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News | Fung Ming Chip - Les Poèmes du Mandarin by Hèrmes
January 28, 2020 When we designed the Krug Room at The Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Hong Kong, we initially approached Hermès to provide... Read more -
Fung Ming Chip | The Seals of Ming-Chip Fung by Wang Fangyu
Fred Wang Fangyu January 28, 2020 Orignally published in the brochure for the exhibition Ming-Chip Fung : The Seal 1975-1985, New York Chinese seal carving is... Read more -
News | Tai Xiangzhou: “Eight Views of Xiaoxiang” On View at Princeton University Art Museum
Guo Xinran October 22, 2019 Tai Xiangzhou (born in 1968)’s ink painting 'Eight Views of XiaoXiang' (2017) is currently on display at the Princeton University... Read more
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News | Tai Xiangzhou - At the Exhibition Painted Screen: Tradition and Future at Suzhou Museum
October 22, 2019 On September 6, 2019, exhibition Painted Screen: Tradition and Future opened at Suzhou Museum. Two works of Tai Xiangzhou—Painting after... Read more -
News | Yau Wing Fung - Matter at Ink Asia 2019
October 22, 2019 Yau Wing Fung is exhibiting his work at. a special exhibition Matter , part of the Ink+ project organized by... Read more -
NEWS | Scholar Wen C. Fong (1930-2018) Commemorated by The MET and Princeton University
Guo Xinran August 22, 2019 Wen C. Fong (1930-2018) was an outstanding scholar in the field of ancient Chinese art history. He passed away on... Read more
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News | Arnold Chang and Michael Cherney - Yellow Mountains (Huangshan)
Guo Xinran May 12, 2019 从2009年开始，画家张洪（Arnold Chang, b. 1954）和摄影师秋麦（ Michael Cherney, b.1969）共同创作了一系列作品。《黄山册页》是这一系列的其中之一，完成于2012年（图一）。作品是一本折叠册，由十二组图片做成。每组左边是秋麦的照片，右边是张洪的纸上水墨（图二）。照片来自秋麦在黄山拍摄的一张照片的细节部分（图三）。秋麦截取了照片中的一条，将其分成连续的十四等分，选取其中十二张，印刷在张洪绘画所用的宣纸上寄给他，张洪继而通过水墨画的形式对秋麦的照片做出回应，最后，秋麦完成册页的装裱。 《黄山册页》由纽约大都会博物馆收藏，现正作为展览“溪山无尽——中国山水画传统”的一部分在该馆展出。在展览上，册页被拉开展示，二十四张图片形成连续的整体。秋麦的摄影以灰色调为主，而张洪的画面有大面积的留白。站在一定距离外看，图片之间色调的不同让作品具有独特的视觉冲击力（见图一(组)）。 这种独特的视觉冲击力也建立在图片之间的共鸣上。近距离观看的话，可以看到每组摄影与水墨画之间构图上的呼应。在作品的有些部分，可以明确看到两张图片中类似的山川、岩石形态（图四）。而在其它部分 ，两件图片仿佛将山水画中的细节无限放大，构图中只能辨认出笔触或色调的变化（图五）。另外，秋麦将照片打印在宣纸上。宣纸的吸水性让画面更加柔和，更接近张洪的纸上水墨的质感。张洪和秋麦在个人的实践中都长期保持对传统艺术语言和审美观念的回溯。张洪的笔法和构图主要取自元代以降的文人绘画，秋麦的摄影也受到中国传统绘画的影响。两位艺术家的合作基于他们对中国传统绘画相近的理解方式。艺术史学者安雅兰和沈揆一在一篇文章中将秋麦和张洪的合作作品看作一种文人间的对话。他们合作作品中摄影和绘画的并置延续了传统绘画作品上题字与绘画之间的共鸣。 和而不同可以很好地概括《黄山册页》的独特视觉冲击力。两种媒介之间既存在联系，又保持着微妙的距离。在秋麦和张洪合作的其它作品中，作品之间的过渡多以其它方式出现。有些作品中图片交界处采用模糊处理，过渡看起来更加柔和；在另外一些作品中，秋麦的照片会以三角形或扇形出现在构图中；在大部分的合作作品中，秋麦的照片是张洪水墨画中的一个格子。如《仿王己千》（2016）中，照片位于构图的正中，张洪的绘画与摄影中岩石的起伏构成有机的整体，如同笔触从照片延伸到了水墨画面上（图六）。与其它的合作作品不同，《黄山册页》中绘画与摄影是不连续的，图片之间并无明显的视觉线索作为连接，两张并置的图片以相似但独立的构图出现。 这种并置带来的视觉观感相当吸引人。在2014年出版的一份展览图册中，一位学者曾经写到：“我们看到两种肌理既连续展开又相互形成对比。这是一种奇特（uncanny）的感觉。”在同一份图录中，也有学者提到，观看秋麦和张洪的合作作品时，观者的视线经常在两种媒介的交界处反复停留。在有关《黄山册页》的访谈中，艺术家和访谈者也曾提到过，这种格子的构图方式让作品看起来更加当代。 《黄山册页》中图片的边缘和图片的排列方式看似不重要的细节，不过也是这些细节指向作品与传统文人对话在形式和媒介上的不同。关注这些细节也许可以帮我们进一步理解两位艺术家的合作，以及在当代回溯传统的意义。 需要说明的是，现当代艺术的视觉语言并非张洪和秋麦首要考虑的因素。 张洪的创作并不基于照片，而来自秋麦的摄影让他联想到的中国传统绘画作品。秋麦在拍摄和选择合作作品中的照片时也受到中国绘画的影响。在与大都会博物馆策展人史耀华（Joseph Scheier-Dolberg）的一次访谈中，张洪提到， “我们并不特意去创新，我们想做的是我们觉得对的、实在的、可以用得上我们各自的技巧和共同的美感的东西。” 在同一个访谈中，秋麦说：“我们的合作对水墨传统是尊重的……不需要是革新了什么东西，只是为后来的人再往前走一小步。” 同样，张洪和秋麦都不认为构图中的格子是自己创作的先决条件。张洪曾提到，合作作品中的直角和直线的边缘没有直接影响到他的创作；对秋麦来说，图片的选择主要基于他对作品画面的设想，而不是几何的构图。 《黄山册页》中的格子深深嵌入到两位艺术家对中国古代传统的思考中。张洪的艺术实践与元代绘画渊源颇深，也受到明清绘画的影响。他更注重对想像中山水形态的描摹，对自然潜在规律的把握，而非直接的再现。张洪的实践植根于中国传统绘画一个重要的转变阶段。艺术史学者方闻在文章... Read more -
News | Shen Chen - Bild Macht Religion
October 14, 2018 The exhibition ”BILD MACHT RELIGION (IMAGE POWERS RELIGION)–Art between Reverence, Prohibition and Destruction“holds by the by Art Museum Bochum, Germany,... Read more -
News | Arnold Chang and Michael Cherney - All Under Heaven: Landscapes of China
September 29, 2018 Shared appreciation of China’s classical tradition of art and culture proves to be a powerful unifying force in the art... Read more
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News | Ink Worlds: Contemporary Chinese Painting from the Collection of Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang
June 20, 2018 Stanford, CA– The first exhibition at the Cantor Arts Center devoted solely to contemporary Chinese ink painting features more than... Read more -
News | Tai Xiangzhou - Intersection: International Art and Culture
May 30, 2018 We are pleased to announce that in celebration of the 25th Anniversary of Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art and... Read more -
News | Michael Cherney - From the Canglang Pavilion
May 19, 2018 Academic Adviser: Fan Di’an Exhibition Director: Zhu Qiang Curator: Wu Hongliang Psychological Consultant: Liu Zhengkui Space Artist: Jiří Příhoda Curatorial... Read more
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News | Chen Duxi - Blissful Land Ⅱ — Still Waters Run Deep
April 14, 2018 Blissful Land Ⅱ —— Still Waters Run Deep Shanghai Himalayas Museum April 14th – May 28th, 2018 | 10:00 –... Read more -
News | Tai Xiangzhou - Mirroring China’s Past: Emperors and Their Bronzes
February 24, 2018 Chinese bronzes of the second and first millennia BC are some of the most distinctive achievements in the history of... Read more -
News | Arnold Chang and Michael Cherney - Two Arises Three: The Collaborative Works of Arnold Chang and Michael Cherney
February 3, 2018 The University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG) of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) will present From Two Arises Three:... Read more
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News | Yau Wing Fung - Wu Bin: Ten views of a Lingbi stone, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
January 23, 2018 Location: Resnick Pavilion LCAMA Date: December 10, 2017–June 24, 2018 In ancient China strange and marvelous stones were valued for... Read more -
News | Arnold Chang and Michael Cherney - Steams and Mountains Without End: Landscape traditions of China
September 11, 2017 From the standpoint of splendid scenery, painting cannot equal [real] landscape. But when it comes to the wonders of brush... Read more -
News | Wang Mansheng - Washi and Four Artists From The World
October 16, 2016 EXHIBITION OVERVIEW WASHI AND FOUR ARTISTS FROM THE WORLD Ino-cho Paper Museum October 1 – October 30, 2016 Read more
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News | Micheal Cherney - Berkeley Eye: Perspectives on the Collection
August 21, 2016 The University of California, Berkeley began collecting art shortly after its founding in 1868. Bacon Hall Library and Art Museum... Read more -
News | Micheal Cherney - Conversations: Past and Present in Asia and America At Allen Memorial Art Museum
August 21, 2016 In the arts, the past is often present in many forms. It can appear as a resilient stylistic tradition, or... Read more -
News | Micheal Cherney at Redtory Museum Of Contemporary Art
August 21, 2016 Michael Cherney participated in the large-scale international art exhibition “Being and Inking: Documenting Contemporary InkArt (2001-2016)”. It is organized by... Read more
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News | Wang Mansheng - At Princeton Art Museum
August 4, 2016 Sound in the Mountains 2010 Silence Series 2008 On display at Princeton Art Museum to honor Professor Jerome Silbergeld. Jan... Read more -
News | Arnold Chang and Michael Cherney - At Kalamazoo Institute Of Art
July 23, 2016 This exhibition features 20 works, both solo and collaborative, by two artists working in complementary mediums to explore the landscape... Read more -
News | Wang Mansheng at Godwin-Ternbach Museum
February 15, 2011 This retrospective of over 70 works, organized in conjunction with Queens College’s “Year of China,” reveals the inspiration for Mansheng... Read more
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