Ink Dreams: Selections from the Fondation INK Collection

Including the work of more than 50 contemporary artists, this book offers a re-evaluation of what defines ink art, arguing that it is not the conceptual threads of its history that define what contemporary ink art can be. While there are books on traditional Chinese ink painting, this unique book examines how contemporary art extends an expanded practice into the present day, displaying one of the most important collections of contemporary ink art in the world, from Dora and Gérard Cognié. Exquisitely designed and illustrated, and featuring artists from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore to South Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Europe and the United States, this publication displays one of the most important collections of contemporary ink art in the world, from Dora and Gérard Cognié. The gatekeepers who have tied ink art to the continent of Asia and prescribed a strict set of tools for its execution—ink, brush, paper, silk—are nowhere in sight here. Instead, this collection recognises a spirit of ink painting that transcends medium or place of origin. Ink Dreams seeks to delineate that spirit in the context of a contemporary, globalising art world, by recognising three major facets of ink art history that go beyond the tradition’s concrete attributes. Artists include: Bingyi, gu wenda, Li Huasheng, Li Huayi, Chen Haiyan, Lin Tianmiao, Liu Dan, Liu Guosong, Lui Shou-kwan, Qiu Shihua, Idris Khan, Wang Tiande, Wucius Wong, Xu Bing, Yang Jiechang, Zhang Yu, Zheng Chongbin, Park Seo-bo, Lee Ufan, Kitamura Junko, Kim Ho-deuk, Shirazeh Houshiary, Jorma Puranen, Matti Kujasalo, Ophélie Asch, Irma Blank, Michael Cherney, Shi Guorui, Hai Bo, Hiroshi Sugimoto and Min Byung Hun.
ISBN 9781942884989. DelMonico Books/Los Angeles County Museum of Art. hb. 256 pages. 214 colour ills. 21.6 x 29.9 cm.
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