Thursday 10 January 2013

Why Not Ink @ Today Art Museum


Signing off with our own calligraphy...


We headed to the Today Art Museum for the opening of the Why Not Ink? which exhibited the works of Liu Dan, Wang Tiande, Feng Bin and Xu Bing. Using ink in different forms, the artists show their varying visual experiences. The thoroughly contemporary works seemed to question the relationship between tradition and modernity with the employment of ink, a very traditional medium in China.

Liu Dan, Sunflower, 2012, ink on paper, 200 x 100 cm

Liu Dan, Landscape Roll, 2009, ink on paper, 56 x 915 cm

Liu Dan, Poppy (Yingsu Hua), 2007, ink on paper, 236 x 172 cm

Liu Dan, Dictionary (Cidian), 2009, watercolour on paper, 200 x 260 cm

Wang Tiande, Gu Shan 4, 2007, Digital image, Zuan paper, Chinese ink on paper, A rubbing from a stone inscription, Fire, 163 x 32 cm

Wang Tiande, Digital-No12-LBST007, 2012, (Qing Dynasty) steel rubbings, Wood, Xuan paper, Chinese ink on paper, burn marks, 192 x 82 cm

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