Created By
Wai Hong
Ink and color
Curator
Luke Chapman
Wai Hong's Landscape Series – Where Dragons Lurk is a striking commentary on the fusion of traditional Chinese elements with modern themes, offering a unique perspective that resonates with both cultural heritage and contemporary discourse.
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 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
Wai Hong
Framed
190 x 88 cm | 75 x 35 in
2024
