Alisan Gallery presents its latest art exhibition “The Art of Ink”, featuring 15 artists’ unique ink masterpieces that highlight the heritage and innovation of Chinese ink painting in the past half century.
The exhibited works are from renowned artists Lu Shoukun, Zheng Zhongbin, Yang Yongliang, Wang Tiande, Li Junyi, Zhang Jianjun, Tai Xiangzhou, Zhang Yu, Lin Guocheng, Zhang Yirong, and Chu Chu, as well as emerging artists Zhang Xiaoli, Zhuo Jiahui, Wang Jiayi, and Ren Light Pan. These painters go beyond tradition, using innovative materials and creative methods while preserving the spirit and charm of ink painting.
As a traditional subject in Chinese ink painting, landscape serves as the essence of art, not in the realistic perspective of Western art, but as a reflection of spiritual resonance, mood, and character. Inheriting the core spirit of ink painting and landscape art, artists further transform landscape painting with new media, materials, and compositions, responding to reality and imagination through the cultural context and narrative of Chinese landscapes.
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In addition to landscapes, flowers and birds are another traditional subject matter in Chinese ink painting. Inspired by the flexibility and beauty of nature, as well as the virtues of human nature and the laws of nature, artists create ink paintings of flowers, birds, and butterflies in a completely new composition style. Artists such as Chu Chu, Li Junyi, and Zhang Yirong use a plain background to highlight the vibrant flowers, emphasizing the ultimate delicacy hidden within the flowers.
For contemporary ink artists who explore the forms of ink art, they have created a new visual vocabulary that stems from abstraction, symbolism, and continuous experimentation with materials and techniques. The allure of their art is no longer limited to the pictorial space, but rather in their reconstruction, concern, and study of the world’s condition and self-existence. You may want to visit the exhibition to see how artists interpret contemporary contexts through ink.
“Ink Refinement Art”
Date: From now until May 15th
Time: 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Location: Artistic Gallery Central Space, 1 Flower Street, Central, Hong Kong, 21st floor
Image source and learn more: Alisan Gallery
