Gene Gallery will exhibit the solo exhibition “In Sight” by artist Mao Guanshuai on April 17.

Mao’s practice is the art of finding and hiding. Artists have a passion for collecting animal fossils, tens of thousands of years they were buried under the sand at the bottom of the Songhua river in Heilongjiang province, now in the process of sand-excavating mechanical work was not recovered. He loved the lines of these fossil forms, the primitive lines that time had stripped away or hidden. Since 2013, the artist has started to contact wood carving, which he regards as the core medium of his creation. According to his deep feeling of the form, he hides symbolic interpretation in his creation, leaving only a beautiful but comfortable shape.

At the end of 2020, Mao and his friends visited Suzhou gardens, a trip that inspired the new works in the exhibition. Among them, the sense of weight of wood has become a new focus of the artist’s creation, large and thick whole fast wood is used to complete the works of huge volume, they first provide the sensory impact, dozens of sculptures of different sizes, standing or lying, straggled in the four corners of the space, looking inward to the outside, in the individual and group relative, born a certain energy enough to devote attention.