Born in Nanjing in 1953. Currently resides in Beijing. Trained at Jiangsu Chinese Painting Institute in Nanjing.
Liu Dan has helped to revive a millennia-old painting practice—the appreciation of scholars’ rocks as objects of contemplation and vehicles for imaginary travel. For Fresh Ink, Liu envisioned his most ambitious project to date. He has painted nine oversized portraits of the famed Honorable Old Man Rock, each from a different angle. Having assimilated the very character of the rock through painting the portraits, Liu continued with an additional landscape handscroll recording his imagined travel.
The rock portraits will surround the actual rock in a full circle, while the handscroll will be installed on a curved wall that extends from, and wraps around, the inner circle.
Detail from Ten Differentiated Views of the Honorable Old Man, ink on paper, 2010
Ten Differentiated Views of the Honorable Old Man, ink on paper, 2010
Photographs of nine views of Honorable Old Man, ink on paper, 2010
Ten Differentiated Views of the Honorable Old Man, ink on paper, 2010
