Duanmu Stone
Dong Wensheng
董文胜
Production date
2010
Object Detail
Media
inkjet print
Measurements
71 x 91.5 cm
Notes
Dong Wensheng has also drawn on mountain and water imagery, so significant in the Chinese landscape tradition. In a series shot at Duanmu, notable as the birthplace of Zi Gong, a famous Confucian disciple, he has created lyrical black and white landscapes traversed by lines of light. Shot in black and white with a large-format camera, using long exposure times at nightfall, they recall the famous ‘Water Album’ of Southern Song Dynasty painter, Ma Yuan. Men Waiting for the Wind (2010) shows the backs of ten men standing motionless on a headland, looking across a body of water towards a mountain shrouded in mist. In Duanmu Stone (2010) we see a similarly bleak headland and spindly tree; the faint shadowy silhouette of a human figure is partly covered by the ripples drawn by the artist’s light pen. Dong’s ‘light painting’ references Ma Yuan’s use of ink and brush to ‘map’ the patterns made by wind and water.
Accession number
2017.099