Roaming the Cosmos of the Heart ·Illuminated, a solo retrospective exhibition by Liang Quan, a leading figure in Chinese abstract painting and ink collage, will be held from December 29, 2025, to February 28, 2026, at H+ Art Museum in Suzhou’s Gusu District, a museum designed by the internationally renowned architect Tadao Ando.
Titled Illuminated, the exhibition reflects the Eastern aesthetic ideals of clarity and tranquility. Spanning the museum’s third and fourth floors, it presents 43 works from Liang Quan’s Green and New Springs series, alongside a site-specific installation, Jiangnan, specially commissioned by H+ Art Museum. Through layered compositions of paper, color, and ink, Liang constructs images with a profound sense of time. Moving between inner serenity and perceptual insight, his works trace a poetic path toward memory, homeland, and the deeper currents of cultural civilization. Rooted in the aesthetic traditions of Jiangnan, the exhibition resonates across the boundaries of past and present, material and spirit.
The central commissioned installation, Jiangnan, created in collaboration with architect Liu Xiaodu, rises in the museum’s atrium. The three-meter-high birchwood structure abstracts the region’s stone-paved pass, moss-covered surfaces, and whitewashed walls into a restrained geometric composition of black, white, and gray. While responding to the austere materiality of Ando’s concrete architecture, the installation evokes the poetic atmosphere of Jiangnan’s misty landscapes through a softer visual language.
Elsewhere in the exhibition, selected works from the Green series are transformed from two-dimensional compositions into three-dimensional spatial structures, offering viewers a bird’s-eye perspective. A hand-embroidered piece created over several months by Suzhou embroidery artisans is also incorporated into the display. Using needle and thread as a painter’s brush, the work reinterprets Liang Quan’s visual language, bringing the tactile sheen of silk into dialogue with contemporary art. As a nationally recognized form of intangible cultural heritage, Su embroidery here acquires renewed sensory and conceptual depth.
