Sky, mysterious and hallucinatory; city, clean and wide; buildings, magnificent and spectacular; sculptures, solemn and quiet. In such a spiritual kingdom created in a visual way and filled with various idealistic models, living people seem to be illusions like passersby, and only these sublime buildings and sculptures are real and eternal.

　　Most of the artists born in the 1960s have a complex about collectivism and heroism brought by that special period during their growth, admiring the sublime well-being and brightness, pursuing pure and innocent beliefs and dreams. Though sometimes encountering hardships and confusions, and sometimes being compelled to drift with the tide, they are always sentimentally attached to the inexplicable and long-lost spiritual destination in their minds. In the clamorous and practical present times, such a realm is destined to be deserted and lonely.

　　For the last two decades, Tang Hui has been quietly building a Utopia in his mind, mixing the visual forms of ancient Chinese art, western religious art, socialistic realism, internationally popular cartoon, and etc, creating a series of art images traversing time and space in an elegant and romantic way, and integrating east and west, past and future, beliefs and desires into a peculiar whole.

　　This exhibition presents Tang Hui’s recent works, mainly focusing on consideration and designs of commemorative urban building, such as idealistic plaza, assembly hall, tower house, monument, and etc, permeating with his meditation about the special spiritual mood of the elapsed era, and reflecting his boundless solemn nostalgia in retrospect. What’s noteworthy is the strong touch of contemporaneity in his works, which is the appropriately expressed confidence and pride of ancient Chinese civilization in the process of modernization.

　　I wish this special exhibition could enable the present urban people to realize – there is one more possibility about our living environment and living form, a more noble and beautiful possibility.

　　Li Xu

　　Director of the Z-Art Center

　　November 13, 2009

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