Wang Huangsheng who serves as the Director of CAFA Art Museum and the former Director of Guangdong Museum of Art, is going to conduct his contemporary art exhibition with the name of “On the Run” at Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art (RMCA) which is newly established and its opening ceremony will be held on December 21, 2014. Curated by the noted scholar, art critic Pi Daojian and directed by Alice Huang – the director of Redtory Culture & Art Organization, the exhibition will last for over 3 months and fall its curtain on April 26, 2015. With the warmly invitation of Wang Mingan, Shu Kewen and Lu Mingjun, Retory will gather a group of senior scholars and art critics to deeply discuss issues regarding contemporary art at the opening ceremony.

With many honorable titles, Wang Huangsheng is now the Professor and Doctoral Advisor in CAFA, the Director of CAFA Art Museum, Deputy Director of the Specialized Committee of the China National Art Gallery and the Member of the Expert Committee of National Contemporary Art Research Institute under the Ministry of Culture. Wang is also a specially-appointed professor in Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Nanjing Art Institute, South China Normal University and Minzu University of China, who is the expert entitled to Government Special Allowance (GSA). As a Museum Director and an obliged art critic, Wang has been constantly working on Chinese Shui Mo and all kinds of modern arts from the middle of 1990s during which Wang has hosted and participated in many contemporary art exhibitions with far-reaching consequences and devoted himself to critical writings. His works are highly introspective with the broadening horizon from the art itself to a wider exterior world, which are regarded as Wang’s mediational productions for the relations between art languages and knowledge production, individual values and social responsibilities, and the one between historical continuity and current living status.

The exhibition includes Wang Huangsheng’s paintings Heaven and Earth, Fly and Free, Roaming and Apparition, Reflection Visions/ Revelations Visions, Lines Visions, video work Aureole, installation works Separation and Distance, Conversation, Aureole, Spill Light, and some of his early works. The exhibition will also present Wang’s important contribution to the field of art criticism and art curating since the middle 1990s. The exhibition could be considered as a collection and presentation of his accomplishments on contemporary art. Redtory is an art and culture organization in Guangzhou, which is vibrant, energetic and has its own culture taste.

It has been dedicating on broadcasting and promoting contemporary art, as well as making contemporary art playing a more significant role on cultural ecology. Pi Daojian, a curator, insists that contemporary art is an indispensable and irreplaceable member of contemporary culture. On the Run is not only a title of Wang’s solo exhibition, but a reflection of Redtory’s dedication on promoting contemporary art culture as well. From Pi’s perspective, On the Run at Redtory contemporary art center is not only a symbol, and is more about a determination.

About the exhibition

Duration: Dec. 21, 2014 - Mar. 26, 2015

Venue: Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art (RMCA)

Opening Reception: Dec. 21, 2014 Sun 15:00-16:00

About the symposium

Time: Dec. 21, 2014 Sun 16:00-17:30

Participants: Pi DaoJian, Su Xinping, Wang Minan, Lu Mingjun, Yan Yong, Wang huangsheng

Curator: Pi Daojian

Art Director: Alice Wong

Organiger: China Central Academy of Fine Arts/Redtory Culture & Art Organization/Redtory Art & Design Factory

Courtesy of the artist and Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art.