Liu Xuguang Artist, born in Beijing in 1958, PhD in Fine Arts at Tsinghua University, Professor at Beijing Film Academy.
Liu Xuguang has much research experience in the recent developments of global fine arts and new media art. He studied in Japan and got to know the art of Mono-ha. He has done research in Eastern thoughts and created the theory of Essence theory in fine art, whereby he explored the issue of formal essence and medium in contemporary art. His long-time visual exploration are expressed both in material medium and digital form. Based on his theory of Essence, he painted the series "Heaven and Earth" in 1991, created the painting installation works "Heaven's eye" and "Suspension" in 1997 and 2001 respectively, and painted a series of paintings titled "Marks" from 2004 to 2013. As for the works in digital form, he made the video "Ink" in 2004, the interactive digital work "I" in 2010, the photograph "The River of Ink" in 2011, and the medium film "mò Image" in 2013. Liu's artistic production has been very fruitful. Utilizing the concepts of Essence and Medium, Liu creates his own abstract way of expression that is uniquely Chinese and informational. Liu is the creator of the concept of Essence, a predecessor of artistic production guided under the concept of Essence, as well as an influential and famous artist.
Liu Xuguang's artist addresses issues like spatiality, temporality, Chan, morality, color, symbol, medium by exploring the concept of Essence after the post-modern era. His art is pictographic; it transcends abstraction and build a unique visual form within the larger question of human beings' spiritual core and the main body of Essence. The visual elements become heavenly through the abstract diagram that decodes its hidden informational mechanism. Leibniz foresees the digital age through colliding Western thoughts with the Eastern spirit he found on the Eight Diagram designed by Fu Xi. The collision and merging of the ontology of the spirit and the material in the east and the west grants us limitless visual possibilities in our lives.
About The River of Ink In china, ink is the most important elements of culture and symbols of civilization. The concept of black and white, the Yin and Yang—Ba gua in the Book of Changes penetrate all throughout the history of Chinese culture. Both Yellow River and the Mississippi River is the cradle of world-renowned cultural, they were the representatives of ancient agricultural civilization and modern industrial civilization. Traces of ink write the whole Process of Civilization of human. “The River of Ink” explained the meaning of civilization and the importance of their own.
The diversification color and the essence of ink make Chinese Ink Presenting Five Colors. Ink liquid blend, Ink quality collision, In images and abstract images of heaven and earth will be brought into the world of agricultural and industrial civilization, Also brings us to the universe of known and unknown horizon. 作者: 闻正 时间: 2013-11-30 21:56
