MOCUBE is pleased to announce the opening of the new exhibition, “Huang Zhoutuo- Tangible” on July 15th, and the exhibition will continue to September 3th, 2017.

In a manner of speaking, Huang Zhoutuo has converted the canvas into a solid container to hold all his strokes, both the steerable and the naturally formed, all retained on the tableau.  Following the crossing clues, the painting leaps between objects  and actions,  driven by curiosity and intimately connected  with the artist’s life.  Everything is fluid, including the way he paints.  Pictorial language is formed in repeated coloring and painting, with little to do with the abstract or the concrete, as it is all about traces which need to be steeped in time. Huang only tries to attenuate the conclusive aspect and adds to flexibility. Whether it is a painting that treats the object as human being or vice versa, he is more obsessed with  defamiliarization after the forms are transformed into a painting. The inherent sense of ritual in the mundane world unfolds as the pencraft gets refined and the painting probes deeper.

Sometimes it freezes the moment of an action

But more often

It’s about the tangible world

An outstretched arm and a half stooped person

Close to a deserted flower basket

With the fruit waiting to become marmalade

Like color patches covering the chair

From one  painting

leaping to another

Different forms alternate

Between the visible and the invisible

Be it reality or vision

In the representation

Illusion is hidden

To vest painting

With meaning.

— Huang Zhoutuo, Tangible 2017