Touch of Zen

Between meditation and creating ink works, an artist gains his or her own understanding of life and truth of the world. Working with ink and colors, Zheng Qinyan has created for her audience a Zen realm that opens them to the diversity, extensiveness and simplicity of the living world.

In Between Clouds and Waters, an exhibition at the Yindi Art Museum in Beijing, shows her recent paintings, calligraphic and porcelain pieces, and installations using the zharan (tie-dyeing) textiles technique.

Zheng, a professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, demonstrates in her creation an inheritance of the traditional art view and cultural spirit, which saw painting and calligraphy as belonging to the same origin, and the importance of integrating self-reflection into one's practice of art by which one was able to reach spiritual zenith.

Zheng's works have a rhythmic sense, and the trees, flowers, birds, and even rocks and mountains that she details are in a peaceful, reclusive state. The exhibition will end on July 15.

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