Kenro Izu - Lian Xiaoou - Shao Wenhuan - Wu Junyong 井津建郎 - 连小鸥 - 邵文欢 - 吴俊勇 Photography - Moving Image - Painting 摄影 - 影像 - 绘画 2018/11/10 - 2019/05 By appointment only 敬请提前预约 art@hanfeng.com Han Feng Art Space is currently showcasing work by four artists – Kenro Izu, Lian Xiaoou, Shao Wenhuan and Wu Junyong – covering a range of works that include photography, moving image and painting. Each artist featured is a self-contained exhibition, but each collection of artwork echo th

KENRO IZU: FUZHOU - THE SACRED LAND For more than four decades, New York-based Japanese photographer Kenro Izu has travelled the world photographing sacred and spiritual places. His journey began in Egypt and Syria in the 1970s, before turning eastwards to Cambodia, Bhutan, India and China. Introduced to the city by his friend Han Feng, Izu arrived in Fuzhou, Jiangxi province, in 2017: more specifically, the site where the ancient camphor trees and historical houses that now

LIAN XIAOOU: A HORIZON NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT Art in its essence is about time – an attempt to hold back time, to make it stay. And this very endeavour is manifested in Lian Xiaoou’s work, a kind of mystical force. The rocks are enormous; the sand, granular; yet both are suspended in deep silence on the picture plane. The large format photography involved gifts a truthful sense of being ‘there’, inviting eyes that see the work to explore the mysteries inherent, mysteries of the h

SHAO WENHUAN: NON-MOUNTAIN Shao Wenhuan contemplates traditional Chinese culture from an alternative perspective through the long-term series Floating Jade. He takes a section of landscape from a classic ink painting as his source, then digitalises it through 3D imaging to create the landscape we see. Visually, the mountains and rocks have a high degree of fidelity to reality, akin to photography, but the realistic details only exist in the paintings. Instead of drawing from

WU JUNYONG: EAST MOUNTAIN, SOUTH OCEAN The title of this exhibition is taken from Wu Junyong’s latest work, East Mountain, North Country, South Ocean, West Garden. An animation installation, it is the artist’s imagining of the four cardinal directions, with four distinctive sequences of images threading through the entire exhibition space, supported by two animations representative of Wu’s unique aesthetic. Accompanying the moving images, a selection of large-scale paintings