New York - Contemporary Chinese art at the Metropolitan
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Marvelously long scrolls of Chinese calligraphy adorn the ceiling and walls of an entire gallery in the exhibition “Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
The installation, titled “Book from the Sky” by US-based Chinese artist Xu Bin, is among the 70 signature pieces by 35 contemporary artists born in China.
The show is regarded as a milestone as it exhibits the contemporary art pieces by non-Western artists in an encyclopedic museum.
“While these works may also be appreciated from the perspective of global art, the curatorial argument is that, by examining them through the lens of Chinese historical artistic paradigms, layers of meaning and cultural significance that might otherwise go unnoticed are revealed,” said curator Maxwell K. Hearn.
The exhibition contains four parts, showcasing artworks in various forms — painting, calligraphy, photographs, woodblock prints and sculpture — quite apart from traditional ink art of Chinese painting.
Other thought-provoking works include Zhang Huan’s “Family Tree,” which are photographs of Zhang’s face with inked words, Wang Jin’s “Dream of China,” a polyvinyl chloride imperial dragon robe of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), Qiu Zhijie’s painting scrolls titled “30 Letters to Qiu Jiawa,” and five tryptychs of “Crying Landscape” by Yang Jiechang.
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