Curated by the Central Academy of Fine Arts and Suzhou Museum, Wang Huangsheng’s art exhibition “The Garden of Mystery” was curated by Philip Tinari and will be presented at Suzhou Museum from 14 November through to 20 December, 2015. It will be inaugurated on 14 November at 14:00PM.

The exhibition is entitled “The Garden of Mystery”, here it is a metaphor. “Mystery” exists everywhere, the reality is a mystery, the history is a mystery, life is a mystery, the relationship among human beings is a mystery... “mystery” is ubiquitous and it cannot be interpreted and let go; while “the garden” is where the spirit inhabits and the heart flies freely, and also the resting place when feelings and dreams return. This paradoxical relationship in “The Garden of Mystery” constitutes a sense of tension, as well as a metaphor of the history and current situation of survival. Suzhou is a city full of historical remains and stories, it is a huge “garden of mystery” in itself; Suzhou Museum is more like a miniature of “the garden of mystery”: modern international building and contemporary cultural concepts, coexist like a maze.

“The Garden of Mystery” is developed in such a context, the self-inquiry and quest of art are exhibited in the garden of “mystery”. It is divided into three parts: I. Illusion; II. Myth; III. Heaven and Earth. In this exhibition entitled “The Garden of Mystery”, Wang keeps pondering on the conflicting feature between “mystery” and “garden”, in view of the Suzhou Museum, his recent works “Folding Series” and “Narration of Shadow” reconstructed a series of expressions full of paradoxical associations, exploring and exhibiting the intertextual landscapes composed of collage of ancient and modern traces, which reflects his thinking on the historical and contemporary living situation.

Courtesy of the artist and Suzhou Museum, edited by Sue/CAFA ART INFO