The exhibition is the first retrospective showing of the artist, Xuan Yongsheng, who returned from aboard. Furthermore, the exhibition primarily includes the series of Not Mountain Not Water and significant artworks of the early period, which reflect the true mind of the systematic organization of the artist’s career. The famous poet and art critic Dao Zi and Hao Qingsong will be the curator and assistant presenting the exhibition.

Xuan Yongsheng is a Canadian Chinese artist who has earned great achievement in different artistic areas, such as Chinese ink painting, illustration, ceramics and woodblock print. Since the 1980s, he has been painting with ink in order to explore the unique style of contemporary Chinese ink painting and its combination of expressive and natural painting language. Through the informal aesthetic of traditional ink painting, the artist blends Chinese and Western elements, introducing diversity, self-awareness, self-sufficiency, and developmental logic that sustain the transformation of the Chinese ink painting language. He opens up an art road that embodies the spiritual strength and aesthetic freedom with professional skills and tenacity.

The exhibition aims to introduce Chinese ink painting’s remarkable characteristic, which not only destroys the rigid painting mode through the power of abstraction and imagery, but also rebuilds the grand and profundity. In addition, he combines the characteristics of inclusive landscape painting, calligraphy, and western contemporary painting to create a new layout. The exhibition is expected to display until September 26.

About the exhibition

Opening time: September 20, 2014, 3:00PM

Duration: 2014.09.18 -- 2014.09.26

Location: 2nd floor exhibition hall of Building No.2, Today Art Museum

Courtesy of the artist and Today Art Museum, for further information please visit www.todayartmuseum.com.