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Lot Essay
As a contemporary artist, Hang Chunhui champions rigorous craftsmanship and meticulous work-process. Highlighting the concept of airy elegance from the point of view of Chinese aesthetic and the western concept of Humanism in Baroque, he tirelessly experiments with the paper medium as a source of creative expressions.
Presented from the perspective of a theater stage, the work The Afternoon (Lot 50) evokes the feeling of a scene from a certain play. Frozen in time and space by the artist, the picture is flooded by an intense ray of backlight through the curtains and onto the viewer as if it is a retractable time tunnel. An imaginary space is implied by the tension between the red areas and white spaces, and it is further reinforced by the deliberate placement of the objects. The red further emphasise the feeling of desertedness in the atmosphere.
Chairs are often associated with power and institutions by viewers collectively - they are full of ideological implications. At the same time, the impossible placement of the decoration along the table puts an abrupt stop tothe imagination. Between the imagined and the concrete, affirmation and refutation, the artist compels the viewer to successively construct and deconstruct their interpretations.
Born in 1976, Dangtu, Anhui Province, China. Hang Chunhui studied at The Central Academy of Fine Arts and received his BFA in 2005 and PhD in 2011. Hang Chunhui is a new generation of Gongbi artist. Hang has participated in numerous group exhibitions include: Illusion vs Truth - New Trends of Contemporary Gongbi Paintings, Beijing Fine Art Academy Art Museum, Beijing, China (2008) ; Miniature and Delicacy - National Small-sized Gongbi Paintings Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China ]2009^; Eternity: An Ode to Chinese Art , Xiangshan Art Gallery, Shanghai, China ]2010^; Academic Painting - The First Academic Exhibition of well-known Artists of Chinese Gongbi Art painting, Art Gallery of China National Academy of Painting, Beijing, China ]2011^; Neo-M?r?ism, Tokyo Gallery, BeijingAChina ]2013^; Philosophical Interpretations of Painting-The Exhibition of Contemporary Gongbi Painting, National Art Museum of China, Beijing ]2013^. Hang Chunhui currently lives in Beijing.
Presented from the perspective of a theater stage, the work The Afternoon (Lot 50) evokes the feeling of a scene from a certain play. Frozen in time and space by the artist, the picture is flooded by an intense ray of backlight through the curtains and onto the viewer as if it is a retractable time tunnel. An imaginary space is implied by the tension between the red areas and white spaces, and it is further reinforced by the deliberate placement of the objects. The red further emphasise the feeling of desertedness in the atmosphere.
Chairs are often associated with power and institutions by viewers collectively - they are full of ideological implications. At the same time, the impossible placement of the decoration along the table puts an abrupt stop tothe imagination. Between the imagined and the concrete, affirmation and refutation, the artist compels the viewer to successively construct and deconstruct their interpretations.
Born in 1976, Dangtu, Anhui Province, China. Hang Chunhui studied at The Central Academy of Fine Arts and received his BFA in 2005 and PhD in 2011. Hang Chunhui is a new generation of Gongbi artist. Hang has participated in numerous group exhibitions include: Illusion vs Truth - New Trends of Contemporary Gongbi Paintings, Beijing Fine Art Academy Art Museum, Beijing, China (2008) ; Miniature and Delicacy - National Small-sized Gongbi Paintings Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China ]2009^; Eternity: An Ode to Chinese Art , Xiangshan Art Gallery, Shanghai, China ]2010^; Academic Painting - The First Academic Exhibition of well-known Artists of Chinese Gongbi Art painting, Art Gallery of China National Academy of Painting, Beijing, China ]2011^; Neo-M?r?ism, Tokyo Gallery, BeijingAChina ]2013^; Philosophical Interpretations of Painting-The Exhibition of Contemporary Gongbi Painting, National Art Museum of China, Beijing ]2013^. Hang Chunhui currently lives in Beijing.