Reconstructed Realities: Gu Gan, Lee Chun-yi, Wucius Wong
Alisan Fine Arts•Mar 06, 2025 — Apr 26, 2025
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Alisan Fine Arts is excited to present Reconstructed Realities, featuring the work of Gu Gan, Lee Chun-Yi, and Wucius Wong. True pioneers of ink art, these three artists took radical approaches to traditional styles of calligraphy, composition and methodology in their work. Their practices have been instrumental in bringing the ink tradition into the global contemporary art conversation.
Born in 1942 in Changsha, Gu Gan is considered the forefather of the modern calligraphy movement, and he was the founder of the Modernist School of Chinese Calligraphy. Influenced by Modern European artists, especially Kandinsky, Klee and Miró, Gu Gan came to believe that there were a number of ways in which Chinese calligraphy could be revitalized, and by the late 1970s he began to adopt a more radical approach to calligraphy.
Gu started experimenting with changes in the outer shape of individual characters by elongating or widening them into new forms. He would blend...More
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Reconstructed Realities: Gu Gan, Lee Chun-yi, Wucius Wong
Alisan Fine Arts•Mar 06, 2025 — Apr 26, 2025
Press Release
Alisan Fine Arts is excited to present Reconstructed Realities, featuring the work of Gu Gan, Lee Chun-Yi, and Wucius Wong. True pioneers of ink art, these three artists took radical approaches to traditional styles of calligraphy, composition and methodology in their work. Their practices have been instrumental in bringing the ink tradition into the global contemporary art conversation.
Born in 1942 in Changsha, Gu Gan is considered the forefather of the modern calligraphy movement, and he was the founder of the Modernist School of Chinese Calligraphy. Influenced by Modern European artists, especially Kandinsky, Klee and Miró, Gu Gan came to believe that there were a number of ways in which Chinese calligraphy could be revitalized, and by the late 1970s he began to adopt a more radical approach to calligraphy.
Gu started experimenting with changes in the outer shape of individual characters by elongating or widening them into new forms. He would blend...More
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