TRANSCENDING REALITY: NEW INK PAINTINGS BY TAI XIANGZHOU
Exibition and Sale Asia Week New York: March 16th - March 24th 2012

Tai Xiangzhou’s star is ascendant in the contemporary Chinese art world. Already he is attracting passionate collectors and fine art institutions to his beautiful landscape paintings. In just the past year, he has exhibited on three continents. The Chinese Porcelain Company is therefore honored to present Tai Xiangzhou’s first solo show in North America during Asia Week 2012.

“Transcending Reality: New Ink Paintings by Tai Xiangzhou” features sixteen new ink paintings, five of them in the highly coveted handscroll format. Under the tutelage of Liu Dan since 2006, Tai breathes a modern spirit into the classical Chinese art form. His deeply imagined landscapes are both poetic and bold, from robust mountain crevasses to fluttering leafy branches.

His unfolding landscapes filled with evocative details invite the viewer to contemplate not just the features of the natural world but how they echo the dimensions of a spiritual one. In his “Genesis” series, immovable and deeply etched mountain crags and cliffs still find movement and even lightness in their curving rock formations. Tai’s always engaging paintings, rendered in the finest ink, reveal deeper levels of detail and meaning upon repeated viewings.

Tai is well-known for his exacting standards for materials. The paper for his paintings is made with 10th century techniques that yield a silk-like quality, and he only uses Qianglong-era ink. The romance between ink and paper is evident in his sublime visual poetics of mountain, water, wood, and calligraphy.

Tai Xiangzhou was born in 1968 in Yinchuan, China and worked for many years in digital media and cultural exhibitions. He is currently finishing his Ph.D. at the Art Academy of Qing Hua University with Bao Lin as his advisor.

Established in 1984, The Chinese Porcelain Company offers Asian and European works of art and furniture of the finest quality. Our specialties are Chinese ceramics and works of art for the Imperial, Domestic and Export markets, Asian sculpture, including those of Chinese, Tibetan, Indian, Khmer and Vietnamese origin, French and Continental furniture, ceramics and works of art, and contemporary Chinese paintings. An illustrated brochure will accompany the exhibition.

For further information please contact Edith Dicconson at 212-838-7744.