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Shadows of Boulder Hill presents a group of seventeen powerful paintings in oil on linen and a selection of drawings by artist Tang Shuo (b. 1987 in Guangxi, China) that delve into his childhood experiences in rural southern China. This, Tang’s first book, documents the concurrent exhibitions of these works at Fabienne Levy’s galleries in Geneva and Lausanne, Switzerland, in 2023.
Shadows of Boulder Hill marks a significant point in Tang’s career; in 2023 he incorporated narrative threads into his paintings for the first time, depicting young lovers, recluses and wanderers lost in imagined and remembered landscapes of lush vegetation and wildflowers. A selection of the fascinating true stories from Boulder Hill that inform Tang’s practice, personal and collective, are detailed in the gallery notes.
Shadows of Boulder Hill includes a foreword by gallerist Fabienne Levy and an essay by multidisciplinary scholar Dr Matthew Holman. Holman explores the significance of time, place, perspective and memory in Tang’s recent body of work, as he considers the impact of China’s Cultural Revolution on subsequent generations. Tang’s move to the UK in 2020 prompted him to reconsider his past and his identity in a new country. Here, Tang appears as an artist who has found his voice as he eloquently explores scenes of family, friendship, suffering, solitude and survival.
Details
Contemporary Artist Series
Text by Dr Matthew Holman and Fabienne Levy
Design by Agatha Smith
23.5 x 21 cm, portrait
Extent: 108pp
Softback
50 illustrations
Published by Hurtwood Press
Tang Shuo (b. 1987) lives and works in London. He studied installation and material art at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing, China, and after moving to the UK in 2020, he turned solely to painting. In his work, Tang draws on memories of his childhood in rural southern China and he appears as a figure in different roles and guises. Selected exhibitions include Shadows of Boulder Hill (2023), Fabienne Levy Gallery, Lausanne and Geneva, Switzerland; Patterns of Identity (2022), Prior Art Space, Barcelona, Spain; and Sync in Progress (2022), Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China.
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