Landscape Series 山水系列
Landscape Series 山水系列
In the paintings of the Chinese artist Hong Wai, the female body and the traditional landscape are simultaneously transformed by the artist’s personal deconstruction. Especially the Feminine Landscape series, there the landscape with mountain and water, the highest spiritual and moral metaphor in Chinese painting, is secretly deconstructed by the artist into the voluptuous female bodies. While the traditional Chinese geomancy sees the energy forces in the chains of mountains as an embodiment of dragon, Hong Wai depicts this cosmic body as an undulating body of femininity, and the plants the most sensuous women’s underwear.
In fact, the etymology of the character "yin", is ideographically combined by "mountain/hill", "now/present" and "cloud", meaning "the mountain with the presence of clouds", opposite to the "yang" (the sunny side of the mountain). From this image, derived the virtu of femininity, which symbolizes the tranquility, delicateness, wateriness, the quality of the transformation into the myriad creatures, thus becoming the core vocabulary of Chinese philosophy in the unity of yin-yang.
Landscape series
Ink and color on silver rice paper, 170X70cm, 2019.
Private Collection, Belgium.
Landscape series in Museu do Orient
HONG Wai solo exhibition
With Museu do Oriente's curators team
2019
Landscape series
Diptyque, ink and colour on silver Xuan paper, 92X92cm and 92X88cm, 2017.
Galerie Kunstbroeders, Netherland.
Landscape series
ink and colour on silver Xuan paper, 92X92cm, 2017
Galerie Hexalerie, Paris
Solo exhibition HONG Wai in Museu do Orient, Lisbon, 2019
Landscape series - Tight
ink and color on silver Xuan paper, 55X90cm
work mounted on silk, HONG Wai, 2015
Muesu do Orient, Lisbon
Landscape series - Tight
ink and color on silver Xuan paper, 55X90cm
work mounted on silk, HONG Wai, 2015.
Landscape series
ink and colour on silver Xuan paper, 33cm diametre, 2022.
Landscape series, diptyque, ink and colour on silver Xuan paper, 33 cm diameter each, with frame 50X50cm, 2022.
Private collection, Paris
Feminine Landscape series, jointed exhibition in Macau Museum of Art, 8th March to 30th April 2018.
''Landscape" series, ink and color on silver Xuan paper, 170X70cm, 2016.
close up of the work
close up of the work
Artist HONG Wai in her art studio, working on Lanscape series
Landscape series joint Exhibitions:
Opening of HONG Wai's joint exhibition in Sotheby's Hong Kong in April 2016
15 Selected women artists from countries and regions along the ancient Silk Road, including KUSAMA YAYOI(Japan) and Joana VASCONCELOS (Porgugal). HONG Wai's latest creation Landscape series and Secret de Boudoir series joined the One Blet One Road Visual Art Exhibition.
15 Selected women artists from countries and regions along the ancient Silk Road, including KUSAMA YAYOI(Japan) and Joana VASCONCELOS (Porgugal). HONG Wai's latest creation Landscape series and Secret de Boudoir series joined the One Blet One Road Visual Art Exhibition.
Art criticism and Media
''HONG Wai uses Chinese ink to draw images of women’s sensual bodies, going against the conventional style of using this artistic medium. Macau-raised artist Hong Wai‘s work can be seen until Saturday, April 16, in the One Belt, One Road exhibition, curated by Pansy Ho, at Sotheby’s Gallery Hong Kong, or, in Macau, at Iao Hin Gallery. (...) Her latest series, Feminine Landscape — which can be seen at the One Belt, One Road exhibition — is slightly different. “I use the body with lingerie to compose a landscape, it becomes more complex,” she describes, adding “it’s a dialogue between the Chinese aesthetic and the lingerie work.” Looking from a distance, it seems like a feminine landscape. ''
-- ''The Pop Ink Artist'' mART Magazine
Faust Magazine, Paris. Januvary 2020
