Tree Art Museum: A Dual Exhibition Exploring the Temporal Dialogue Between Civilization and Art
Source：Tongzhou Cultural Tourism 2025-03-28
BMC continues to offer visually striking and distinctive exhibitions. Recently, Tree Art Museum, located in the Songzhuang Artist Village, has unveiled two concurrent exhibitions—Whispers from the Spiritual Landscape: A 3,000-Year Narrative of Civilization in Screens, from Ritual Vessels to “Religion Zen” and Traces of Creation from the Shan Hai Chronicles series. On the opening day, artists Niu Bo and Xu Yinghui were present to provide audiences with in-depth interpretations of their works.
Whispers from the Spiritual Landscape: A 3,000-Year Narrative of Civilization in Screens
This exhibition features a series of screen paintings, a culmination of artist Niu Bo’s decade-long artistic spiritual exploration. Showcasing over 30 screen artworks, the exhibition employs “spiritual landscape” as a thematic thread, engaging in a temporal dialogue between screens and sculptures, lacquerware, ceramics, textiles, and other artifacts. Through these interactions, the exhibition reveals how those objects encapsulate both the order of civilization and the aesthetics of everyday life.
The curator has thoughtfully placed meditation cushions beneath several screens, inviting viewers to sit, gaze upon the painted scenes, and imagine engaging in a dialogue with the cosmos—an opportunity to connect with the energy that the universe bestows upon them.
Traces of Creation from the Shan Hai Chronicles Series
Housed in a separate gallery, Traces of Creation presents Xu Yinghui’s artistic research inspired by The Classic of Mountains and Seas (Shan Hai Jing) and Chinese folk culture. The exhibition breathes life into ancient indigenous totems and symbolic imagery through Xu’s vivid imagination and creative interpretations. According to the artist, the essence of Shan Hai Jing lies in its worldview—an intricate tapestry of Chinese native philosophy, folklore, and mythology.
The exhibition’s ancient lines and symbols, spanning millennia, serve as both testimonies to survival and echoes of the human soul’s deepest tremors. In their most primal forms, they crystallize humanity’s ultimate inquiries into nature, deities, and the essence of existence.
Whispers from the Spiritual Landscape: A 3,000-Year Narrative of Civilization in Screens
This exhibition features a series of screen paintings, a culmination of artist Niu Bo’s decade-long artistic spiritual exploration. Showcasing over 30 screen artworks, the exhibition employs “spiritual landscape” as a thematic thread, engaging in a temporal dialogue between screens and sculptures, lacquerware, ceramics, textiles, and other artifacts. Through these interactions, the exhibition reveals how those objects encapsulate both the order of civilization and the aesthetics of everyday life.
The curator has thoughtfully placed meditation cushions beneath several screens, inviting viewers to sit, gaze upon the painted scenes, and imagine engaging in a dialogue with the cosmos—an opportunity to connect with the energy that the universe bestows upon them.
Traces of Creation from the Shan Hai Chronicles Series
Housed in a separate gallery, Traces of Creation presents Xu Yinghui’s artistic research inspired by The Classic of Mountains and Seas (Shan Hai Jing) and Chinese folk culture. The exhibition breathes life into ancient indigenous totems and symbolic imagery through Xu’s vivid imagination and creative interpretations. According to the artist, the essence of Shan Hai Jing lies in its worldview—an intricate tapestry of Chinese native philosophy, folklore, and mythology.
The exhibition’s ancient lines and symbols, spanning millennia, serve as both testimonies to survival and echoes of the human soul’s deepest tremors. In their most primal forms, they crystallize humanity’s ultimate inquiries into nature, deities, and the essence of existence.