Nurturing flow
Rivers and the lives depending on it have been recurring motifs in the artworks of Wang Huangsheng who grew up in a riverside city in South China's Guangdong province. As a child, he was encouraged by his father to draw people who lived along the river and the creatures in the water. Wang learned to appreciate the vibrancy of nature and ancient people's takes on life in the classic mountain-and-water paintings. Wang's solo exhibition at He Xiangning Art Museum in Shenzhen, titled Remoteness and River, revolves around his intimate experiences with rivers and how they form an imagery bridge between the past and present in his work. He depicts the body of water as a physical being and shows the variety of social systems booming along a river. Also, he has turned river into a metaphor of the progress of history and life to express a humanistic concern. The exhibition runs until Nov 26.
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