Hilde Mertens
Contemporary Chinese Calligraphy
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from Chinese Brushstrokes to AI Art
a calligraphy and ai Art panel
Jebsen-The Belgian Days
November 2024
“jian” the gaps in between
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To travel the universe is to witness the emptiness of all things. To find an open space in between where everything remains possible. To capture the essence of perpetual change. The moments of opportunity that appear but then quickly disappear.
Fu Shan, (1607-1684) warned “to rely on model scripts is to fall into pettiness” and triggered the seventeenth century reinvention of one thousand and three hundred years of legacy and convention in Chinese calligraphy.
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Set your mind free, explore, break the rules, liberate the brush and follow the universe’s ceaseless urge to transform the old into the new. Merge boldness with elegance. Reject formality. Yet always with discipline, unrelenting practice and study. Go back in time but keep moving forward.