Qiu Deshu

Since 1982, Qiu got inspiration from a crack on an old slate by chance, that’s when he started to create works for Fissuring series, he’s continued to study the techniques and deepened its themes in the past two decades repeatedly. Fissuring art, it’s a way of painting that structure, tearing, integration happen at the same time, by using tearing, rubbing, craving techniques on Xuan paper, which shows the wonderful material of Xuan paper. Which also creates a natural, free changing painting line-the fissures. He changes the order of colouring, all the colours are bottom color which are prepared in advance, and continue to tear and crave on the first layer on Xuan paper. The flying lines and surprising lighting colours, all express the intertwine coexistence between close-range tension and deep space.

This fissure art breaks the tradition that ‘Ink is the essence of Chinese paintings’ thoroughly, which changes the passiveness and subsidiary status of Xuan paper, and makes a new way of expressing art by showing its characteristics of whiteness, exquisite, pliability, semitransparent and water permeability etc. Qiu surpasses the traditional techniques and images structure that traditional Chinese paintings follows which is by using brush and ink to paint on paper, he shows the modern fissuring era in a totally new image by integrating Xuan paper and canvas, ink and oil, painting and craving.