Starting from the 1980’s Huang Rui has been producing erotico-abstract shapes using ink on paper: forests of bodies, legs, spots, lines giving a frame for men and women to meet. Hang Rui’s production is a playful one: vaginas become the yin and yang, chopped fruits or opened flowers openly evoke, mountains of breasts and winding roads move and amuse at once.

Throughout his career, Huang Rui painted and drew the women who inspired him with voluptuous curves and delicate lines. With a powerful understanding of colour and bold strokes of strong movements, his recent interpretations of Japanese engravings create diptychs alternating between abstraction and expressionism.

Huang Rui is an aesthete: his art studio, his house, his environment, his food are always tinged with eroticism, smoothness, poetry, with uncluttered lines stamped with sensuality.

Always ahead of his time and longing for a purer form of liberty, Huang Rui ponders over the history of his country, the meaning of words, colour, shapes, China’s transformations, literature, Taoist philosophy. Amongst those, eroticism lets out breaths of joyful air, as women have taken over the works for four decades.

About the artist

Huang Rui (1952) a well-known artist, strongly established on the Chinese art scene, is famous for his avant-garde and cutting edge engagement. In 1979, alongside with other artists, he founded the first Chinese avant-garde movement: Xingxing – the Stars. The Stars opened the way to new artistic reflexions and aesthetic concepts. That day, Huang Rui already started to show the audience his interest for women and sensuality featuring “April 5 1976’: a half naked female character, rising towards heaven like a goddess is at the hearth of the canvas. From his very beginnings up to the present, woman, sensuality, eroticism, body and languor feature among the themes Huang Rui explores and cherishes. Huang Rui’s “oeuvre” is a most multi-faceted one, reflecting over lines, colours, abstraction and materials. His fifteen-year stay in Japan also deeply influenced his perception of space.

About the exhibition

Duration: 14 Sep - 18 Oct 2014

Venue: HDM Gallery

Opening: 13 Sep 2014 Sat 16:00

Tel: 13911651353

Add: 798 Art District, Next to At Café, No. 4 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing

Courtesy of the artist and HDM Gallery.