Liang Hao's sculpture

“I am always playing on and playing up the strengths of traditional Chinese painting in my work. But I am also looking at film, literature, and philosophy, and using this foundation to break some of the limits of ancient painting” with these words Liang Hao summarizes the path of his research in an excellent way. A son of art, Hao grew up with his godmother's father, a well-known collector of Chinese art who had studied with Zhang Daqian, perhaps the most important Chinese artist of the twentieth century. Then the leap to America. The Detroit of the 80s welcomed him. While the Soviet tradition of socialist realist sculpture prevailed in China, North America was in the midst of the season of Reaganite hedonism. In the United States Liang Hao had great freedom in the use of creative materials and languages. In those years he began to explore the relationship between his Asian heritage, individual experience and artistic creation. In his first solo exhibition in an institutional venue in Beijing, Liang Hao presents a series of sculptures that he has created since returning to China in 2009. These are works that investigate the language of modernist sculpture in a new personal and original key .