannot find each other.
Left: Sunset Song with Blue and Green (Private H. Vona Collection, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) ;
Right: Having a Cigarette among Pink and Blue, Pure Gold 18K Leaf, oil on canvas
Right: Having a Cigarette among Pink and Blue, Pure Gold 18K Leaf, oil on canvas
Left: Golden Glow Summer Night;
Right: August Moon ( Private L. S. Cifuentes Collection, Florida, U.S.A.)
Right: August Moon ( Private L. S. Cifuentes Collection, Florida, U.S.A.)
Summer Bloom in the Night Series
( 3 in Private Collections, U.S.A., and 1 in Foster Association, Scotland. )
( 3 in Private Collections, U.S.A., and 1 in Foster Association, Scotland. )
Left to right: Roses, Gladiolus, and hydrangea by the Sea;
Sunset Clouds Diptych;
Landscape Memory 2025,Seascape ,Gold Leaf & Oil on canvas.
Sunset Clouds Diptych;
Landscape Memory 2025,Seascape ,Gold Leaf & Oil on canvas.
-La Fin-
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Le Bleu begins with a journey into memory, colour, and the enduring presence of art. This chapter reflects on the National Gallery as a site of pilgrimage — a place where personal grief meets the unchanging faces of masterpieces.
Through references to Constable, Velázquez, Van Gogh, and Olafur Eliasson, Shizico traces how different shades of blue, yellow, and cloud-light become emotional anchors in the aftermath of loss. Here, blue is not simply a colour of melancholy; it is a connective force. It carries the intimacy of shared questions, the silence of an unanswered choice, and the search for a lost beloved in the presence of timeless works. The art becomes a companion, a witness, and a way back to oneself. Le Bleu invites visitors to consider how museums — and the artworks within them — hold the echoes of our private stories. With this exhibition, Shizu is asking: What remains unchanged when everything else has vanished? what is the lasting legacy of oneself? What is the essence of living? She has built spaces between paintings, memory and love, a space of their quiet dialogue, waiting for us to return. -Grace B. Black, GSY x 1StDibs. 2025 |
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