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Michael Goedhuis
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London, United Kingdom

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The SalonBooth C7

Selected Works Press Release Location
The Holding by Whitney McVeigh contemporary artwork works on paper
Whitney McVeigh The Holding, 2007 Ink on paper
103 x 77 cm
Michael Goedhuis Contact Gallery
Michael Goedhuis is delighted to present a selection of works for this year’s The Salon Art + Design fair. Our focus is on Chinese contemporary ink works on paper, represented by artists such as Wei Ligang, Qin Feng, Wang Dongling, Yang Yanping, Yao Jui-chung, Leung Kui Ting and Zeng Shanqing.

China is the oldest surviving civilisation on earth, and Chinese contemporary ink works, from calligraphy and paintings to photography and video, express the continuation of this vast past in ways that are meaningful for society today both in China and the West.

Calligraphy is the sublime and central achievement of China and has been practised for hundreds of years by millions of Chinese, for whom it is a method of achieving the harmonious integration of mind and body.

Painting, together with calligraphy, poetry and music, constitutes one of the four key traditional arts of China and is an extension of the art of calligraphy. It is, therefore, like calligraphy, linked to the sacred prestige of the written word.

Today’s ink artists are deeply aware of the classical canon and its aesthetic and moral imperatives and have carefully studied the old masters - as Picasso and Cézanne studied Raphael, Poussin, Velázquez and others, in order to formulate their own revolution for their work to be meaningful for the world of today.

Very many different stylistic approaches have evolved over the past 30 years. Works now range from those that, at first sight, look quite traditional but in fact embody powerful, fresh aesthetic initiatives, via those poised delicately in an intermediate style, to those that are unambiguously avant-garde. But all of the best contemporary practitioners have a common purpose… to create works that do not jettison the great cultural legacy of the past in formulating a language that addresses the intellectual, cultural and social issues of today.

61 Cadogan Square
London, SW1X 0HZ
United Kingdom

www.michaelgoedhuis.com/
+44 207 823 1395

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