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As part of Asia Contemporary Art Week (ACAW) 2017 signature program: THINKING PROJECTS— pop-up exhibition series focusing on research-based artistic endeavors curated by ACAW director Leeza Ahmady, The Pre-existent Painting by Guo Hongwei converts the gallery into a natural history laboratory with three components. The first comprises of 80 to 100 new small watercolors rendered through relentless observation and conceptual deductions of numerous natural mineral samples. Guo has described the project as “a structural study of the manner in which painting systems connect with different patterns …