Fantastic Landscape and the Renaissance
Metamorphosis: Liu Dan’s Fantastic Landscape and the Renaissance
NICHOLAS HALL
17 East 76th Street, New York
13 September – 23 November 2018
Summary
Nicholas Hall is delighted to present the exhibition Metamorphosis: Liu Dan’s Fantastic Landscape and the Renaissance. The centerpiece of the show is Perceiving the Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a major landscape painting by the Chinese contemporary artist Liu Dan (b. 1953). Inspired by the Renaissance German artist Martin Schongauer’s iconic print, Christ Carrying the Cross, the painting is extremely rare in Liu Dan’s small oeuvre for its direct reference to a specific Old Master picture.
Liu Dan 劉丹
Liu Dan is an original and well respected artist in China. Born in Nanjing, Liu Dan studied at Jiangsu Academy of Traditional Painting between 1978 and 1981. He lived in the U.S. for almost 25 years before moving back to China in 2005. Liu Dan currently lives and works in Beijing.
Selected Recent Museum Exhibitions
2017
Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
2016
Ink Unbound: Paintings by Liu Dan, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Liu Dan: New Landscapes and Old Masters, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archeology, Oxford, UK
2013
The Union of the Mind and the Dao: Art Works by Liu Dan, Suzhou Museum, Suzhou, China
Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
2012
Modern Chinese Ink Paintings, British Museum, London, UK
Rochers de Lettrés, Itinéraires de l’Art en Chine, Musée Guimét, Paris, France
Why Not Ink?, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2011
The Art of Writing: Contemporary Art from Three Cultures, Artforum in der Kurhaus Kolonnade, Wiesbaden, Germany
2010
Fresh Ink: Ten Takes on Chinese Tradition, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2009
Outside In: Chinese x American x Contemporary Art, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
2007
Made in China: Works from the Estella Collection, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
2006
Shu: Reinventing Books in Contemporary Chinese Art, China Institute, New York, NY
The New Chinese Landscape: Recent Acquisitions, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2005
Über Schönheit, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Berlin, Germany
Selected Public Collections
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, New York, NY
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK
Arthur M. Sackler Museum of the Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, NY
British Museum, London, UK
The Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, HI
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Musée Guimét, Paris, France
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA