The Brucie Collections Gallery calls attention of the modern photo-art admirers to the works of Chinese author Wang Wusheng. For the first time Ukrainian audience has an opportunity to discover one of the most significant representatives of Chinese modern art, the master of black-and-white landscape photography, thought highly by critics and collectors all over the world.

Wang Wusheng was born in 1945 in the city of Wuhu, Anhui province, China. His studying years fell at the times of the legendary Culture Revolution. A physicist by his first education, Wusheng had always been into photography and by 1973 he finally dedicated himself to the trade and became a press photographer in a local bulletin periodical. At the same time he started the project that has been on for more than four decades already and brought the author to the worldwide fame – creation of the wonderful landscapes of the mountain Huangshan, one of the most beautiful locations in China. Starting from 1981 Wang Wusheng lives and works in Tokyo, where he got his second, now artistic, higher education in the University of Nihon and in the Tokyo University of Arts. Upon returning to his fatherland in 2007, Wusheng shares his home between Tokyo and Shanghai.

The works of Wang Wusheng, focused on the amazingly beautiful mountain of Huangshan, or Yellow Mountain, on the south of his native Anhui, can be called photo-painting. Behind the powerful aesthetic impression from the black and white “portraits” of the granite peaks drowning in clouds, lays a special, philosophic and meditative attitude of the author, who, by his own words,  is still “shocked to numbness” by the wonder nature created. During centuries the seventy two peaks of the Huangshan inspired the generations of Chinese artists and, in modern times, masters of photography, but it’s Wusheng, as many agree, with his “black-on-black” style calling to the masters of traditional Chinese painting, who has managed to create a new visual language. A big expert in arts and philosophy, Wang Wusheng reassigns the relationship between tradition and modernity in photography and life in general, though leaving spectators with questions instead of answers, as a true oriental artist should.

Wusheng has already dozens of personal and collective exhibitions on his account; his works take honorable position in prestigious private collections and are on permanent display in the most famous museums, such as Viennese Kunsthistorisches Museum and China Art Museum in Beijing.

The selected works of Wang Wusheng will be able to view and purchase in The Brucie Collections Gallery starting from January, 30^th, 2014