Created By
Hong Wai
Ink and color on Xuan paper on wood
Curator
Artbridger Curator
In Hong Wai's Alternative Landscape Series - Fragrant Mountains, the artist skillfully blurs the boundaries between traditional symbolism and contemporary interpretation. The juxtaposition of the serene landscape with the provocative portrayal of the human form challenges viewers to reconsider established notions of beauty and spirituality. By infusing the natural world with sensuality and femininity, Wai invites us to contemplate the interconnectedness of nature, culture, and identity in a thought-provoking way that pushes the boundaries of traditional Chinese artistry.
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 plants the most sensuous women’s underwear.
Created By
Hong Wai
Framed
88 x 190 cm | 35 x 75 in
2024
