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Ten Poems by Su Shi
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QIU ZHIJIE (B. 1969)
Ten Poems by Su Shi
A set of ten hanging scrolls
Ink on paper
Each scroll measures 68 x 65.5 cm. (26 ¾ x 25 ¾ in.)
Video transferred to DVD, 30 minutes
Executed in 2004
PROVENANCE
The Origo Collection
LITERATURE
Chinese Ink Painting Now, Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., New York, 2010, pp. 138-139
Ink: The Art of China, Michael Goedhuis Publishing, London, 2012, pp. 124-125
Ten Poems by Su Shi explores the dialectics of appearance and disappearance. The work consists of calligraphy and its video documentation: the artist has written the text in backward stroke order and reverse spatial order. The video is however played in reverse order so that the characters seem to be disappearing stroke by stroke. Qiu Zhijie once commented that ‘this is the changing nature of things: sometimes they appear in front of your eyes, sometimes they hide within a state of possibility. This possibility runs through the veins of my work.’
Ten Poems by Su Shi
A set of ten hanging scrolls
Ink on paper
Each scroll measures 68 x 65.5 cm. (26 ¾ x 25 ¾ in.)
Video transferred to DVD, 30 minutes
Executed in 2004
PROVENANCE
The Origo Collection
LITERATURE
Chinese Ink Painting Now, Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., New York, 2010, pp. 138-139
Ink: The Art of China, Michael Goedhuis Publishing, London, 2012, pp. 124-125
Ten Poems by Su Shi explores the dialectics of appearance and disappearance. The work consists of calligraphy and its video documentation: the artist has written the text in backward stroke order and reverse spatial order. The video is however played in reverse order so that the characters seem to be disappearing stroke by stroke. Qiu Zhijie once commented that ‘this is the changing nature of things: sometimes they appear in front of your eyes, sometimes they hide within a state of possibility. This possibility runs through the veins of my work.’
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