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“The realm shaped by the self: through my eyes I behold the world, and thus all things are imbued with the colours of my being.”
— Wang Guowei
Zhao Gang: Shanshui Poetry features a series of new paintings that represent the artist’s life long obsession of the intertwining narratives of literati lifestyle, landscape, psychological paths of the past and present. As a seminal genre in classical Chinese literature, Shanshui poetry first appeared in the pre-Qin and Han dynasties, flourished during the Wei, Jin, reached its zenith in the Tang, and attained further philosophical and aesthetic refinement in the Song. Shaped by the interplay of social transformation and literary thought, generations of literati turned to mountains and rivers as vehicles of feeling, seeking spiritual solace and transcendence in the purity and remoteness of nature.
In Zhao’s recent works, he revisits this lineage, transforming observations and recollections of his surroundings into rhythmic meditations of the…
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“The realm shaped by the self: through my eyes I behold the world, and thus all things are imbued with the colours of my being.”
— Wang Guowei
Zhao Gang: Shanshui Poetry features a series of new paintings that represent the artist’s life long obsession of the intertwining narratives of literati lifestyle, landscape, psychological paths of the past and present. As a seminal genre in classical Chinese literature, Shanshui poetry first appeared in the pre-Qin and Han dynasties, flourished during the Wei, Jin, reached its zenith in the Tang, and attained further philosophical and aesthetic refinement in the Song. Shaped by the interplay of social transformation and literary thought, generations of literati turned to mountains and rivers as vehicles of feeling, seeking spiritual solace and transcendence in the purity and remoteness of nature.
In Zhao’s recent works, he revisits this lineage, transforming observations and recollections of his surroundings into rhythmic meditations of the…
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