This exhibition, featuring Kemin Hu’s rock collection and mountain paintings by Hai Tao and C.C. Wang, was held this year from February to April at Baruch College’s Sidney Mishkin Gallery in New York City. The exhibition was well received by many. For some, it was their first time learning about Scholars’ Rocks and seeing them up close. The exhibition especially the 17 Scholars’ Rocks had “held the attention” of major newspapers and Asian art magazine:
“Rock, Paper, Sculpture” Wall Street Journal, by Mr. Lance Esplund, March 5, 2011
Arts of Asia magazine, by Dr. Robert C. Morgan, May 2011 issue.
July 21st, 2011
Exhibition: Spirit Rock, Sacred Mountain: A Chinese View of Nature
featuring Kemin Hu’s Rock / Mountain Paintings by Hai Tao and C. C. Wang
Dates: Friday, February 25 to April 6, 2011 (Opening reception on Thursday, February 24)
Location: Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College (135 East 22nd Street, NYC)
Contact: 212-802-2690. The exhibition will be open to public.
November 26th, 2010
Harvard University’s new Shanghai Center in Pudong, Shanghai gains Scholar Stone from Kemin Hu Collection to welcome visitors to its new education center:
November 26th, 2010
Ten Differentiated Views of the Honorable Old Man by Liu Dan (Chinese, born 1953)
Beijing, China, 2007-10
Set of nine hanging scrolls and one handscroll
On exhibit as part of Fresh Ink: Ten Takes on Chinese Tradition
Dates: November 20, 2010 - February 13, 2011
Location: Gund Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts. Boston, MA
Liu Dan describes rocks as ‘the stem cells of Chinese landscape painting’ because they ‘hold the myriad forms of nature and their ability to transform is infinite’. Liu (b. 1953) believes that a well-chosen rock holds countless suggestions of both physical and spiritual landscapes, much like a stem cell has the ability to develop into any part of a complex organism. His paintings are pictorial expressions of this point of view.
Art connoisseurs and scholars in China have been studying and collecting rocks for millennia. A fine rock stimulates shenyou, ‘imagined travel’, by suggesting a landscape for the viewer to enter and explore. For practitioners of rock viewing, the ability to successfully transform a rock into a fully realized, imagined landscape is a measure of a person’s inner harmony with the underlying order of the cosmos.
Liu first began painting rocks after emigrating from China to the United States in 1981. His rock portraits are the result of deep and sustained meditation on his subjects, but ultimately, they are only necessary steps leading to his final goal: a fully realized mental and spiritual landscape that transcends the limitation of this physical world. In his new work, Ten Differentiated Views of the Honorable Old Man, Liu has succeeded in making visible such flights of fancy.
(sourced from Orientations magazine)
November 26th, 2010
Max Weiler (1910 – 2001) “The Nature of Painting” is the title of an exhibition in celebration of the 100th birthday of the artist at the ESSL Museum in Klosterneuburg near Vienna, Austria from 19th March to 29th August 2010.
The exhibition “The Nature of Painting” takes account of Max Weiler’s profound relationship with old Chinese art and Chinese thought through a juxtaposition of the painting cycle “Like a Landscape” with Chinese scholar’s rocks.
It is the first time that modern paintings are shown together with traditional Chinese Scholars’ Rocks. The opening of this endeavour was a great success where many prominent persons of the cultural scene in Austria as well as the ambassador of China
Popular Republic attended.
Installation Essl Museum 2010: Chinese Scholars’ rock “Cave of the
Heremit Fu-Sheng”, Ying stone of 34 x 25 x 44 cm, place of origin: Guangdong,
China, Willi Benz collection
Installation view Essl Museum 2010: Painting by Max Weiler in a dialogue with a Chinese
scholars’ rock, Lingbi stone of 52 x 20 x 46 cm, Willi Benz collection
Ying stone of abstract shape from Guangdong, China (25 x 10,5 x 45,5
cm), Willi Benz collection
Installation Essl Museum 2010: paintings by Max Weiler together with a
Lingbi stone 27 x 18 x 63 cm, Anhui, China, Willi Benz collection
Photos: Suiseki Journal (Issue 3/2010) published by the European Suiseki Association
More Information:
http://esslmuseum.org/english/exhibitions/weiler.html
Video of exhibition:
November 25th, 2010
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