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Wang Huangsheng: Lifelines: HONG KONG ARTS CENTRE, 5/F, PAO GALLERIES

Past exhibition
3 - 12 September 2019 Hong Kong
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Wang Huangsheng: Lifelines, HONG KONG ARTS CENTRE, 5/F, PAO GALLERIES

“Lifeline” is a term in English that implies the saving of life when one is in urgent need of help and the connotation of rescue is here intended culturally, as a metaphor for Wang’s lines as cultural thread, just as the trunk of a tree steadily grows upwards, supporting all the branches, his lines form the key element throughout his oeuvre.’ – Katie Hill, Curator

 

 

3812 Gallery Hong Kong is honoured to present a solo exhibition by renowned Chinese artist Wang Huangsheng, marking his debut show in Hong Kong. Entitled Lifelines, the exhibition is on view from 3 to 12 September 2019 in Pao Galleries, 5/F, Hong Kong Arts Centre. As an important member of the art world whose roles have navigated being a museum director (currently as Chief Director of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art Museum and previously as Director of Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum from 2009 to 2017), as well as a founder of large-scale art events such as Guangzhou Triennial and Beijing Photo Biennale, Wang’s artistic practice over the years can indeed be understood as a lifeline. The exhibition is curated by Dr. Katie Hill, Founder and Programme Director of the MA in Modern and Contemporary Asian Art at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London.

 

Katie Hill, the curator, comments: ‘Over the years, in his expansive ink practice, Wang’s pursuit of line has departed from a more classical mode in his earlier works to a more experimental abstraction that take various forms – from dense clusters of curvaceous lines lightly swooping in and out to express a sense of uninterrupted movement in space.’ From brush and ink as the principal medium, to textile, resin, newspaper, barbed wire and installation video, Wang continually expands his visual language. He dips cotton gauze in red and makes rubbings on paper, wraps barbed wire with gauze and squeezes sharp-edged wires through glass tubes which scatter into fragments. His action and works resulting from it respond to social issues such as wars and quasiwars, conflict and quasi-conflict, regional and global, left and right, poverty and disease, economy and crisis, along with the hurt, uneasiness, anxiety, pain and turbulence caused. As Hill says, ‘Indeed, ink is now no longer a medium but an important and complex discourse in art stemming from the expansion of its creative potential, spilling out into film, animation, performance, multi-media and installation.’

 

Calvin Hui, Co-founder and Artistic Director of 3812 Gallery states, ‘The use of lines is one of the major characteristics of traditional Chinese paintings. Wang Huangsheng, born into a family in which his father was a painter and calligrapher of the Literati movement, has received formal training in Chinese painting. He re-interprets lines in a contemporary way, developing an abstract yet strong style with a foothold in tradition. Wang bridges “cultivation” in Chinese traditions and “freedom” in contemporary culture, perfectly in line with 3812’s core values.’

Hui continues: ‘Through this exhibition, we hope to bring audiences into Wang’s art world full of fluid and unrestrained lines.’

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Works
  • Wang Huangsheng 王璜生, The Wall 180520, 2018
    Wang Huangsheng 王璜生, The Wall 180520, 2018
  • Wang Huangsheng 王璜生, The Wall 180518, 2018
    Wang Huangsheng 王璜生, The Wall 180518, 2018
  • Wang Huangsheng 王璜生, Metaphor Vision 2014 《箴象 2014》, 2014
    Wang Huangsheng 王璜生, Metaphor Vision 2014 《箴象 2014》, 2014
  • Wang Huangsheng 王璜生, Tracing Vision 171125 《痕象171125》, 2017
    Wang Huangsheng 王璜生, Tracing Vision 171125 《痕象171125》, 2017
  • Wang Huangsheng 王璜生, Tracing Vision 171122 《痕象171122》, 2017
    Wang Huangsheng 王璜生, Tracing Vision 171122 《痕象171122》, 2017
  • Wang Huangsheng 王璜生, Tracing Vision 171120 《痕象171120》, 2017
    Wang Huangsheng 王璜生, Tracing Vision 171120 《痕象171120》, 2017
  • Wang Huangsheng 王璜生, Tracing Vision 171026, 2017
    Wang Huangsheng 王璜生, Tracing Vision 171026, 2017
  • Wang Huangsheng 王璜生, Tracing Vision 171020, 2017
    Wang Huangsheng 王璜生, Tracing Vision 171020, 2017
  • Wang Huangsheng 王璜生, Tracing Vision 161015 《痕象 161015》, 2016
    Wang Huangsheng 王璜生, Tracing Vision 161015 《痕象 161015》, 2016
  • Wang Huangsheng 王璜生, Moving Vision 140503 《游‧象 140503》, 2014
    Wang Huangsheng 王璜生, Moving Vision 140503 《游‧象 140503》, 2014
  • Wang Huangsheng 王璜生, Moving Visions 140429, 2014
    Wang Huangsheng 王璜生, Moving Visions 140429, 2014
  • Wang Huangsheng 王璜生, Moving Vision: Neither dying or being 《游象:不生不滅》, 2017
    Wang Huangsheng 王璜生, Moving Vision: Neither dying or being 《游象:不生不滅》, 2017
  • Wang Huangsheng 王璜生, Moving Vision: The Heart Sutra - 2018 New Year 《游象:心經 – 2018元旦》, 2018
    Wang Huangsheng 王璜生, Moving Vision: The Heart Sutra - 2018 New Year 《游象:心經 – 2018元旦》, 2018
  • Wang Huangsheng 王璜生, Moving Vision: Avalokiteśvara 《游象:觀自在》, 2017
    Wang Huangsheng 王璜生, Moving Vision: Avalokiteśvara 《游象:觀自在》, 2017
  • Wang Huangsheng 王璜生, Moving Vision 150408, 2015
    Wang Huangsheng 王璜生, Moving Vision 150408, 2015
  • Wang Huangsheng 王璜生, Daily-Practice, the Prose Poetries 181224 《日課·雜詩 181224》, 2018
    Wang Huangsheng 王璜生, Daily-Practice, the Prose Poetries 181224 《日課·雜詩 181224》, 2018
  • Wang Huangsheng 王璜生, Daily-Practice, the Prose Poetries 181223 《日課·雜詩 181223》, 2018
    Wang Huangsheng 王璜生, Daily-Practice, the Prose Poetries 181223 《日課·雜詩 181223》, 2018
  • Wang Huangsheng 王璜生, Daily-Practice, the Prose Poetries 181222 《日課·雜詩 181222》, 2018
    Wang Huangsheng 王璜生, Daily-Practice, the Prose Poetries 181222 《日課·雜詩 181222》, 2018
  • Wang Huangsheng 王璜生, Daily-Practice, the Prose Poetries 181220 《日課·雜詩 181220》, 2018
    Wang Huangsheng 王璜生, Daily-Practice, the Prose Poetries 181220 《日課·雜詩 181220》, 2018
  • Wang Huangsheng 王璜生, Daily- Practice, the Prose Poetries 181219 《日課·雜詞 181219》, 2018
    Wang Huangsheng 王璜生, Daily- Practice, the Prose Poetries 181219 《日課·雜詞 181219》, 2018
  • Wang Huangsheng 王璜生, Metaphor Vision 181224, 2018
    Wang Huangsheng 王璜生, Metaphor Vision 181224, 2018
  • Wang Huangsheng 王璜生, Tracing Vision 160925 《痕·象 160925》, 2016
    Wang Huangsheng 王璜生, Tracing Vision 160925 《痕·象 160925》, 2016
  • Wang Huangsheng 王璜生, The Wall 20171016, 2017
    Wang Huangsheng 王璜生, The Wall 20171016, 2017
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  • Lifelines

    Lifelines

    Wang Huangsheng 2019 Thread-bound 117 pages
    Publisher: 3812 Gallery
    Dimensions: 255 x 230 mm
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