Dina Zhang, Head of Modern & Contemporary Art, China, Phillips, said: “Weare honored to collaborate with Huang Yuxing to present his incredible body of work through thisproject, which combines the artist’s creationsas a special plotand interprets the fusion and correlation between ancient and present, Chinese and Western, tradition and contemporaneity,as well ascraftsmanship and art.This exhibition allows viewers tosee Huang’s versatile creative skills, which span a wide range of media and interpret traditional aesthetics with a unique contemporary perspective. We look forward to welcoming collectors who admire Huang Yuxingand art enthusiasts to ourAsia headquarters for this opportunity to experience and celebrate the artist's extraordinary talent and creative practice.”

HuangYuxing, said: “I am a Chinese painter,and I think learning traditional Chinese techniques is compulsory. For me, ‘contemporary’and ‘traditional’are like two intertwinedstrands of DNA, with spirals that connect and conflict with each other. Although they grow in different soils, theyabsorbthe same nutrients. They are two distinct timelines, yet they often overlap and cover each other. By integrating innovative techniques from both East and West to interpret traditional skills, I hope to bring new life to these long-standing artistic traditions.”

Among the exhibition highlights isSeven Treasure Pines Teapot, which presents a fierce collision between traditional techniques such as purple clay and lacquer, and Huang Yuxing’s contemporarylandscapeart, paying homage to tradition. For the first time, Huang collaborated with the purple clay master Mr. Wang Qiang, combining his signature palette of fluorescent colours with two intangible cultural heritages: purpleclay art and lacquer. The overall shape is round at the top and square at the bottom, echoing "the dome-like heaven embraces the vast earth.”The image displayed on the teapot is inspired by the artist’s monumentalSeven Treasure Pines, a seven-panel paintingexecuted in 2016-2019, which presents viewers with a radiant cosmos with a fantastical tableau resplendent in luminous jewelstone.

Seven Treasure Pinescaptures and embodies Huang’s deep fascination for Tibetan Buddhism. Fromleft to right, each panel represents one of the Treasures of Buddhism: coral, agate, pearl, gold, silver, tridacna stone, and azurite, exploring the immensityof the universe. The teapot sculptureis octagonal to showcase the integrity of the painting, and it symbolizes eight planets in the solar system by being dividedinto eight parts. The octagonal bodyof the teapot serves asa window frame of the view, which appears to be an outdoor scenery or an installation. The lidknob and lid are composed to represent "the sun" and "the moon,"resembling the rise and fall of the sun and the moon, echoing the concept of heaven and earth, expressing the vibrant circle of life.The teapot handleis made using the lug technique, enhancing its upward feel. It is embellished with mother-of-pearl inlay, creating a shimmering effect against the lacquer background reminiscent of stars in the night sky.Lacquer is a natural resin extracted from lacquer trees with a long history in Chinese culture as intangible cultural heritage. Crafting exquisite lacquerware involves numerous complex processes; replicating Huang Yuxing’s Seven Treasure Pinesrequires hundredsof layers of colouring techniques. Thepurple clay used to make the sculpture is the dark reddish-purple clay, known as Dicaoqing, which comes from Ding Shu Townshipin Yixing, Jiangsu Province.

A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountainsis a work by the Northern Song dynasty court painter Wang Ximeng, now housed in the Palace Museum in Beijing. The artwork depicts the beautiful mountains and rivers of the Northern Song dynasty and is regarded as a masterpiece in traditional Chinese landscape painting. Highlighted intheexhibition isComposition: A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains 1-6which presents Huang Yuxing's reinterpretation of A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains.He deconstructed the long scroll into six sections, removed the colours typically found in traditional landscape paintings, and presented his magnificent vision of mountains and rivers through pure composition. The six segments display completely different wide-ranging landscapes. At the same time,the use of simple black-and-white tones echoes the traditional Chinese painting concept of "ink dividedinto five categories," reconstructing the artistic conception of rivers and mountains through a visual experience based on black, white, and gray.

Since childhood, Huang Yuxingwas exposed to calligraphy, seal engraving, and traditional Chinese painting. This exhibition also presents a rare collection of ten stamps carved by the artist in the 1990s. This collection includes two seals with names and eight leisure seals. His stamps cover manysubjects, combining adherence to ancient methods with expressions of contemporary styles. The engraving style is inspired by the Eight Masters of Xiling, mainly using the small seal script that originated in the Qin Dynasty while incorporatingboth red and white scripts. Huang Yuxing's seal works integrate calligraphy, painting, and childlike innocence into a unique aesthetic expression that complements each other without imitating ancient artists.

For this project in Hong Kong, Huang Yuxing created Endless miles of mountains and streamswith a total of 66 editions. The composition of the work is based on his painting Nine Dragons. The imagery corresponds to the Northern Song Dynasty artist Fan Kuan's Travelers Among Mountains andStreamscurrentlyheld in the Palace Museum in Taipei. The work adopts the typical panoramic composition of Northern Song landscape painting. Distant mountain peaks stand tall against the sky. In the middle, a prominent pine tree appears as a personified or anthropomorphized element in the artist's brushwork, making the landscape painting livelier and fullerof charm. LikeTravelers Among Mountains andStreams, Endless miles of mountains and streamsfollowsthe classic 2:1 aspect ratio,and it is mounted as a vertical hanging scroll.

In addition to a series of exquisite works that express Huang Yuxing's passion for traditional Chinese landscape andcraftsmanship, this exhibition also offers a work from the artist's well-known Bubbleseries. This series of works joyfully depicts Huang Yuxing's profound reflections on the experiences of time and space through visual metaphors of organic life forms.The Bubbleseries is an unapologetic celebration of Huang Yuxing’s deep reflection on the human experience in time and space. Huang’s artistic practice entails a long-running investigation into the individual’s life experience in parallel to the natural world. Stemming fromreoccurring motifs of rivers and swirls in the artist’s oeuvre, theBubbleseries discusses the topic of dissolution, demonstrating a sense of eternity that underlies the ephemeral existence of bubbles themselves. The human experience is visually represented as bubbles caught in various states of motion, as fleeting and volatile as the temporary existence of an individual’s life.Huang’s signature approach during this period was to superimpose geometric forms delineated in thinly veiled neon colours to create delicate depth and texture, which is well-demonstrated inBubbles.

Works fromthe Bubble series are also a bold practice forthe artist in exploring "perspective" in paintings. After receiving formal training in drawing from professional art institutions, Huang Yuxing presents bubbles on the canvas using the scattered-point perspective method often employed in Chinese landscape paintings. He said, "The ancient Chinese’s understanding of perspective in landscape paintingshas restructured all things and phenomena in the world within the paintings, giving our world a new appearance, which has provided a great deal of inspiration for this series."