Further Details
LIU DAN (B. 1953)
Selected exhibitions
2013 Suzhou Museum, China (solo)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA (group)
2012 British Museum, London, UK (group)
Musee Guimet, Paris, France (group)
2010 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA (group)
2006 Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA (group)
Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA (group)
1999 San Diego Museum of Art, California, USA (solo)
Notable collections
Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, USA
The British Museum, London, UK
Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
Musee Guimet, Paris, France
San Diego Museum of Art, California, USA
Liu Dan was born in Nanjing and attended Jiangsu Traditional Chinese Painting Institute where he studied under artist Ya Ming. Although trained in China, Liu only began to associate himself with classical Chinese painting when he moved to the United States, where he had unprecedented opportunities to learn from the copious museum collections there.
Liu's scrupulous, almost photographic depictions of flowers, rocks and landscapes are manifested through his superb skill in ink and brush. Intrigued by scholar's rocks since the 1980s, Liu perceived these objects as the elemental component of Chinese landscape painting. Traditionally artists have composed landscape paintings utilizing rocks as a model for creating mountains and routes that require new interpretations of temporal and spatial dimensions. Through meticulously studying a small rock, Liu attempts to see the wider universe from a microscopic view. He transforms a tangible object into an imaginary landscape which constantly refreshes his spirit and opens up a new inner spiritual world.
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