M+ Museum Presents Shanshui: Echoes and Signals
Exhibition period: February 2024 – 2026
Galerie du Monde is delighted to share that artist Wesley Tongson’s “Spiritual Mountains 3” (2010) is featured in the exhibition Shanshui: Echoes and Signals at the M+ Museum in Hong Kong.
About the artist Wesley Tongson --
Originally trained in traditional Chinese painting, Wesley Tongson experimented with splashed ink, finger painting, and other techniques that de-emphasise brushwork under the influences of Zen Buddhism and the abstract ink paintings of Liu Kuo-Sung. Although the lines and splotches in this landscape possess the fluency of brushwork, they were in fact applied with fingers, fingernails, and other parts of the hand. Tangson distils mountains, clouds, and waves into their essential forms of pure energy, suggesting an unmediated spiritual communion with nature.
About the exhibition --
Commonly translated as ‘landscape’, shanshui means literally ‘mountain and water’. Encompassing more than observable reality, the term refers to a cultural legacy integral to Chinese philosophical thinking and poetic imagination that has motivated a millennium-long tradition of ink painting across East Asia. Building on this legacy, Shanshui: Echoes and Signals reimagines landscape and our relationship to it through visual art, moving image, sound, and design and architecture. The exhibition explores resonances not only between different genres and mediums but also between space and time, vision and imagination, and fleeting experience and persistent history.
Participating artists (first rotation) --
Guo Hongwei, Kan Tai-keung, Heidi Lau, Ana Mendieta, Wesley Tongson, Wucius Wong, Xu Bing, Yang Jiechang, Zao Wou-Ki, Miyajima Tatsuo, Liu Chuang, Amar Kanwar, Nguyen Trinh Thi, Isamu Noguchi, Vivian Wang
Learn more --
https://www.mplus.org.hk/en/press/shanshui-echoes-and-signals-new-exhibition/
