Shan Sa "Time in West, Light in East"
Marlborough (Midtown)
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Born in Beijing, Paris-based Shan Sa is celebrated as both a writer and a visual artist, recalling that in ancient China, poetry and painting were indissociable and formed a single whole that was the heart of Chinese art. The exhibition will include a group of brush-and-ink works that were painted around the theme of her latest novel, "Alexander and Alestria." Using traditional Chinese painting’s brushes, pigments, and rice paper, Shan Sa presents the fabled landscapes on the route of Alexander the Great from Greece through what are today Egypt, Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan, all the way to Pakistan and India. Shan Sa’s paintings depict the cavalry charges, tribesmen, exotic plants and wild animals of Asia during Alexander’s time. In this series, she seeks to portray the historical fusion of East and West through the fusion of Eastern and Western colors.
[Image: Shan Sa "Forbidden River" (2007) watercolor on Chinese rice paper, 14 1/8 x 27 3/8 in.]
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Schedule
from July 24, 2008 to August 08, 2008
Opening reception: July 24, 6-8 pm.