Osage Soho presents selected artworks from two Chinese contemporary artists: Liu Liyun and Miao
Xiaochun.

Inspired by ancient Chinese landscape painting, Liu Liyun has developed the installation entitled,
Landscape Scroll, featuring more than twenty hand-sewn silk sculptures that appear to be suspended in mid-air. Fascinated with the landscapes created by the masters of Chinese painting, Liu re-renders the landscape with a silky and feminine touch to create her ethereal 3D mindscape.
Miao Xiaochun, on the other hand, draws inspiration from the masterpieces of the Renaissance. He reinterprets Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights from a contemporary perspective by
constructing 3D cybernetic computer models from which he derives his rich imagery. In his Microcosm
series, he forsakes the pursuit of uncanny clarity and mathematical precision stressed during the
Renaissance and returns to the subjective depiction of his dreamscapes. His digital prints on Xuan
paper depict a phantasmagoria in ink wash and fine line drawing, deliberately made to resemble
Chinese ink painting.

Liu’s starting point is the ancient world of 2-Dimensional Chinese paintings from which she creates her modern 3D fantasy scene, while Miao begins with a 3D virtual world and ends up with 2D Chinese ink paintings, in both cases, continuously juxtaposing the old and the new. Although their points of
departure are seemingly at opposite ends, their creations converge and cross along the way to present us with alternative and innovative explorations.