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IOAM Ink Art

ARTIST RESIDENCY CHINA — BEIJING, no. 18

IOAM Symposium

The exhibition In Riotous Profusion — The New Possibilities of Ink Art opened at Inside Out Art Museum, Haidian, Beijing with a symposium of distinguished speakers. President Fan Di’an of China Academy of Fine Art, CAFA toured the show. The collection highlights cultural roots of ink art in China with a contemporary lineage dating to 1960s Taiwan and 1980s mainland China. Eight artists working in ink with abstract imagery are represented, all men. The female co-curator, Dr Yingchun Gong, did not attend the symposium. Speeches by curators, historians, and artists lasted two hours.

Four arts institutions contributed to the exhibition which travels in September 2015 to De Markten Gallery, Brussels, in November 2015 to Research House for Asian Art, RHAA, Chicago, and finishes in March 2016 in Ten-Po Art, Taiwan. There are many fine examples of work in the show that could not be photographed because they are displayed under glass. A catalog accompanies the show.

IOAM Symposium

Yuan Zuo, Inside Out Museum Director

IOAM Symposium

Ping Jie, Curator

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Shuang Liang, academic adviser

IOAM Symposium

Zheng Yahui documenting speeches

IOAM Symposium

Zhang Zhaohui, a third state of abstract art

IOAM Symposium

Li Gang, ink art elements

IOAM Symposium

Li Gang, detail

IOAM Symposium

Li Gang, detail

IOAM Symposium

Li Gang, detail

IOAM Symposium

President Fan Di’an of CAFA toured the show

IOAM Symposium

Inside Out Art Museum, Haidian, Beijing

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