For artist, Mansheng Wang, the direct physical process of rubbing and smudging ink and paint delivers a return to once familiar lands. Wang’s monumental painting, Snow Mountain, installed within the Large Gallery, offers a view of distant snow-covered peaks reminiscent of those he encountered on travels in Tibet in the early. Recollecting the Tibetan belief that each mountain is a spirit, Wang divides his gaze between the painted surface recording the accumulated gestures of his hand, and his memory of the sight of natural phenomenon. Transforming the gallery walls with the sheer scale of his painting, Wang invites our entry into a shared vision of untouchable nature, an ideal eclipsed by current implications of the irreversible effects and accelerated momentum of global warming.
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