Tag: Calligraphy
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Qiu Zhijie
In this, Qiu Zhijie’s first solo UK show, we must mentally navigate his ink map paintings, in which the conceptual is intertwined with the painterly, the painterly with the calligraphic, and we must physically navigate his paper reliefs, set out…
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Leila Heller – interview: ‘The Upper East Side is hot again and I love being back’
Gallerist Leila Heller talks about showing Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat in the 1980s, after meeting them in New York clubs, promoting artists from the Middle East, her current show curated by Warhol’s muse – and why she has just…
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Ibrahim El-Salahi – interview: ‘Drawing for me is a kind of meditation’
Using his art as a form of meditation to alleviate chronic back pain, Sudanese artist Ibrahim El-Salahi turns his medication packets into miniature canvases. He talks here about his intricate drawings and how they are enlarged on to canvases –…
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Li Huasheng: ‘A line is nothing. When I paint a vase, its outline does not exist, it is imagined’
The Chinese artist is admired for his abstract ink paintings. Here, he explains how a visit to the US changed his art and his life, and why he has ‘stopped communicating with most people’
