An active figure in the Asian contemporary art scene, Guan Huaibin is always preoccupied with the task of creating new forms through giving modern expressions to Eastern traditional ideas. In the past decade, his works, often referring to the oriental landscape architecture, have cast new light on social issues and the nature of art.
Read MoreFor example a recent work, City of Labyrinth, is a sociological and archeological investigation of the changes that occurred in the Twentieth Century. The labyrinth, juxtaposed with a slanted tower, is composed of about a hundred doors from in various places and periods in the last century. As a vestige of the bygone world, they create a realm between time and space, inside and outside, history and memory, the past and the present. We cannot help but question our existence and conditions here and now.
