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PRE-ORDER NOW - Published: 27/06/2024
Shadows of Boulder Hill presents Tang Shuo�_Ts powerful paintings of his childhood experiences in rural China, documenting his concurrent solo exhibitions at Fabienne Levy�_Ts galleries in Geneva and Lausanne, Switzerland. Shadows of Boulder Hill presents a group of seventeen powerful paintings in oil on linen and a selection of drawings by artist Tang Shuo (b. 1987 in Guangxi, China) that delve into his childhood experiences in rural southern China. This, Tang�_Ts first book, documents the concurrent exhibitions of these works at Fabienne Levy�_Ts galleries in Geneva and Lausanne, Switzerland, in 2023. Shadows of Boulder Hill marks a significant point in Tang�_Ts career; in 2023 he incorporated narrative threads into his paintings for the first time, depicting young lovers, recluses and wanderers lost in imagined and remembered landscapes of lush vegetation and wildflowers. A selection of the fascinating true stories from Boulder Hill that inform Tang�_Ts practice, personal and collective, are detailed in the gallery notes. Shadows of Boulder Hill includes a foreword by gallerist Fabienne Levy and an essay by multidisciplinary scholar Dr Matthew Holman. Holman explores the significance of time, place, perspective and memory in Tang�_Ts recent body of work, as he considers the impact of China�_Ts Cultural Revolution on subsequent generations. Tang�_Ts move to the UK in 2020 prompted him to reconsider his past and his identity in a new country. Here, Tang appears as an artist who has found his voice as he eloquently explores scenes of family, friendship, suffering, solitude and survival.Binding: Paperback / softback