New Moons Ink Art Lecture 2024 | Li Xianting: New Literati Spirit in Contemporary Chinese Ink Art
Schedule
Sat Oct 19 2024 at 11:00 am
Location
1 St. Andrew’s Road, Singapore, Singapore 178957 | Singapore, SG
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New Moons Ink Art Lecture 2024 | Li Xianting: New Literati Spirit in Contemporary Chinese Ink Art 新月水墨讲座 2024 | 栗宪庭: 新文人精神与水墨的当代性
Sat 19 Oct | 11am | National Gallery Singapore, City Hall Wing, Level B1, Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium | Free, registration required: https://bit.ly/NewMoons2024
*The lecture will be delivered in Mandarin with simultaneous interpretation (Mandarin to English) available on-site.
*讲座将以华语进行，现场提供中英同步传译。
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The New Moons Ink Art Lecture series is National Gallery Singapore’s bi-annual programme on ink art, one of the oldest art forms in the world. Inspired by master ink artist Liu Kuo-sung’s epic landscapes and his various innovations in ink art, the programme embraces the manifold possibilities of ink—both as a medium and a form of expression. As the title implies, this series endeavours to celebrate various trajectories of ink art in its plurality and hybridity, just as the moon cycles through the multiple lunar phases. By highlighting regional and international scholarship on ink art, the programme investigates how the art form continues to be relevant today.
The rise of the literati, or amateur painters, during the Song dynasty shifted Chinese painting towards expressing native sensibility and natural wit. Literati painting became mainstream in the Ming and Qing dynasties but faced unprecedented criticism in modern times, particularly during the May Fourth New Culture Movement. Since the mid-1980s, the trend of "New Literati Painting" has re-emerged as a unique phenomenon in contemporary ink art. The inaugural New Moons Ink Art Lecture invites Chinese art critic and curator Li Xianting to explore the historical evolution of the New Literati spirit and its relevance to contemporary Chinese ink painting.
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About the speaker
Li Xianting is a Chinese critic and curator. He served as the editor of Fine Art Magazine and Fine Arts in China, and played a leading role in reporting on the 85 New Wave movement, a nationwide avant-garde art movement in the 20th century Chinese art history. His articles, “The Significance is not the Art” and “The Feeling of Boredom in the Contemporary Chinese Art: On the Trend of Cynical Realism,” are key references for studying modern and contemporary Chinese art. He also curated significant exhibitions such as "China Avant-Garde Exhibition" (1989), "China’s New Art, Post-1989" (1993) and "Der Abschied von der Ideologie: Neue Kunst aus China" (1995).
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为传达与分享“现代水墨之父”刘国松大师的卓越艺术成就，新加坡国家美术馆推出新月水墨讲座系列，以刘国松大师《太空系列》中的宏伟宇宙景观以及孜孜不倦的水墨实验与创新精神为灵感，摘取“日新月盛”中的“新月”二字为题，探讨水墨作为一种创作手法和艺术表达形式的无穷可能性。《新月水墨讲座系列》旨在促进国际交流，进一步推广现当代水墨艺术研究，展现水墨艺术发展轨迹的多元性、多样性以及其现当今的关联性。
宋代随着文人士大夫即业余画家的兴起，改变了中国绘画艺术的走向，中国绘画从此以主观性灵的表达为宗旨。文人画至明清逐渐占据了中国艺术的主流地位，却在近代，尤其是五四新文化运动的思潮下成为了众矢之的。八十年代中期开始，“新文人画”潮流兴起，成为现当代水墨中独特的一种艺术现象。首届新月水墨讲座邀请中国艺术评论家及策展人栗宪庭，追朔新文人精神的历史演变和水墨的当代性。
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关于讲者
栗宪庭，艺术评论家，策展人，曾任艺术杂志《美术》和《中国美术报》的编辑，85新潮美术运动的推动者之一。他的文章如《重要的不是艺术》和《当前中国艺术中的无聊感——现世写实主义潮流析》等是研究中国现当代艺术的重要参考文献。他曾策划展览《中国现代艺术展》（1989年）、《后89中国新艺术展》（1993年）和《从国家意识型态出走：中国新艺术展》（1995年）等重要展览。
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