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Philippe Piguet « The subject is you, your impressions, your emotions towards nature. You have to look within yourself not around you. » These words were written by Delacroix in his Journal. Words that particularly resonate when one gazes at  Li Xin’s work. They invite us to take stock of the infinite space that the artist wishes to ...

Henry-Claude Cousseau Li Xin does not consider himself a painter. We can do nothing but agree with him, as strictly speaking, it is hard to categorize his works as oil painting or ink painting: these two branches of painting merge, overlap and relate so naturally in terms of artistic concern and artistic expression. The impression, feeling, ...

By LIN Yunke In 1887, Albert A. Michelson, who later became the first American to win the Nobel Prize in the sciences, joined Edward W. Morley to design one of the most exquisite experiments in the history of physics. They were trying to save a soon-to-extinct concept of medium: Ether (also known as “luminiferous aether”), an ...

Philippe Piguet « The subject is you, your impressions, your emotions towards nature. You have to look within yourself not around you. » These words were written by Delacroix in his Journal. Words that particularly resonate when one gazes at  Li Xin’s work. They invite us to take stock of the infinite space that the artist wishes to ...

Shu Yang The strokes and smudges found in Li Xin’s first mature works, made with either ink or oils, are closer to modern European and American abstract painting than to Chinese tradition. Gradually, European classical painting became influenced by photography, which had been invented in the 19th century and started to free itself from the constraints ...

Christine Cayol What strange power compels bamboo to reach for the sky? No one can answer this question without first experiencing the bamboo's movement itself, understanding its《li》its internal essence, its evolving shape. This is how, for Su Dongpo, the bamboo needs to first grow in a man's heart before it can be depicted on paper. Let’s dare ...