HABITAT is pleased to announce its upcoming solo exhibition of the artist Hou Weiguo – “The Path of Beauty” which will open on March 4. The exhibition presents two series of works – “The Path of Beauty“ and “Philosophical Friendship”. “The Path of Beauty“ series revolves around a small island and demonstrates the themes of formation, development, civilization, war, destruction and re-creation of the island. The whole series of 11 works is made on one single copperplate, emphasizing that beauty covers every process of the creation cycle, and trying to represent the  Eastern concept of reincarnation by using the narrative conveyed by the painting language itself. The “Philosophical Friendship” series is the artist’s  latest experimental creation of digital printmaking. It combined the latest technologies of digital generation, laser engraving and robotic arm drawing, etc. and looked for a new printing method that maximizes tool efficiency. By revealing the revolutionary change brought by the development of science and technology to the printing media through handmaking, mechanics and digitality, the artist attempted to explore the ”aura” of the digital era. As the artist expressed, the content, form language and material techniques in the work of art are complementary and intertwined with one another, evolving and advancing in the process of crossing over. Beauty covers every stage. Let beauty say it all.