Noble and Glorious: Cui Zhenkuan Art Exhibition·Guangzhou
Hall 9/11, 3F, Guangdong Museum of Art (Baietan)
2026-03-20——
2026-05-11
Noble and Glorious: Cui Zhenkuan Art Exhibition·Guangzhou
Date: March 20-May 11, 2026
Opening Ceremony: 15:00, March 22, 2026
Venue: Hall 9/11, 3F, Guangdong Museum of Art (Baietan)
Organizers: Guangdong Museum of Art, Cui Zhenkuan Art Museum, Chang’ An Art Museum
Exhibition Director: Wang Shaoqiang
Curator: Wu Hongliang
Introduction
"Noble and Glorious: Cui Zhenkuan Art Exhibition·Guangzhou" will be presented at the Guangdong Museum of Art. This exhibition marks a retrospective of Cui Zhenkuan's seven-decade artistic journey, systematically tracing his exploration from traditional roots, using dry ink as a breakthrough, to the edge of modern abstraction. Featuring representative works from various periods, The exhibition focuses on his works from the past decade, in which his brushwork, structure, and spatial expression have attained purity and freedom.
Cui's dry ink practice is deeply rooted in the lineage of Chinese landscape painting from Zong Bing and Jing Hao onward. With a decisive aesthetic choice to reject the merely decorative, he pursues the essence of nature within the ultimate black-and-white world. His works deconstruct figurative landscapes into rhythmic dots and lines and spatial interplay, achieving a contemporary transformation of the traditional expressive spirit—"between likeness and unlikeness." The exhibition aims to foster a profound dialogue between northern and southern artistic sensibilities, inviting viewers on a visual and intellectual journey through the enduring vitality and modern evolution of ink tradition.
Selected Works
Tangled, Yet Unbreakable: Dots and Lines 2025, No. 1
202cm × 161cm
Dry ink and color on paper
2025
Dots and Lines 2025, No. 6
121cm × 97cm
Dry ink and color on paper
2025
Flowers in Dream, No. 8
168cm × 119cm
Dry ink and color on paper
2024
Wind and Snow in the Qilian Mountains: Stone Carvings at Huo Qubing's Tomb—Horse Treading on a Xiongnu Warrior
217×162cm
Dry ink on paper
2024
Wandering in Streams and Mountains, No. 4
122cm × 250cm
Dry ink and color on paper
2023
Beyond Mountains, Beyond Dreams, No. 1
179.5cm × 97cm
Dry ink and color on paper
2022
A Day in the Mountains, 2022, No. 13
232cm × 121.5cm
Dry ink and color on paper
2022
Traces and Rhythms of Ink, No. 9
179.5cm × 97cm
Dry ink and color on paper
2022
Travel Sketches in Shangzhou, No. 3
232.5cm × 119cm
Dry ink and color on paper
2015
Without Beginning and End
直径220cm
Diameter: 220 cm
Dry ink and color on paper
2024
关于艺术家
About Artist
Cui ZhenkuanCui Zhenkuan, a native of Chang’an in Shaanxi Province, was born in Xi’an in 1935. He graduated from the Department of Traditional Chinese Painting at the Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts in 1960. He is currently a Research Fellow at the China National Academy of Painting, a member of the China Artists Association, Honorary Director of the Chinese Painting Art Committee of the Shaanxi Artists Association, Honorary President of the Shaanxi Landscape Painting Research Society, Visiting Professor at the Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts, Painter at the Shaanxi Academy of Chinese Painting, and a National First-Class Artist.
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