▲ If you are willing to push open a door, you can see another world
The elevator went up to the 33rd floor and we came to the exhibition "Wang Huangsheng: Weather: A.D. 2022".
In the dimly lit space, a book-style exhibition preface unfolds before your eyes. Read it carefully, with "response" and "expectation", and start to watch the exhibition.
The space extends inward, and the oxygen cylinder spray paintings are lined up, like portraits, like archives, serious, but also very dialogued. Can't help but approach, pieces of rust spots, numbers, gaps are a new discovery. From the physical oxygen cylinders in the 2020 Shanghai "Exhale/Inhale" exhibition, they are enlarged to become a portrait, so that the audience can face to face and communicate with them. It seems to be reinterpreting Wang Huangsheng's creations, responding and redefining.
The crisp sound of iron blocks colliding with each other leads people into the second space. The lights are dimmer than before, coupled with slightly mysterious music, and the oxygen cylinders placed on the surface seem to float in the air at times, sometimes shuttle forward, sometimes clouds and mist, sometimes faintly disappearing. Backlit to see it, mottled, rust makes its shape violent, there is danger; light and shadow are normal, and let it be born with a mission to save life, shining brightly.
It seems that there is a vague thought about life, but there is nowhere to be found. The independent calmness of the third space is just right for sitting alone and meditating. The projected light shoots out overhead, and a dancer searches and dances in the empty space.
In the gray tone, the thinking about "human life and existence" seems to be quietly sprouting.
= About Wang Huangsheng =
Doctor of Fine Arts. Professor of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, doctoral supervisor; chief curator of the Art Museum of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, director of the Research Center of the New Art Museum; expert of the special government allowance of the State Council, deputy director of the Curatorial Committee of the China Artists Association, deputy director of the Art Museum Professional Committee of the China Museum Association, distinguished professor of Heidelberg University in Germany, etc.
From 2000 to 2017, he served as the director of the Guangdong Museum of Art and the director of the CAFA Art Museum.
= About Curator =
Ai Hai, a contemporary artist and curator, has been engaged in contemporary art planning and practice since 2010.
He is currently the co-founder/art director of Guangzhou Contemporary Art Fair, the founder of Wuhan Fashion Trend Art Fair, the director of Big House Contemporary Art Center, the artistic director of Guangzhou 33 Contemporary Art Center, the researcher of the Architecture and Cultural Museum Research Center of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, the distinguished researcher of the New Art Museum Research Center of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, the visiting professor and master tutor of the School of Art of China University of Geosciences, the visiting professor of Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, the distinguished professor of East Asia University in South Korea and the visiting scholar of the University of Bologna in Italy.