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Lot Essay
Qiu Deshu is an experimental Chinese artist and an exponent of contemporary Chinese ink-wash painting. His early training with painters of the Shanghai School has enabled him to create the unique Fissuring Series.
Drawing inspiration from the cracks in worn and mottled stone slates, Qiu adapted the lines of these complex and delicate fissures for his creative work. Making use of the unique characteristic of Xuan paper, he first soaked the paper and then cut it with a sharp instrument to create rough edges which, as a result, exposing the bottom layers of the paper. These exposed layers of Xuan paper thus evolved through the process of "fissuring" and "change". Over the course of the past thirty years, Qiu's "fissure" works have evolved from simplicity to complexity, and it is these very "fissures" that reveals how this evolution has progressed.
Around 2000, Qiu revisited traditional Chinese landscape painting and made it his principal theme. Fissuring (Lot 548) is a remarkable piece painted during this period. Similar to the artistic style of Song Dynasty, Qiu exhibit tiers of mountians randomly positioned yet arranged in a way that conveys a poetic atmosphere. Qiu depict a modern Chinese landscape painting with rich colours and magnificent visual impacts.
The enhancement of "delineation" and the gradual addition of layers and layers of colour in mural painting are the two major techniques Qiu employees to transform the traditions of Chinese landscape painting.
Fissuring exhibits modern elements such as imagery, variety, and two-dimensionality. Qiu's utilises the exposed layers of Xuan paper to create visual depth bred within mountain peaks, as well as expressing his personal feelings towards the ever-changing society through techniques such as "fissuring" and "change".
Drawing inspiration from the cracks in worn and mottled stone slates, Qiu adapted the lines of these complex and delicate fissures for his creative work. Making use of the unique characteristic of Xuan paper, he first soaked the paper and then cut it with a sharp instrument to create rough edges which, as a result, exposing the bottom layers of the paper. These exposed layers of Xuan paper thus evolved through the process of "fissuring" and "change". Over the course of the past thirty years, Qiu's "fissure" works have evolved from simplicity to complexity, and it is these very "fissures" that reveals how this evolution has progressed.
Around 2000, Qiu revisited traditional Chinese landscape painting and made it his principal theme. Fissuring (Lot 548) is a remarkable piece painted during this period. Similar to the artistic style of Song Dynasty, Qiu exhibit tiers of mountians randomly positioned yet arranged in a way that conveys a poetic atmosphere. Qiu depict a modern Chinese landscape painting with rich colours and magnificent visual impacts.
The enhancement of "delineation" and the gradual addition of layers and layers of colour in mural painting are the two major techniques Qiu employees to transform the traditions of Chinese landscape painting.
Fissuring exhibits modern elements such as imagery, variety, and two-dimensionality. Qiu's utilises the exposed layers of Xuan paper to create visual depth bred within mountain peaks, as well as expressing his personal feelings towards the ever-changing society through techniques such as "fissuring" and "change".