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Lot 845
WEI LIGANG (B. 1964)
Gold-Ink Cursive: Songs of the Phoenix
Closed29 May 2017
Price Realised
HKD 200,000
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WEI LIGANG (B. 1964)
Gold-Ink Cursive: Songs of the Phoenix
Scroll, mounted and framed
Ink and acrylic on paper
97 x 90.5 cm. (38 1/4 x 35 5/8 in.)
TRANSLITERATION
west / lake / boat / dragon / mountain / phoenix / flute / song
Gold-Ink Cursive: Songs of the Phoenix
Scroll, mounted and framed
Ink and acrylic on paper
97 x 90.5 cm. (38 1/4 x 35 5/8 in.)
TRANSLITERATION
west / lake / boat / dragon / mountain / phoenix / flute / song
WEI LIGANG (B. 1964)
Gold-Ink Cursive: Songs of the Phoenix
Scroll, mounted and framed
Ink and acrylic on paper
97 x 90.5 cm. (38 1/4 x 35 5/8 in.)
TRANSLITERATION
west / lake / boat / dragon / mountain / phoenix / flute / song
Gold-Ink Cursive: Songs of the Phoenix
Scroll, mounted and framed
Ink and acrylic on paper
97 x 90.5 cm. (38 1/4 x 35 5/8 in.)
TRANSLITERATION
west / lake / boat / dragon / mountain / phoenix / flute / song
I am a student of mathematics. I’ve always had a fantastical side, and I’ve always been interested in exploring complex and mysterious things. A painter can make a complex magic square, but my forms are recognisably calligraphic and are not purely visual. They are like new characters.
- Wei Ligang
Wei Ligang, born in 1964 in Shanxi, was originally trained in Mathematics at Nankai University in Tianjin. Since 1985, he has held solo and group exhibitions in China and overseas, including institutions such as the National Art Museum of China and the Shanghai Museum of Art. He lives and works in Beijing since 1995.
The creation of the gold-ink cursive series is inspired by the cursive calligraphy of late Ming renowned calligrapher Fu Shan and various types of scripts such as the Oracle bones script, the clerical script, and the regular script which were developed in China over the past three millennia. Wei’s work encapsulates both writing (shu) and image (xiang); and the image component of his work is inspired by randomised elements in life such as a tree branch, a phoenix or a primitive symbol such as an arrow. In Gold-Ink Cursive: Songs of the Phoenix, one can trace the tree branch extended from the character of phoenix (feng) and the spikes at the back of the character of dragon (long). As Wei pays tribute to the thousand year old Chinese calligraphic tradition, his clever and bold composition and brushstrokes give his “writing-image” a distinct contemporary outlook.
- Wei Ligang
Wei Ligang, born in 1964 in Shanxi, was originally trained in Mathematics at Nankai University in Tianjin. Since 1985, he has held solo and group exhibitions in China and overseas, including institutions such as the National Art Museum of China and the Shanghai Museum of Art. He lives and works in Beijing since 1995.
The creation of the gold-ink cursive series is inspired by the cursive calligraphy of late Ming renowned calligrapher Fu Shan and various types of scripts such as the Oracle bones script, the clerical script, and the regular script which were developed in China over the past three millennia. Wei’s work encapsulates both writing (shu) and image (xiang); and the image component of his work is inspired by randomised elements in life such as a tree branch, a phoenix or a primitive symbol such as an arrow. In Gold-Ink Cursive: Songs of the Phoenix, one can trace the tree branch extended from the character of phoenix (feng) and the spikes at the back of the character of dragon (long). As Wei pays tribute to the thousand year old Chinese calligraphic tradition, his clever and bold composition and brushstrokes give his “writing-image” a distinct contemporary outlook.