Zhou Yan Contemporary Chinese Art Archive 周彦当代中国艺术档案
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Date
1995
Format
Photograph
Materials
Acrylic on linen
Dimensions
135 x 110 cm
Description
The paintings in this series all have a common structure. Numerous vertical lines break up the chaotic jumble of painted lines covering the entire canvas. It is unclear how the artist created these lines as residue of the paint is still faintly apparent, suggesting that tape was not used to keep the demarcations sharp. The lines are mainly composed with two colors: milky white brushstrokes superimposed on black, wider ones. "Line Field" series at its initial stage to the artist was an experiment and exploration on the relationships between point, line, surface (2D), and eventually, spatial units (3D). Later on the artist was interest to explore the intersecting spaces (line over line, for example), the alternating representations of the "real" and the "virtual" (perhaps by factures), and what an art writer termed "formal aestheticism". (「線．場」秦一峰個展, 2016, 欣传媒 Xin Media, available on https://www.xinmedia.com/article/77051) (Jerry Wu'23) (ed. by Nicole Wang '26).
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