This academic exhibition will carry out a complete inquiry into contemporary art through four facets. First, it will approach the philosophical issues of modernity, beginning with Baudelaire’s duality of modern life between the ephemeral and the eternal to discuss whether or not “nature” can be the medium that links between the limited and the limitless.

Hong Ling has spent over 20 years in Mount Huang, and in his works, we can see the fusion between his rich inner mind and the mysteries of the natural landscape. “First, establish its greatness.” Hong Ling has consciously brought the “spirit” of Shanshui painting into landscape painting. When we look at Hong Ling’s works, we see on one hand what appear to be traditional colored shanshui painting, but they are also richer than traditional art, with the turquoise, sage green, and dark dreen of the image also incorporating the colors of oil painting and interacting with the natural scenery to be formed. On the other hand, his works has enriched the colors of western oil painting, because it looks more natural, infusing his colors with a sense of time, making them more natural and rhythmic.