Wu Yang's artworks displayed on "Flowery Heart, Flowery Stone" exhibition superficially depict stones, but essentially express feeling. Here stone is externalized heart, and flower is beautiful dress of heart. Flowery stone is actually the heart in beautiful dress. Heart is not stone, but it is metaphorized as stone; and flower is not dress, but it resembles beautiful dress.

At the first sight of Wu Yang's oil paintings, one may be astonished by the dreamlike images and tension-filled figures presented by such a tender and graceful woman. Similarly as surrealist, Wu Yang fabricated such a space in her painting: The endless field, the deep mountain stream and unbounded seashore; together with the different leading roles: the huge rocks wrapped with cotton print, the suspending stone, the flying petals and unrealistic beings. All these jointly built the field beyond the sense of time and space, on which the fine and soft cotton print covered the cold and hard stone. If it was surrealism that sought for realistic creative concept in subconsciousness and dreamland, Wu Yang depicted her personal life experience and unique inspiration in paintings.

Wu Yang realized several times of transformations in identity, from cotton print designer, to fashion designer, brand founder, and then professional artist. Today we present the audience with Wu Yang's first solo exhibition, on which she, as a professional artist, will show her artworks in recent 10 years. We are expecting that her sincere and honest creations will touch the deepest of your heart.

Image: © Wu Yang, Concealed in Crimson, Today Art Museum