Galerie du Monde presents an exhibition of paintings by the eminent artist Liu Kuo-sung, curated by Zhu Hongzi, who also curated his retrospective exhibition at NAMOC in 2011.

The “Rearward Glance” can be a gaze or a glimpse triggered by an instant impulse. What you see, in the exhibition, are works by an 82-year-old daring reformer and a thinking artist who commands our spontaneous respect. This exhibition will be comprised of significant works from the 1960s to the current decade.

Many of Liu’s works challenge people’s experience of art appreciation, for he has given up pursuing “the charm of brushwork” in traditional Chinese painting and does not strive for the delicacy of modeling or straightforward descriptiveness in Western painting.

Liu Kuo-sung has set an example of reforming zhongfeng (the use of the middle part of the brush tip) and also the brush itself. His decades of practice have been accompanied by theoretical reflections. It’s fair to say that it is him and his successors who have opened up the vibrant area of “Modern ink painting”, from which have sprung vitality and possibilities for the progress of the genre.

-Galerie du Monde

Image: © Liu Kuo Sung
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie du Monde