WORKS ELABORATION:
This work is an attempt to reconstruct Chinese characters with mixed media and breaks its original single practicality. It explores a modern abstract pattern of “calligraphy, painting and printing” in harmony with each other from both external and internal aspects, in which “painting” refers not only to Chinese painting, but to the “scientific sense” of points, lines and planes, as well as to the Western visual and perceptual experience of color and composition.
TUTOR COMMENT:
The unbounded is bounded - this can be felt directly from the picture. From the use of materials to painting methods, Xing shows a break between two realms: Chinese painting and Western oil painting are two realms, the East and the West are two realms, and so are the past and the present. The boundary is a kind of definition, but this work is not an expression of the borderlessness between two realms, but rather the difference between the two worlds to be placed in the same picture. Their different boundaries do not diminish but become more evident and the two realms still exist together. The real boundlessness of this painting is the boundlessness of the boundaries themselves.
-- Liu Gang