PART ONE:

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

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

•   Curator: John Morgan (USA)

 

  2.  The Concept: Integrating Chinese characters with surrealism; utilizing Chinese four treasures, they are 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! The picture for writing is the basis of the invention of all human writings of all mankind. Chinese charactersare one of greatest inventions of mankind, which the only one language has the continuity of all languages on our planet. In addition to the language function, from the artistic point of view, Chinese characters can also be seen as imagery art, which can be easily accepted and loved by the common Westerners and artists as a unique art form. Meanwhile, Chinese characters have become the source of surrealist paintings; accordingly a new form of art happened, this is phenomenal. Nothing like this has ever happened before in the realm of World Art History. To explore the 5000 year-old Chinese civilization, and to mix Western art and Chinese art could be the art trend in the future of art world.

 

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 "Janoaiserie: 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's "Study of Epitaph Painting II, 1996" in the style of Chinese rubbings and seal; Brice Marden's "Couplet IV, 1988-89" in the traces of prominent calligraphy lines. Here I must mention is that the famous Belgian surrealist painter, poet and writer Henry Michaux (1899 ~ 1984) and his "Henri Michaux Movements" typically influenced by Chinese characters.

 

Sibylle Schwarz, German surrealist, conceptist and DNA artist. She surpassed the above-mentioned artists, and became the only Western artist who used the Chinese four treasures to create artworks based on Chinese calligraphy works done by Dr. Hong Zhao, the internationally acclaimed Chinese calligrapher. In Sibylle Schwarz’s vivid explanation and interpretation of complexities of Chinese characters in her surrealistic language with beautiful poetic lines, colors consist of many figures and stories that reflect and echo the meaning of each Chinese words in order to modified the theme of each character meanings in her remarkable artworks. The artworks will be exhibiting are surrealist six scripts of Chinese characters "love", surrealist six scripts of Chinese characters "fish" of mail-art format, and Chinese "horse" characters on xuan paper, and so on.

 

Dr. Zhao Hong, distinguished professor of Chinese calligraphy of Capital Normal University, China has been lecturing on six inscriptions of the evolution of Chinese writing over 5000 years worldwide. He co-authored publication “The Brush Speaks the Civilization: the Art of Six Scripts of Chinese Writing” became "China 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 scrapt 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 National University of Slovakia, Research Field: Baroque printmaking. Repeatedly won both the Slovak Presidential Award and the Polish Presidential award.

 

Curator:

John Morgan, 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 neoplasticdisity.