The album of Mountain Tones by WU Tseng Jung records 29 pieces from the solo exhibition WU Tseng Jung: Mountain Tones . The solo exhibition was a retrospective look on WU’s 30-plus years of painting.
The curator of the show, ROAN Ching-Yueh has also commented on the WU Tseng Jung paintings on view at the exhibition. He said, “WU Tseng Jung’s paintings exhibit a pure and poetic aesthetics that’s akin to Kawabata’s writing. He portrays imaginary scenes where he finds himself in a distant mountain, gazing into the reflection of the moon on the surface of the lake while pondering the harsh reality. With the interplay between his romantic imagination and the real world, as well as the overlapping color patches on his canvas, WU manages to create a tone that reverberates between mountains and captures the intricate sentiments by humans. WU displays in his paintings a uniquely eastern aesthetics, similar to the idea in ‘In Praise of Shadows.”
