“Garden of Dreams” was a solo exhibition by Yu Hong in 2016 and one of her largest to date, featuring 19 works in a series of the same name. Shown at the CAFA Art Museum in Beijing, these were large-scale works that incorporated characters, events and landscapes from ancient Chinese fables into a traditional Chinese garden. Hong used her tool of the trade, to connect the stories and does so by including news from recent years, to integrate (and juxtapose) the ancient against the contemporary. This results in the creation of a “Parallel World” – there are strange things in a derelict but oddly vivid colored garden and is a space that contradicts itself by design.
“Dreams in the Garden“ 游园惊梦
Acrylic on canvas
510 x 910 cm
2015
“Sky Gate“ 天门
Acrylic on canvas
200 x 180 cm
2015
“A Rising Gale Sweeps the Clouds across the Sky“ 大风起兮云飞扬
Acrylic on canvas
200 x 260 cm
2015
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