Thing is not a thing · City 02 · City of Crystal
Details
CHU CHU (B. 1975)
Thing is not a thing · City 02 · City of Crystal
Scroll, mounted and framed
Ink calligraphy on black and white photograph
78 x 98 cm. (30 3/4 38 5/8 in.)
Executed in 2017
Thing is not a thing · City 02 · City of Crystal
Scroll, mounted and framed
Ink calligraphy on black and white photograph
78 x 98 cm. (30 3/4 38 5/8 in.)
Executed in 2017
Further details
A native of Hangzhou, Chu Chu grew up in an artistic environment and studied at the China Academy of Art in her hometown, her father having graduated from the same academy. Since childhood, Chu received training in traditional Chinese painting, graphic design, oil painting, photography and film, and for her doctoral degree she studied calligraphy under Wang Dongling. Chu explores the relationship between traditional and new media and integrates them in her artwork.
In the City series, Chu Chu combines photography, calligraphy, and gold and silver colour to produce stunning cityscapes. The artist photographed panoramas of many cities in 2011, then in 2017 she re-worked her black and white photographs by writing cursive calligraphy in diluted ink and silver colour in the sky above the city. Inscribing extracts from Invisible Cities by Italian writer Italo Calvino, Chu enriches her work with Chinese calligraphy, literature, and the imagination of both her and Calvino in constructing the ideal city.
In the City series, Chu Chu combines photography, calligraphy, and gold and silver colour to produce stunning cityscapes. The artist photographed panoramas of many cities in 2011, then in 2017 she re-worked her black and white photographs by writing cursive calligraphy in diluted ink and silver colour in the sky above the city. Inscribing extracts from Invisible Cities by Italian writer Italo Calvino, Chu enriches her work with Chinese calligraphy, literature, and the imagination of both her and Calvino in constructing the ideal city.
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