Bingyi: Taihang Rhapsody at Asia Society

Honestly, when during the tour we were told that all these works are a conceptual project, a speculative historical reconstruction of paintings by Hua, the fictional Northern Song Matriarch of Painting, an artist-that-could-be created by Bingyi, an artist, art historian, philosopher and modern-day literati, I was fully ready for the reveal that she also is a fictional character.
It’s the scale, the depth and the scope of the project that make it a bit difficult to believe that all of that can be done by one artist. Five chambers of the gallery represent five halls of a Song Dynasty temple site in the Taihang Mountains, and the story behind the “findings” is slowly unfolding as you move through them. From grandiose to intimate, from figurative to abstract, from line-based to flowing — this exhibition has it all.

Exhibition period: 14.01–7.03
Gallery address: Chantal Miller Gallery, 9 Justice Drive, Admiralty