Seeing the Mountains – Traditional Chinese Paintings by JIANGANG SU
Opening May 15, 2024 7-9pm
May 15 – June 6, 2024
Lipont Gallery once again teams up with Vancouver-based artist Jiangang Su to hold a Chinese painting and calligraphy exhibition in summer 2024, providing audiences and collectors in the Greater Vancouver area with an opportunity to learn and collect traditional Chinese art works.
“Stone” is an important aesthetic object in Chinese traditional culture. Taihu stone is a stone with unique beauty. It is the beauty created by the uncanny workmanship of nature and contains the curious feelings of literati. The phenomenon of appreciation of strange stones existed in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and the appreciation of strange stones reached a new climax in the Song Dynasty (960-1279 A.D.) To this day, stone appreciation has always held an irreplaceable place in the hearts of literati.
Seeing the Mountains is based on the theme of scholars admiring stones, and the method of construction brush and ink is expressed in the form of tea scrolls hangings to create an elegant atmosphere in the study room. The calligraphy content of the exhibition includes simple and square official script and exquisite and elegant fan-shaped regular script, which is full of the feelings of Jiangnan literati.
Jiangang Su is an artist of classical Chinese painting and calligraphy based on Vancouver. He is known for his gongbi style paintings, versatile styles of calligraphy and seal carving. He studied in China under renowned maestro Yan Gongda from the age of thirteen. Besides being a dedicated artist, Su is also an avid art educator and collector of Chinese arts. His artworks have been featured in numerous exhibitions, charity auction events and media coverage in China and internationally.
The exhibition opens on Wednesday May 15th from 7:00pm to 9:00pm at Lipont Gallery, 4211 No. 3 Road Richmond, BC.
The exhibition opens from May 15th to June 6th, 2024 Monday to Friday 10am to 5pm with extended hours to 8:00pm on Tuesdays.
This exhibition is part of the 2024 Explorasian Festival.
【見山】蘇健剛書畫展
開幕：2024年5月15日7-9pm
展覽：2024年5月15日至6月6日
Lipont Gallery 於2024年孟夏再次聯袂藝術家蘇健剛舉辦國畫、書法展，為大溫哥華地區的觀眾和收藏家們提供一個學習和收藏中國傳統藝術作品的機會。
＂石＂是中國傳統文化中重要的審美物象。太湖石是具有獨特美感的石頭，是自然的鬼斧神工造就的美，也包含著文人雅士的尚奇情懷。在魏晉南北朝時期就有了賞玩奇石的現象，宋朝賞玩奇石達到了一個新的高潮。直至今日賞石一直是在文人心中有著不可取代的位置，
【見山】正是以文人賞石為題材，施工筆水墨之法，以茶掛形式加以表現，營造文房雅趣。書法內容有古樸方正的隸書，精緻文雅的扇面小楷充盈江南文人情懷。
蘇健剛舉辦1974年生，畢業於常熟理工工藝美術專業，專攻書畫，金石治印亦有所長。八十年代即師從著名書法篆刻家言恭達先生（抱雲堂入室弟子），並有多年豐富的書畫教學經驗。書畫作品被多家藝術機構和畫廊收藏。
