SEEING LANDSCAPE: CORNER - CHINA 60 YEARS DANISH ARTISTS IN CHINA.

Author: Caifu, Liu
Country: Denmark
Language: English/Chinese
Year Published: 2012
No. of pages: 89
Illustrations: 110 Color Illustrations. 18 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 10”x 7 1/2”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN:
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Code: 6854

Price: $24.50

Despite great geographical distance between the countries of SEEING LANDSCAPE, cultural exchange was rewarding for all involved artists. As Elsemarie Bukdahl writes in one exhibition catalog: "you discover that Chinese culture is still characterized by harmony between the external world and the human world.” The Chinese thought before that Denmark was a distant province, and the Danes thought the same about China. The exhibition documented the current and fruitful dialogue between contemporary artists in the two countries. There was also a historical dimension of the dialogue since then Corner artists had the first collaboration with Chinese colleagues already 60 years ago. A common outlook for the current project was precisely to study each other's landscapes - 'seeing landscape'. The artists worked with their own art, while they visited the stranger and the exhibition shows what came out of it. The full title of the project opened with a Chinese guest saying "The wise enjoy the mountains; the show enjoys the water: SEEING LANDSCAPE ". The Chinese guests in Denmark saw no mountains in DK (though they got Himmelbjerg appointed), but they viewed a lot of water - saw Denmark nearly as an island community and a place where a story can unfold. The exhibtion gives the audience new perspectives to see each place depicted in paintings and drawings by artists from China or Denmark. These Chinese and Danish artists, all primarily painters, came together around something which for them is a core value; that the work of art is its strength of spirit. The figuration must not be photographic, but act as a communication medium, or expressed differently: The artwork must be the venue between reality and spirit.