Jointly hosted by National Taiwan Normal University and Nanjing University of the Arts (AMNUA), “Ink Painting - Academic Exchange Exhibition” is about to be presented at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall (Taipei) and the Nanjing University of the Arts (AMNUA). It will really improve the academic exchange between the cross-strait and the two schools. The artists from Nanjing are the doctors and masters of the school, and are the backbone of the “freehand group”. With a solid professional foundation and strong comprehensive creating ability, while advocating a freehand expression, they have their own artistic pursuits. The works showcase our individual artistic pursuits from different angles, meanwhile showcasing the concept and value of “having a wide range of knowledge and firmly pursuing art” from the perspective of art.

By Zhou Jingxin,

Standing Committee of the Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the People’s Political Consultative Conference, Dean of the Jiangsu Institute of Chinese Painting, the doctorial tutor of Nanjing University of the Arts

Ink creation has a specific appearance in exploration and practice, and Taiwan and Nanjing are the stronghold for cultural inheritance and development, the artistic academic exchange exhibition is a platform for exploration and communication, to enhance the group consciousness of creation and academic thinking on ink painting, to agitate more opportunities to develop each other in the future.

“Ink Painting - Academic Exchange Exhibition” invites ink creators of Nanjing University of the Arts (AMNUA), and the teachers and students of the doctoral class of the Department of Fine Arts, National Taiwan Normal University to jointly hold an ink and wash exchange exhibition, in order to collect and reflect on the individual understandings of the spiritual connotation of ink and wash, and these differences are not fixed forms, but constantly adjusting and called for the future border of volatility, through the exhibition we can more profoundly think of the concept of ink, and being confident in the multiple expressive ways of the ink implications, especially in the heritage of Shuimo culture, the Department of Fine Arts, National Taiwan Normal University has been an important cultural promoter, and bred numerous professional ink painting artists, and workers in the literature and history of ink painting, and educators of ink art, etc., and under the efforts of numerous teachers and students, to unceasingly innovate, deduce and explore ink, with practice and promotion, it is a comprehensive place for the combination of a variety of research assets.

By Huang Jinlong, Dean of the College of Arts, National Taiwan Normal University

Participating Artists:

Nanjing: Zhou Jingxin, Liu Yi, Shu Xinshui, Qin Xiuping, Xu Gang, Tan Leiming, Sun Jingsong, Chen Ming, Shi Rongqiang, Zhao Mingfu, Yang Zhenzhen, Zhou Qianhua, Liang Yu, Fang Hanlu, Shan Dingkai

Taiwan: Li Zhenming, Lin Changde, Lin Zhanghu, Cheng Daile, Zhuang Liandong, Sun Yihua, Chen Jianfa, Xu Weiying, Zeng Tingyu, Huang Yubin, Cai Chenghan, Lin Hongqian, Lu Zhenyi, Gao Zhenxue, Lin Weicheng, Yang Zhe

Exhibition Consultants: Zhou Jingxin, Li Zhenming (listed in no particular order)

Exhibition Title: “Ink Painting - Academic Exchange Exhibition”

Opening: 10:00 on May 16, 2014

Venue: the Auditorium of the ground floor of Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts (AMNUA), No.15 North Huju Road, Nanjing

Duration: May 16 - May 22, 2014

Venue: Hall 2 of floor 2, Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts (AMNUA), No.15 North Huju Road, Nanjing

Host: National Taiwan Normal University, Nanjing University of the Arts (AMNUA)

Organizers: Liuchen Gallery of Arts & Crafts, Department of Fine Arts of National Taiwan Normal University In cooperation with Nanjing Institute of Industry Technology

Phone: 400 0707 0707

Courtesy of the artists and Liuchen Gallery of Arts & Crafts, translated by Chen Peihua and edited by Sue/CAFA ART INFO.