Created By
Hong Wai
Ink and color on silver Xuan paper on wood
Curator
Artbridger Curator
Hong Wai's "Alternative Landscape Series - Fragrant Mountains" challenges traditional notions of landscape art by seamlessly blending the sacred symbolism of nature with provocative reinterpretations of the human form. Through the artist's skillful deconstruction, viewers are invited to contemplate the intersection of spirituality and sensuality, as mountains and waters give way to voluptuous bodies and intimate undergarments. This series serves as a thought-provoking exploration of cultural identity and the evolving relationship between tradition and modernity in contemporary art.
In the paintings of the Chinese artist Hong Wai, the human body and the traditional landscape are simultaneously transformed by the artist’s personal deconstruction. Especially the Alternative Landscape series, there the landscape with mountain and water, the highest spiritual and moral metaphor in Chinese painting, is secretly deconstructed by the artist into the voluptuous bodies. While the traditional Chinese geomancy sees the energy forces in the chains of mountains as an embodiment of dragon, Hong Wai depicts this cosmic body as an undulating body of femininity, and the most sensuous women’s underwear.
Created By
Hong Wai
Framed
93 x 87 cm | 37 x 34 in
2024
