Huang Rui is one of China’s most highly regarded artists and in 1979 was one of the pivotal protagonists of the first non-conformist art groups “The Stars Art Group.” Huang uses art to promote social ideologies and initiated some of the first free art expressions in the Post-Mao era.

In this series of sculptures, Huang Rui uses to investigate words used in communication and the space it creates around it when we try to understand the word.

Huang Rui transforms text / language into sculptural form. It unveils the multi-facets in words. Sometimes it’s read as a symbol. But it also derives many combinations and meanings. They contain many historical references and background material.

Huang Rui is particularly interested in text in a way that it allows you to read into history. It carries an original meaning of the word, as well as a history in it. And how it’s interpreted by politicians in today’s world.

Words are for imagination. You see the text but you understand it because it provokes an imagination. It’s this imaginative zone that is being neglected by painters & sculptors and HR wants to fill it up. It’s an idea in concept that he presents. He doesn’t create the meaning. He only brings it out from its hidden shell. He has visualized it.