Shin Hwa Gallery presents a solo exhibition featuring Cho In Ho. Cho In Ho is a contemporary ink artist from Korea and he is having his 2nd exhibition in Hong Kong. His landscape is filled with mountains and they look as if they’re dancing dynamically, for he uses multiple perspectives to describe the scenery. His viewpoint to observe the nature is constantly moving as he climbs up the mountains. This moving viewpoints are spread over on two dimensional flat paper, which make the mountains appear to dance up and down.

Once you stand in front of the artworks for a minute, you go into the scenery, then you don’t see the dancing mountains anymore. You start to see the grass, stones, trees and the path that the artist went through. His multiple perspectives lead you into hills and valleys. It feels like you’re in a quiet treasure hunting, searching for the mountain peaks and sky. His way of describing the nature is very much Asian. In fact, it’s Guo Xi of Song Dynasty who developed an innovative technique called ‘floating perspective’, with which he was able to represent multiple perspectives within a single artwork. His technique had further influenced countries in Asia. It also can be translated into the considerate aspect of Asian visual philosophy, which encourages artist to understand and describe the world in its totality.

Cho In Ho’s multiple perspective is very much exaggerated and his viewpoint is turning 360° on the paper. Yet this exaggeration delivers very contemporary and almost surreal landscapes. Shin Hwa Gallery introduces his gigantic installation in silk in this exhibition, mounted on traditional silk. The viewers will enjoy his shan shui hua on see-through material as well as the traditional art of silk patchwork in this show.