Huang Hankang

#HuangHangkang

Born in Suzhou, China.

Lives and works between Suzhou, China and Paris, France.

Suzhou’s traditional beauty is echoed in the meticulous design of Huang’s works, while the artist’s chosen technique is deeply rooted in the tradition of Chinese painting.

Huang shows perfect mastery of the watercolor medium and delights in modernizing it, making use of synthetic pigments that he applies after the initial color wash to lend that first layer an oddly glossy, vibrant aspect. The technique of watercolor, whose principle is of course the dilution of pigment in water, perfectly suits what the artist wishes to express. Indeed, Huang enjoys mixing unexpected subjects to give rise to hybrid images that are at once gentle, poetic and ironic.