INKstudio at West Bund 2021｜11.11-14｜Booth A212

 Lee In, Black, Something181215 (detail)

BOOTH  A212

Jeong Gwang-Hee | Lee In | Li Huasheng | 

Wang Dongling | Wang Tiande

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West Bund Art Center, Building A

INKstudio will explore INK as the basis for an international contemporary art rooted in East Asian art history and artistic practices.

Li Huasheng  李华生

In collaboration with The Li Huasheng Art Foundation, INKstudio will present a selection of Li Huasheng’s ground-breaking grid and line paintings where the artist reinvents INK as a practice of meditative self-cultivation, liberation and self-transformation. All sale proceeds will fund the charitable mission of the Foundation to support INK as a medium and language for the creation of contemporary art.

Li Huasheng 李华生

1013, 2010
Ink on paper 纸本水墨
149 x 76 cm

1013 (detail）

 Li Huasheng 李华生

1211, 2012

Ink on paper 纸本水墨

77 x 150 cm

1211 (detail）

Wang Dongling  王冬龄

The subject of a major retrospective at the Zhejiang Art Museum, From Inception: Wang Dongling 60 Years of Calligraphy, Wang Dongling explores INK as performance in a range of media including calligraphy, photography, performance art and new digital media. For West Bund, INKstudio will present a selection of Wang Dongling’s kuangcao “wild cursive” and luanshu “chaos script” calligraphies.

 Wang Dongling 王冬龄

Zhang Xu, "The Peach Blossom Stream" 张旭 桃花溪, 2016

Ink on watercolor paper 水彩纸 水墨

76.5 x 57 cm

 Wang Dongling 王冬龄

Li Bai, “Bright Moonlight in Front of My Bed“ 李白 床前明月光, 2019

Ink on paper 纸本水墨

180 x 90 cm

Wang Tiande  王天德

Wang Tiande represents a critical turn from the experimental INK art practices of the post-Cultural Revolution 80’s to a deep engagement with East Asian art history through the classical landscape tradition. Connoisseurs of classical landscape find Wang Tiande’s incensed-burned, multi-layered contemporary landscapes deeply satisfying and yet by burning away his own brushwork, Wang Tiande takes away the primary criteria by which we traditionally judge literati painting. INKstudio will present Want Tiande’s monumental treatment of the Northern Song landscape, Fine Snow Entering the Woods, 2019.

 Wang Tiande 王天德

Fine Snow Entering the Woods 细雪入林图, 2019

Ink, rubbing and burn marks on xuan paper 宣纸、墨、火焰、拓片

283 × 137.5 cm

Fine Snow Entering the Woods (detail）

Chinese artists are not alone in exploring the use of INK as a means for creating a distinctively East Asian form of contemporary art. Korean INK artists Jeong Gwanghee and Lee In, each in their own distinctive way, explore the relationship between language-based thinking and non-language embodied experience and between artistic practice and enlightenment experience.

Jeong Gwang Hee  郑光熙

In Jeong Gwang-Hee’s The Way of Reflection series, artistic process, meditative practice, the written character and INK create a space above or outside of language where human imagination confers meaning to our conscious experience. INKstudio will also debut Thoughts Transcend the Object, 2021, Jeong Gwang-Hee’s monumental work based on the ancient pictograph for dao 道 “way” or “path” where he redefines the relationship between pictographic image, language, abstract form and experience.

 Jeong Gwang Hee 郑光熙

The Way of Reflection No. 10, 2020

Ink on Korean Paper

194 x 130 cm

 Jeong Gwang Hee 郑光熙

Thoughts Transcend the Object 思想超脱对象, 2021

Traditional Hanji paper (old book paper)

270 x 197 cm

Lee In  李仁

In his Black, Something series Lee In reconstructs the relationship between idea, experience, image, the written word and text—in both Chinese hanzi and Korean hangul. Taking various forms—including mixed media on canvas and ceramic and ink on hanji paper—Lee In explores the themes of solace, communication and being together with the world.

 Lee In 李仁

Black Something 0623 黑，某物 0623, 2020

Ink on Hanji paper

韩纸水墨

36 x 26 cm x 72 pannels

 Lee In 李仁

Black, Something181215 黑，某物181215, 2018

Mixed Media on Canvas 帆布及综合媒介

162 x 112 cm

 Lee In 李仁

Black, Something210215 黑，某物210215, 2021

Mixed Media on Ceramic 陶瓷及综合媒介

64 x 23 cm (2 pcs)

About INKstudio

INKstudio is an art gallery based in Beijing. Its mission is to present Chinese experimental ink as a distinctive contribution to contemporary transnational art-making in a closely-curated exhibition program supported by in-depth critical analysis, scholarly exchange, bilingual publishing, and multimedia production. Representing more than 13 artists, including Bingyi, He Yunchang, Peng Kanglong, Li Jin, Li Huasheng, Wang Dongling, Wang Tiande, Yang Jiechang, and Zheng Chongbin, the gallery exhibits works of diverse media, including painting, calligraphy, sculpture, installation, performance, photography, and video. Since its inception in 2012, INK Studio has regularly appeared at art fairs such as the Armory Show (New York), Art Basel Hong Kong, and West Bund Art & Design (Shanghai) and placed works into major public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, and M+, Hong Kong.