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Zhou B Art Center is presenting “新山水 New Chinese Contemporary Landscape,” a group exhibition of Chinese artists, curated by Mo Chen. The works take on the subject of landscape “山水” (“Shan Shui,” literally meaning mountains and water), in a variety of media.
Human and nature are one. The mood of mountain and water is also reflected in the human spirit. Landscape Painting (山水画), is regarded as the highest form of Chinese Ink Painting (水墨画). It depicts imaginary/observational scene of “mountain” and “water”, which represents Chinese literati spirit that resides in a symbolic space.
The innovation of New Chinese Contemporary Landscape is to treat the subject as a cultural concept associated with historical and humanity meanings, instead of stereotyping it with medium specificity. Then we are able to reinterpret Chinese Landscape with an international aesthetic by thinking the subject in contemporary age.
The artists in the exhibition are: Mo Chen, Qigu Jiang, Yi Kong, Liao Liao, Siyang Li, Yewen Dong.
Curator: Mo Chen.
Assistant curator: Siyang Li.
Human and nature are one. The mood of mountain and water is also reflected in the human spirit. Landscape Painting (山水画), is regarded as the highest form of Chinese Ink Painting (水墨画). It depicts imaginary/observational scene of “mountain” and “water”, which represents Chinese literati spirit that resides in a symbolic space.
The innovation of New Chinese Contemporary Landscape is to treat the subject as a cultural concept associated with historical and humanity meanings, instead of stereotyping it with medium specificity. Then we are able to reinterpret Chinese Landscape with an international aesthetic by thinking the subject in contemporary age.
The artists in the exhibition are: Mo Chen, Qigu Jiang, Yi Kong, Liao Liao, Siyang Li, Yewen Dong.
Curator: Mo Chen.
Assistant curator: Siyang Li.