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PURELAND OF SOUL
The exhibition reveals how ink painting can move beyond traditional figuration, balancing rational structure with poetic emotion. Wu’s works weave calligraphic strokes into painting, creating a free‑spirited aesthetic that feels both rigorous and fluid.
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TEMPUS FUGIT
Chen Xiangbo's 2026 fine-brush paintings show for ringing the year of Pony. Taking “time” as its central concept, featuring works inspired by Chinese twenty‑four solar terms and the twelve zodiac animals—paintings that capture the subtle traces of passing seasons.
REIMAGINING TALES
The title Reimagining Tales is “borrowed” from Lu Xun, who used it to collect eight short stories that reworked traditional myths. Since then, this otherwise ordinary phrase has come to suggest a peculiar tension.
EMPTY
The title Empty derives from the Five Great Elements in Indian philosophy—Wind, Fire, Water, Earth, and Emptiness. Unlike his past works on the Chinese diaspora, Empty stands out with its strikingly abstract style, sharply diverging from Lau’s established realist approach.
Ink Paintings
by Lyu Sheng Chen
Ink walks together with water, integrating or resisting each other all the way. And the traces they left, depict a universe of art.