Port de Shanghai

In a moment of suspension, a landscape takes shape between dream and reality. This view of the port of Shanghai treats the landscape in a formal interplay that contrasts the natural and the urban. Water and sky merge and blur the horizon, giving the work a hazy, dreamlike quality. A few boat figures and buildings appear in this setting, revealing the horizon and constituting the essential elements of the landscape. Here, the artist restores the landscape to its former glory, retaining an evanescent aesthetic derived from traditional Chinese paintings. Here, he exacerbates the vaporous aspect of forms, verging on abstraction, and thus represents a suspended moment that gives the landscape an expressiveness as gentle as it is poetic.