- Exhibition at Zhejiang Art Museum "From Inception: Wang Dongling 60 Years of 
Calligraphy"

The exhibition "From Inception: Wang Dongling 60 Years of Calligraphy" opens at 
the Zhejiang Art Museum on October 16, 2021. It focuses on China Academy of 
Art's professor, Wang Dongling's 60-year exploration of calligraphy art, from 
traditional calligraphy to other styles such as Chaos-Writing (Entangled 
Calligraphy), Big Writing, Silver Gelatin Calligraphy, Calligraphy on Bamboo 
Stalks, Calligraphy using immersive virtual reality. The long span of time 
covered by the exhibits, the diversity of styles, the depth of academic 
research, and the novelty of media experimentation are unprecedented in both 
Wang Dongling's exhibition history and in Chinese calligraphy exhibition 
history.

In Exhibition Hall No. 4, named "Fantasy Land of Calligraphy," is a world of 
colored glaze illuminated by lights and colors: from abstract ink paintings to 
silver gelatin calligraphy, to the use of materials like stainless steel mirror 
and clear acrylic, and to the numerous representations through new media such 
as iPad calligraphy and motion capture digital art. 

In Exhibition Hall No. 5, named "Scholar's Snow Cave," the small-sized works in 
Regular Script and big-sized works in Cursive Script encompass calligraphy 
genres including album leaves, scrolls, tablet inscriptions, screens, etc. 

The hanging scrolls in four scripts in Exhibition Hall No.6 showcase the six 
decades' creative journey of Wang Dongling. The newly created "Big Writing" 
installation in commemoration of the 2,500th anniversary of Confucius' passing 
represents the contours of the journey of Confucius. 

He initiated the project "Big Characters Travel the World," a plan to construct 
writing scenes of Chinese calligraphy at art institutions worldwide, promoting 
academic communication between calligraphy and international art circle. In his 
view, Chinese calligraphers must enter the scenes of international art for 
mutual illumination and inspiration in cross-cultural exchange. It is only by 
"manifesting the common through differences" that calligraphy can return to its 
true origin in cultural dialogues and make due contributions to the culture of 
humanity as a whole. 

His works are represented at the National Art Museum of China, the Palace 
Museum (Taipei), Peking University, the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert 
Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the 
Vancouver Art Gallery, as well as in universities including Harvard, Yale, 
Stanford, and Berkeley.

SOURCE: China Academy of Art

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