![]() ![]() ![]() Other artists relinquish traditional materials completely. Left to right: Fu Xiaotong, “719,560 Pinpricks” (2019), handmade xuan paper (courtesy the artist and Chambers Fine Art) Bingyi, “Can The Eyes Sing? The Bodies of Sacred Mountains” (2021–22), ink on paper (courtesy the artist and INKstudio) Zhang Jian-Jun, “Rubbing Planet in Shui-mo Space” (2022), Chinese ink, oil paint, acrylic, and rice paper on canvas (courtesy the artist) ![]() For example, Zheng Chongbin’s large ink painting “New Six Canons (Xin Liufa)” (2012) references a fifth-century text on the fundamentals of Chinese ink painting, while Zhang Hongtu’s tongue-in-cheek “Zodiac Figures” (2002) condenses old and new as tricolor Tang dynasty-style ceramic animals don the outfit worn by popular figurines of Mao Zedong from the 1950s and 1960s. The 50-plus artworks on view take on tradition by reinterpreting cultural influences - artistic conventions and techniques, as well as poems, stories, plays, and literature - from a wide range of historical periods, decades and even centuries in the past. “This exhibition is about building an intergenerational conversation about how artists today are pushing the boundaries and plumbing the depths of different Chinese artistic traditions,” Duffy told Hyperallergic on a recent tour. ![]()
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