MAO GUANSHUAI

Mao Guanshuai, Born in Ningbo in 1993, now lives in Shanghai. Since 2013, Mao has used wood as his main material for his works. To match the unique and charming texture of wood, and create works that purely reflect the inner beauty of things, Mao has begun to create in a forms that could not be found directly in the real world through daily thinking and perception. His works emphasize individual spiritual expression, and meanwhile express originality and contemporariness.

In the past decade, he has transformed and precipitated the rich stimulation and inspiration of contemporary urban life to young audience into the source of stories to form his woodwork. He pursues art in the naturalist way: using his own hand to craft and polish wood, thus his works wears an artistic and skin-soft texture, which the form re-interprets the works via light. He continues his creation to search the principle of his wood world through rhythmic abstraction. 

Recent exhibition:In Sight (2021) – Gene Gallery, Shanghai；As Time Goes By (2020) – Cang Lang Ting (The Surging Wave Pavilion) & Ke Yuan, Suzhou；Poetry of the Wind (2019) – Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen；The Drawing Hand (2019) – Danysz Gallery, Shanghai.