Wang’s photographs plunge the viewers into scenic views of crab like pine trees and sea of clouds swirling around mountain peaks. “I’ve never been to Huangshan,” explained the photographer and curator Rong Rong, “but the first time I saw Wang Wusheng’s work, I was drawn in by his imagery – his skill of portraying Huangshan in photographs. It is not easy to use photography to express a place made famous by its association with traditional landscape painting.” Mount Huang has indeed been a recurrent subject matter in Chinese pictorial tradition for centuries, and Wang’s photographs connect with this long lineage.
Wang Wusheng 汪芜生 was born in 1945 in the city of Wuhu in Anhui Province and was graduated from Anhui University’s School of Physics. He left his hometown to study in Japan in 1984 and since then he has been living between Tokyo and Shanghai. His photographs are collected in numerous public and private institutions, including the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection in Berlin and the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna amongst others.
