• Authors: Menene Gras, Pilar Ribal, Dieter Ronte.
  • Catalan | Spanish | English | German
  • 978-84-15029-53-3
  • € | Hardcover | 24.6 x 32.7 cm | 87 page
  • AVAILABLE AT INSTITUT D'ESTUDIS BALEÀRICS
  • Government of the Balearic Islands, Institute of Balearic Studies | Palma de Mallorca, 2015
  • Casa Asia, Chinese Cultural Center in Madrid, Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur eV Bonn. Palma City Council, Casal Solleric, Banco Santander Foundation.
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This book covers the development of the project “The Tree and the Shadow” by Ricard Chiang, which may seem more related to poetry than to the visual arts. The artist explores the aesthetic experience derived from the relationship between art and nature based on his most recent production. Chiang gets up and goes to bed watching the sun rise and die every day, and his work is divided between the studio-workshop and the field. Likewise, he uses the resources that he has at his disposal to formalize a work in which art and nature are inseparable. In natural beauty, he finds the reason for existence and the reason for an artistic practice that he has been developing for more than two decades in the same place where he built the house where he lives. He thus recovers his origins, through this spatial representation of the landscape, rediscovering traditional Chinese landscape painting. Chiang communicates with the landscape to receive the soul or spirit that moves nature and the seasons, and at the same time makes an appropriation of it to represent the emptiness in the sky, the earth, the water and the clouds.

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