2015 Newsletter
2015 Newsletter
2015 Newsletter
Spring 2015
Vol. 35, No. 1
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EPISODE:
Lu Chuntao's Ink Art
3.7-4.11
2015
Lotus
M i n d Tr a v e l i n g
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The Chinese Culture Foundation is pleased to present Mind Traveling, the 2015 inaugural
edition of Episode. Curated by Professor Shen Kuiyi, Mind Traveling features the ink work of Lu
Chuntao.
As a site for global dialogue over the last 50 years, the Visual Art Center has showcased
traditional to contemporary works from a diverse array of artists. The works displayed in the
exhibition include newly created artwork influenced by Lu Chuntao's travels to San Francisco.
Sponsor Spotlight
Lu Chuntao is a Shanghai based artist with work previously shown internationally in Hong Kong,
Italy, Taiwan, Singapore, Switzerland, and Korea. Lu graduated from the Shanghai International
Studies University in Fine Art and he is currently vice principal of Shanghai Calligraphy and
Painting Institute, visiting painter at Shanghai Chinese Painting Academy, member of Chinese
Artist Association and executive director of Shanghai Artist Association. This is his debut US
exhibition at the Visual Art Center of the Chinese Culture Foundation.
Episode is a program of the Visual Art Center which invites guest curators, collectors, and
community organizations to exhibit a broad view of diverse works in Chinese art and culture.
It complements the cutting-edge, innovative work established through the Visual Art Center's
flagship programs of Present Tense and XianRui.
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China and the United States.
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Spring Festival
March 7- April 11
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April 4
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May 16
5 16
Let's Dance!
June-Aug
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June 6
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July
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July 18
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Dancing on Waverly
August 15
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Sept 26
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Oct 17
10 17
F r o m
t h e
ight: Episode
C u r a t o r
Shen Kuiyi
How to develop and expand the pictorial and technical language of ink
painting has always been a challenge for Chinese artists. Particularly
since the beginning of the twentieth century, innovative artists who
sought breakthroughs within traditional Chinese ink painting have
constantly explored new possibilities.
About the
Guest Curator:
Kuiyi Shen is Director of
Chinese Studies Program
and Professor of Asian
Art History, Theory, and
Criticism at the University
of California, San Diego.
In the more open discourse of the past few decades, many artists have
experimented with the language of contemporary ink art to reveal
their individual perceptions of the world, to manifest their humanistic
attitudes, to express their concerns about life and to explore the spiritual
world. Lu Chuntao is one of the most accomplished of the artists
who thus expanded the language of ink painting in recent years. The
notion of mind travelling in art may be traced back at least to the Six
Dynasties period (220 - 589). Chuntaos lotus pond creates a site for
spiritual wandering.
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