策展人：

• 约翰 • 摩根， 策展人、作家、美中教育、文化和商业高级咨询顾问。

• 现任美国世界中国学研究学会首席执行官；前美国银行行长休 • 麦考当代艺术中心国际委员会主席和北京外国语大学中国文化研究院研究员。

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学术研究：

• 中国学以及中国文化国际传播学、中西美学与跨文化比较研究与推广。

• 汉字书法文化与美国STEM/STEAM教育研究。(Science科学、Technology技术、Engineering工程、Art艺术和Mathematic数学)

• 汉字书法文化与脑可塑性研究。

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"LOOKING EAST - THE ART WORLD IN THE 21ST CENTURY"

TRANSMUTATION-TRACING THE PAST, DRAWING THE FUTURE

Nothing like this has ever happened before in the realm of World Art History. 

21st Shanghai Art Fair, 2017/11-02-2017 ~ 11-05-2017

Bryce Reagan INC, USA

Booth #: E193

 

PART ONE:

1.  Theme: TRANSMUTATION & DERIVATION - TRACING THE PAST, DRAWING THE FUTURE

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• Artist: Sibylle Schwarz (Germany), Zhao Hong (China)

• Curator: Weihong Yan (USA)

 

2.  The Concept: Integrating Chinese characters with surrealism; utilizing traditional Chinese "four treasures" (Chinese xuan paper, Chinese ink, Chinese brush, and inkstone) as source and medium to interpret 5,000 years of ancient Chinese culture in Western philosophical aesthetic language; and to explore the Chinese four treasures' value in art, as well as explore new art forms, fully merging the Eastern into the Western art philosophy.

 

3.  The Value: Chinese characters, the making of China! Pictographic writing is the basis of all human writings of all mankind. Chinese characters are one of greatest inventions of mankind, and are unique among all the languages on our planet in being continuously used from prehistory till now. In addition to semantic function, from the artistic point of view Chinese characters can also be seen as expressive imagery, which can be easily accepted and loved by Western artists and non-artists as a unique art form. Meanwhile, Chinese characters have become the source of surrealist paintings; accordingly a phenomenal new form of art has happened. To explore the 5,000 year-old Chinese civilization, and to mix Western art and Chinese art, could be the art trend of the future.

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In the 19th century to the 20th century, successive waves of Western artists have sought the future of Western art in the Far East. Early on, the focus was Japan, but through the twentieth century many turned also to China. Van Gogh's oil painting "Japonaiserie: The Flowering Plum Tree, 1887" with strong elements, and style of imitation of Chinese characters. The American painter Georgia O'Keeffe's "Blue Lines, 1916" represented Chinese landscape style in her drawing, and other western artists influenced by Chinese art are Pat Steir  ("Study of Epitaph Painting II, 1996" in the style of Chinese rubbings and seal) and Brice Marden  ("Couplet IV, 1988-89" in the traces of prominent calligraphy lines). Here I must mention the Belgian surrealist painter, poet and writer Henry Michaux (1899 ~ 1984) and his "Henri Michaux Mouvements" which were influenced by Chinese characters.

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Sibylle Schwarz, a many-sided German surrealist, conceptist and DNA artist, "the queen of one-line drawing" of the world, has aggressively surpassed the above-mentioned artists, and became the only Western artist who used the Chinese four treasures to create artworks based on Chinese calligraphy done by Dr. Hong Zhao, the internationally acclaimed Chinese calligrapher. In Sibylle Schwarz’s vivid explanation and interpretation of the complexities of Chinese characters in her own rich surrealistic language with beautiful poetic lines, colors consisting of many figures, and stories that reflect and echo the meaning of each Chinese word in order to modify the theme of each character's meanings in her remarkable artworks. The artworks we will be exhibiting are the surrealist six scripts of Chinese characters "love", surrealist six scripts of Chinese characters "fish" (in mail-art format), Chinese "horse" characters on xuan paper, and so on.

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Dr. Zhao Hong, distinguished professor of Chinese calligraphy of Capital Normal University, China, has been lecturing internationally on six inscriptions in the evolution of Chinese writing over 5,000 years. He co-authored the publication “The Brush Speaks the Civilization: the Art of Six Scripts of Chinese Writing," which became China's "Best Book of the Year 2014", the 1st Book of the six scripts of art from 5,000 years of China's history.

 

PART TWO:

• Sculpture: Chinese zodiac - monkey, the world's first scrap-metal sculpture works.

• Artist: Huang Qicai. Chinese sculptor, his academic research field is in multi-material experimental art.

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PART THREE:

• Baroque printmaking

• Artist: Dr. Peter Kocak, Professor of Graphic Arts at the Preso University, Slovakia, Research Field: Baroque printmaking. Repeatedly won both the Slovak Presidential Award and the Polish Presidential award.

 

Curator:

Weihong Yan, American curator, author, US-China education, culture and Business Senior Consultant and strategic specialist and research professor of Chinese studies in Beijing Foreign Studies University, China. He is also the chief executive officer of the World Association Chinese Studies.

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Academic:

1. International relations focus on Chinese studies.

2. Chinese and Western aesthetics and cross-cultural research.

​3. Interdisciplinary studies of Chinese calligraphy and neuroplasticity. 

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Contact Info:

Weihong Yan

brmorganleeeann@gmail.com

704-164-1616 (USA) 

Add: 4736 Hedgemore Dr. Unit P, Charlotte, NC 28209, USA.