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Exhibition Review: Spirit Rock, Sacred Mountain: A Chinese View of Nature

Kemin Hu — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:40:27 +0000

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.

New Scholars’ Rocks in the Galleries - Summer 2011

Kemin Hu — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:16:57 +0000

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More than 30 New Scholar Rocks in the Spirit-stones.com Galleries

Spirit Rock, Sacred Mountain: A Chinese View of Nature

Kemin Hu — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 00:20:23 +0000

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.

Harvard Shanghai Center’s Scholar Stone

Kemin Hu — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 00:11:02 +0000

Harvard University’s new Shanghai Center in Pudong, Shanghai gains Scholar Stone from Kemin Hu Collection to welcome visitors to its new education center:

10 Views of the Honorable Old Man Scholars Rock - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Kemin Hu — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 20:19:16 +0000

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)

Paintings by Max Weiler in a discourse with Chinese Scholars’ Rocks

Kemin Hu — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 23:19:42 +0000

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:

New Scholars’ Rocks in the Galleries - Winter 2010 & Holiday Specials

Kemin Hu — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:59:10 +0000

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30+ New Scholar Rocks in Galleries (16 in Holiday Special)

AsiaStore Sale Event: Scholars’ Rocks - Asia Society, New York, NY

Kemin Hu — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:27:22 +0000

Scholars’ Rocks Exhibition and Sale at New York Asia Society
Friday-Thursday, Mar 19th- 25th, 2010
11:00am - 6:00pm

AsiaStore presents a newly acquired collection from Kemin Hu. Experience the power of scholars’ rocks or “spirit stones” — cherished by the Chinese for generations and gaining appreciation in the West. Autographed copies of Hu’s books are available for purchase at AsiaStore. Members enjoy a 10% discount.

AsiaStore, located at Asia Society and Museum, 725 Park Avenue (70th St), NYC and on-line at AsiaStore.org

New Scholars’ Rocks in the Galleries - Spring 2010

Kemin Hu — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:26:18 +0000

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21 New Scholar Rocks in Galleries

Garden Scholars’ Rocks in Your Gardens

Kemin Hu — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:04:06 +0000

These photos are from you, our customers! The first Garden Rock is from Los Angeles. The middle Garden Rock is from Austria (the first Garden Rock in Austria). The third Garden Rock is from New Jersey. They look absolutely beautiful! Submit your Scholars’ Rock photos.