Zhejiang is a place with glorious tradition of Chinese painting in China, yet, we can always expect to see innovative creative art energy explodes in a place with profound artistic tradition history. The Deputy Director of Zhejiang Art Museum, Sang Huoyao, not only plays a role in culture preservation, but also the creator of art at the same time; using traditional ink and water paint-brush as the medium to express a new language in the art of ink and wash painting. In the beginning of the year of 2011, Sang Huoyao brings his very own Zhejiang scenery to Soka Art Center – Taipei, and astonish the sensory of the fellow audience on Chinese ink and wash painting on Jan. 8, 2011 at 16:00.

Sang’s work transported the water from the major rivers of China, such as Changjiang River, Mudanjiang, Yarlung Zangbo River and Qiantang River, then he painted on the cloth silk with hand-made mineral substance. All materials of his work came from different geography spaces, he wants to express the modern generation’s understanding of nature and space in an even more macroscopic vision. Each area of grays on his work seems to overlap like monochromatic membrane. By deploying space across the paintings Sang marked his gestured and lyrical abstractions.

The cosmic spirit painting of Sang is the conception image art based on the phenomenon of all the macro and micro deduction. While Chinese traditional landscape painting is still playing the part of nourishing for the Chinese ink and wash paintings nowadays, the cosmic spirit of Sang’s painting deconstructs the Chinese landscape, gradually forming his own painting patterns and artistic conception. The main point of “Jingxiang” is the Jing, Jing is the soul of painting, which focus on the subjective and self, including the mood and state; Xiang is the true state of one’s mind, which is more connotative and profound than “Yixiang” (image). Sang started from the realistic painting, but he has stopped painting concrete expression, and he sees himself different from abstractionism as well; he has his own idea: Jingxiang (Cosmic Spirit) Expression, for he will create his own art. Sang started to comb the contemporary ink and wash painting since 2000, and put forward the Jingxiang (Cosmic Spirit) ink and wash painting; it is a new exploration for art after the concrete and image painting. Sang has insisted on this revolutionary road for a decade, the unique “Jing” and “Xiang” of his work will lead the audience to appreciate and admire contemporary ink and wash painting from a different macro and micro fashion.

“There are only eternal feelings, no eternal pattern. To change is the only task for artists,” said Sang. Breaking the artistic conception of traditional Chinese ink and wash painting, the art of Sang is not restricted by color and stroke, and reflected the adage that “Less is more,” which creates the cosmic spirit art of Sang’s own.