Zhongnan Mountain Rock 06
Feng Yan
封岩
Production date
2014
Object Detail
Media
Digital fine art collection pigment print on Hahnemuhle museum etching paper
Measurements
204 x 136 cm
Notes
The photographs in this series were shot in the Zhongnan Mountains in Shaanxi, where Feng Yan hiked as a boy during Spring Festival holidays. The faded red characters on the rockface in Zhongnan Mountain Rock 06 are by Song Dynasty poet, Lu You, ‘Hills bend and streams wind.’ “Where hills bend, streams wind and the pathway seems to end, past dark willows and flowers in bloom lies another village,” is one line of verse from a Song Dynasty poet Lu You’s “A Trip to Mountain West Village.” Feng says this means ‘restless landscape’. His photographs reveal every fissure and crevice of ancient rock forms, seen in extreme close-up, suggesting geological time. Feng Yan describes his approach as ‘slow photography’. And even though he says his response to traditions of landscape in Chinese art is one of ‘deep boredom’, these works recall the delicate brush marks of ink on xuan paper of the literati painters.
Accession number
2016.145