Plum Blossoms Gallery presents the newest directions of the art practises of husband and wife sculptors Wu Shaoxiang and Jiang Shuo, premiering their most recent sculptures.

About the artists:

Wu Shaoxiang (b. 1957) is well known for his sculptural works in wood, stone, bronze and coins. His focus for the past twenty years has emphasized his concerns about the commodification of art as the speculative market has taken over from passionate connoisseurship diluting artistic outreach and diminishing the communication between artist and audience. While staying within his now distinctive milieu, Wu has recently turned his attention to the environment with his Strolling in Paradise series of recycled paper sculptures that he will introduce in Camouflage.

Jiang Shuo (b. 1958) made her name in the art world with her Red Guards series of sculptures that Plum Blossoms Gallery is proud to have first introduced in 2003. The Red Guards sculpture series created in small to large scales have been widely collected and have found many public space venues for wider audiences to appreciate. Jiang’s Red Guards sculptures are a tongue in cheek review and critique of the same Red Guard fanatics from China’s Cultural Revolution era whose extremism caused so much havoc and destruction. Now 30+ years on, these same zealots enthusiastically embrace the new materialism and search for spirituality that permeates the new China reality.

Image: © Wu Shaoxiang, Plum Blossoms Gallery