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Lot Essay
Pieces in a museum collection bear all the weight of history, and are intended to last forever; a river, flowing and never returning, carries away thousands of emotional memories, all of which vanish in time's flow. In Museum, Huang Yuxing deftly imparts form and substance to the shapeless, invisible flow of time. Deep in the background, where a museum's impressive form rises still and quiet, time is transformed into the building's unmoving solidity; in the foreground, the swift eddies of the river dissolve into countless whirlpools, as neon lights and urban spaces too are sucked into its temporal flow.
With his nimble, psychedelic and curving lines, Huang Yuxing creates spatial experiences that are complexly interwoven, yet open and unbounded, in a style that as it turns out coincides with that of architect Zaha Hadid. Her rhapsodic lines produce what is known as a "flowing eternity," and the sense of flow and movement is lightly and gracefully fixed within her buildings to be passed on to future generations. The question of "how people place themselves within space" is the ultimate subject explored within Hadid's architecture, while Huang Yuxing's concern has always been the creation of a vantage point in his works that can be distinguished from the "level perspective" view of traditional paintings. He superimposes a small painting over the center of his larger one, an image that floats above the bright intricacy of this special world, stimulating a deeper interplay between the viewer and his illusory landscape. Among these flowing lights and vibrant colors and the wild growth of these neon hues, the eternity of time as presented by Huang Yuxing sometimes congeals and freezes, and sometimes flows freely, as through such contrasts of stillness and movement he builds his fantastical space-time dreamscape.
With his nimble, psychedelic and curving lines, Huang Yuxing creates spatial experiences that are complexly interwoven, yet open and unbounded, in a style that as it turns out coincides with that of architect Zaha Hadid. Her rhapsodic lines produce what is known as a "flowing eternity," and the sense of flow and movement is lightly and gracefully fixed within her buildings to be passed on to future generations. The question of "how people place themselves within space" is the ultimate subject explored within Hadid's architecture, while Huang Yuxing's concern has always been the creation of a vantage point in his works that can be distinguished from the "level perspective" view of traditional paintings. He superimposes a small painting over the center of his larger one, an image that floats above the bright intricacy of this special world, stimulating a deeper interplay between the viewer and his illusory landscape. Among these flowing lights and vibrant colors and the wild growth of these neon hues, the eternity of time as presented by Huang Yuxing sometimes congeals and freezes, and sometimes flows freely, as through such contrasts of stillness and movement he builds his fantastical space-time dreamscape.