Video: Invisible Poems in the Works of Lu Xinjian
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Chinese artist Lu Xinjian - a great master of disguise. In his works, he draws a variety of very, very famous objects. But they are so well encrypted and hidden that not every viewer will find them. An example of such crypto-creativity is a series of paintings Invisible Poems.
Not so long ago, we on the site Kulturologiya. RF already told readers about the work of Liu Xinjiang, and more specifically about his series of works "City DNA", which are stylized maps of the world's largest megacities.
Liu Xinjiang's new canvases are visually very similar to City DNA. Only in "Invisible Poems" the Chinese author depicted a variety of poems that have long become classics of world poetry.
These are both William Shakespeare's sonnets and the works of Charles Baudelaire. There was also a place for Chinese authors in the Invisible Poems series.
True, not every person who faces these paintings by Liu Xinjiang will guess why they are called "Invisible Poems", where is the poetry on them.
The fact is that words and hieroglyphs in Liu Xinjiang's paintings are carefully hidden under many other visual elements. So you have to take a good look to see them among a variety of squiggles. Indeed, at first glance, these canvases look like a senseless heap of multi-colored crosses, dashes, dots and other krakozyabras.
According to Liu Xinjiang, working on paintings from the City DNA series, he tried to create a new interpretation of letters and symbols in order to explore the relationship between image and writing, between visual and textual components of creativity.
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