Postabstraction and Transcendence: The Inscape of Liu Kuo-sung’s Inkscapes 后抽象的升华：刘国松的心路墨迹
Registration
13 Jan 2023 
6pm 
National Gallery Singapore, City Hall Wing, Level B1, The Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium 
Free, registration required Join Professor Eugene Wang from Harvard University as he shares more about the inner logic and developmental scheme underscoring ink master Liu Kuo-sung’s expansive inkscape, and how his art is ultimately about transcendence. The lecture will be followed by a conversation with Liu Kuo-sung himself, moderated by Dr Cai Heng, Senior Curator at National Gallery Singapore.
*The lecture will be delivered in English and the conversation will be conducted in Mandarin with simultaneous interpretation (Mandarin to English and English to Mandarin) available on site.
本次讲座特邀哈佛大学教授汪悦进阐述刘国松心迹演变的内在脉络，旨在揭示升华超越是刘国松宇宙心相的宗旨。水墨大师刘国松与汪教授将在讲座后与大家进一步分享刘国松创作中的水墨实验。对谈将由新加坡国家美术馆资深策展人蔡珩博士主持。
*讲座将以英语进行，对谈将以华语进行，现场提供中英双向同步传译。
Eugene Y. Wang is the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art at Harvard University. A Guggenheim Fellow, he is the art history editor of the Encyclopedia of Buddhism. His publications range from early to modern and contemporary Chinese art. He is the recipient of the Sakamoto Nichijin Academic Award from Japan for his Shaping the Lotus Sutra: Buddhist Visual Culture in Medieval China. He is the founding director of Harvard CAMLab that explores sensorial-experiential staging of Asian cultural heritages.
Liu Kuo-sung is a pioneering figure in modern ink painting. Liu was a founding member of the Fifth Moon Group, which made significant contributions to Taiwan’s avant-garde movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Liu has devoted his artistic career to exploring and advocating the modernisation of Chinese ink painting through his ink practice and writings on art. His influence has extended beyond Taiwan to other parts of Asia, making him one of the most prominent Asian ink artists on the international art scene.
