Heartbeat in all Seasons from Lan Zhenghui

Hero’s gone  flowers of yesterday  new strength comes  heartbeat remains

Tight and loose  ink reflects  black and white  the sky and earth and all

Four seasons  time keeps flowing  different moods  a view inside

Contradiction and conflict  twists and turns  lightning and thunder  wind and storm

Paints for heart  ups and downs  mood changes so  just like destiny

Applying a bold and forthright stroke to express the changes of the nature that just like heartbeat.

This work is created according to the size of space and theme of the exhibition.

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Song Xialian (doctor of York University, Toronto): Lan Zhenghui’s Persistence of Neo-ink

Chinese splashed-ink landscape produces an illusion as the viewpoint keeps moving. But an integrity and tolerance is formed through the illusion. Lan has fully revealed this feature in his paintings. That big stroke has been filtered by a rich culture background.

Afriza Malna (poet and critic in Indonesia)

Ink and rice paper have a tight connection to the classical Chinese art, especially calligraphy and characters. Such materials make Lan walk towards two trends at the same time: the extension of traditional art and innovation of contemporary art. The combination of the two provides a larger room and has produced his doubts, anxiety and hopes to these two kinds.

Jean Couteau (professor of ethnology in France)

There is no need to feel surprised that such a tie of contemporary manner and Chinese traditional writing is produced in Lan’s arts. His works are the result of the revolution and doubt of Contemporaneity and tradition.

Robert Morgan (American critic)

Lan’s “scale ink” has finally returned to the front line of Chinese contemporary art. In the process of splashing the ink into the water, Lan’s exquisite yet rough pictures of rich ink has changed our consciousness of space through a relativity of time. These works gain a mysterious paradox.

Liu Xiaochun (critic)

The theory of Chinese traditional painting pays special attention to the manner of expression. But no one has discussed the expressing manner in structure. In fact arrangement is tune while stroke is tone. Arrangement is look and stroke reflects sense. Arrangement is surface while stroke is dot and line. Tune and tone have both gained a power of expression form your works. The tune (structure) is even more direct and stronger.

Gao Minglu (curator)

By applying a big brush to paint, this is on the other way of tradition. That has made a challenge. In fact you have applied an untraditional manner. The sensitivity of landscape and pictures with plum blossoms, orchids, bamboo and chrysanthemum inside Chinese painting has been removed. You have even manipulated an anti-tradition manner to against the tradition of Chinese painting.