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The Hanging Garden Art Exhibition To Show in Town
2012-04-28

The Hanging Garden focuses on artists employing traditional formats and through contemporary landscape art. The works of Yu Peng, Xiang Guohua and Tony Ng illustrate three distinct directions by artists working within the boundaries of contemporary Chinese painting and sculpture.

Yu Peng`s use of calligraphy and ink on rice paper pays homage to his ancient masters while exploring present-day culture. His nature-scapes emphasize a reclusive lifestyle that is both spiritual and satirical, examing the separation between an idealized past of the literati and the materialisic values of modern society.

Contrasting the contemporary images of Yu Peng are the traditional mountain and water works of Xiang Guohua, employing a unique medium to examine the past. The time-consuming process of burning small holes into rice paper and engraving acrylic likens the creative method to that of a Buddihist practitioner, where the actions emphasize the practice more than the end (or work) displayed.

In an era of visual trasformation, landscape art is widely innovative and diverse, at times containing subtle social commentary. In his photography, painting and acrylic sculptures. Tony Ng addresses issues of congestion and pollution caused by landfills and construction sites in Hong Kong.

The Hanging Garden investigates contemporary Chinese landscape art as a means of expressing society via realism, metaphor and abstraction. It is less about the literal reperesentation of scenery and more concentrated on establishing a new vocabulary through long-standing techniques, materials and motifs.

Dates: May 4 - June 30, 2012
Venue: Art Plus Shanghai
Address: 22 Fumin road, House #2 (near Yan`an Road)
Website: www.artplusshanghai.com

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