By Judita Krivec Dragan, 2014 : When Kublai Khan asked Marco Polo why he told stories about every other place but the one where he was born, the latter replied that every time he described a city, he also said something about Venice. If he actually spoke its name and everything he remembered about it, he could lose Venice and that was what he perhaps feared. “Memory’s images, once they are fixed in words, are erased,” said Polo.
By Nadja Gnamuš : Eastern and western art have always exchanged information and inspired each other. In the 5th century, the Chinese painter and theoretician Xie He 谢赫 defined six fundamental principles of Chinese traditional painting, which have been in use until the modern age. His first and most important principle stresses the importance of internal energy (气), which can help us reach and transfer the spirit of life and an impression of life motion, thus being surprisingly similar to the starting points of European modernism as well as some tendencies in contemporary painting.
By Zhu Qinshen, 2011 : White Box Museum of Arts is proud to held from October 15th to the 25th "May or May not - Wang Huiqin Solo Exhibition". The opening cerimony is on Saturday, October 15th, 2011, from 3 to 4p.m.
By Sarival Sosič (Museum adviser, The City Museum of Ljubljana) : The visual and spatial codes the painter Wang Huiqin brought with her to Slovenia more than twenty-seven years ago were based on the traditional Chinese understanding of art. By leaving her native environment with its overwhelming presence of tradition for another space of different artistic and cultural codes, she was forced to reconsider her artistic approaches, switching to diversity triggered by a new-found penchant for exploration.
By Nadja Gnamuš : Eastern and western art have always exchanged information and inspired each other. In the 5th century, the Chinese painter and theoretician Xie He defined six fundamental principles of Chinese traditional painting, which have been in use until the modern age. His first and most important principle stresses the importance of internal energy (qi), which can help us reach and transfer the spirit of life and an impression of life motion, thus being surprisingly similar to the starting points of European modernism as well as some tendencies in contemporary painting.
By Aleksandra Kostič : Huiqin Wang is a Chinese-Slovenian artist, living and working in Ljubljana for twenty years after finishing her art education in Nanjing. She represents an extremely precious addition to Slovenian multiculturality. She lives the Asian-European experience in her own way, as a sensitive creator, that unites ontological experiences of the Western and the Eastern painting traditions with the intimate experience of a displaced person-woman. In 2005 Slovenian Times chose her for a cultural personality of the year.
By dr. Tomaž Trpič : Whether art is the purest form of culture is a question that could be categorized as the subject of a redundant academic discussion. However, it would be hard to doubt that the art represented by the work of the photographer Tomaž Lunder and the painter Huiqin Wang is steeped in culture. The work is not just the sum of the two cultural backgrounds that the respective artists belong to; what we find here is a tight interlacing of the two. On one side is Slovene culture, on the other Chinese.
By Jani Pirnat : Impalpable is the pierced screen of the cool perforated plate on which shapes of bodies emerge through the proportion between the sizes of the coated and blank areas of the mesh. With respect to the extent of light cast on the plate, a negative or a positive image is formed, while the perforated steel plates have been suffused with a three-dimensional roundness and corporeality by virtue of the artist’s selection of fine art motifs and composition.
By Petra Milič : Energetic, Charming and Powerful are words one could use to describe contemporary Shanghai. With over twenty million people in its extended metropolitan area, Shanghai today is the biggest city in China, in terms of population and one of the largest urban areas in the world. Once a village located by the mouth of Yangtze River, Shanghai was titled ‘the cultural and economic center of East Asia’ for the first half of the twentieth century, and is often seen as the birthplace of everything considered modern in China.