Zheng Shengtian and Wang Dongling's Guan Shan Gathering at Chambers Fine Art Explores Cultural Exchange Through Ink
From January 9 to February 22, 2014, Chambers Fine Art in New York City hosted "Guan Shan Gathering: Works by Zheng Shengtian and Wang Dongling." This exhibition highlighted collaborative pieces created in 2013, featuring Wang's inscriptions of Zong Bing's Preface on Landscape Painting on canvases, accompanied by a video that captured the ink's interaction with the surface. Zheng's 2000 work, "Clement Greenberg: Modernist Painting," showcased his wife Aikang's Chinese translation of Greenberg's essay, with Hank Bull delivering the English version. Additionally, Wang's ink-on-paper artworks, rooted in calligraphic traditions, were on display. Zheng remarked that the projects represented cultural exchange and misinterpretation, linking to the Metropolitan Museum's exhibition "Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China."
Key facts
- Exhibition ran January 9 to February 22, 2014 at Chambers Fine Art in New York City
- Featured collaborative works from 2013 between Zheng Shengtian and Wang Dongling
- Wang Dongling inscribed Zong Bing's Preface on Landscape Painting on oil-prepared canvases
- Video showed ink repelled by canvas surface, creating ghostly characters
- Included Zheng's 2000 project Clement Greenberg: Modernist Painting with text by Aikang
- Canadian artist Hank Bull recited English text in the 2000 project video
- Wang Dongling's ink paintings referenced Robert Motherwell's Elegy to the Spanish Republic series
- Exhibition was in dialogue with Metropolitan Museum's Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China
Entities
Artists
- Zheng Shengtian
- Wang Dongling
- Aikang
- Hank Bull
- Robert Motherwell
- Zong Bing
- Clement Greenberg
Institutions
- Chambers Fine Art
- China Academy of Art Modern Calligraphy Research Center
- Metropolitan Museum
Locations
- New York City
- United States
- Zhejiang
- China