Solo Exhibition Visconti Fine Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia
On March 16, 2023, a dual exhibition by artists Wang Xin and Zoran Mušič will be held at the Visconti Fine Art gallery in the capital of Slovenia. The exhibition will feature 22 works and 4 prints by artist Wang Xin, as well as 12 works and 6 prints by Slovenian painter Zoran Mušič.
The enigma of our existence, the meaning of life, and the mystery of death have always been enduring philosophical questions explored across all cultures and religions. Not only have philosophy and religious discourses offered countless interpretations and perspectives, but unique and diverse answers and explanations can also be found in centuries of poetry, prose, and all other forms of artistic expression.
This dual exhibition by the young Chinese artist Wang Xin and the renowned Slovenian painter Zoran Mušič is dedicated to this grand and artistically challenging theme—one that few artists have persistently explored and distilled with such vividness and creativity. The energy and intense emotional impact embedded in these works strike and deeply move the viewers, thereby connecting the two artists despite their differing cultural backgrounds, creative motivations, and eras. For any sensitive observer, these works reaffirm that sincere artistic energy unites us—it is timeless and transcends geographical boundaries.
Wang Xin's recent pastel creations over the past two years serve both as memento mori and as poetic hymns to life, transformed through the artist's hands into profound visual reflections on this theme. The carefully selected, intense greens and masterful pastel techniques convey the artist's dual symbolic message: the chosen color acts as a visual link to the landscapes she experienced in her childhood and youth, while the exquisitely subtle pastel technique hints at the instability and transience of physical existence. The vibrant green images, executed in a single breath and radiating energy, the contours delicately outlined in fragile pastels, the scattered fragments of human bodies—all transform, flow, and metamorphose into wild, lush vegetation. Leaves tremble and shimmer in jungles and thickets, becoming dark roots and silver threads of water. They cascade along the rushing waterfalls of Wang Xin's youthful landscapes, dissolving along the banks into bright sandy crystals and grass. Fully immersed in nature, life and death become an acceptable, tranquil transformation of matter—a transmutation into different forms and different realms of existence. Accompanied by divine spirits and ritual dances, everything flows (Panta rei).
These images are not the corpses of Zoran Mušič. Even as they approach death, contorted by the immense horror of suffering, they stand as terrifying, silent witnesses to human evil and torment. Yet, through his astonishing artistic talent, Mušič was able to transform his dreadful experiences into pure artistic expression. Only thirty years after escaping the horrors of the concentration camp was the artist able to articulate his daily nightmares. It was not until the completion of his years-long painting process, culminating in the series "We Are Not the Last," that his pain began to recede. We can sense that the agony he endured softened into compassion and mourning. We see the corpses gradually transforming into shapes and spots—into mounds of earth; petrified screams become rocks, and the dead merge into the landscape as part of the soil. From dust we come, and to dust we return...
— Curator Živa Škodlar Vujić
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