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Oil painting on canvas. Hidden on what appears to be an unadorned khaki beige canvas are the shapes of mountains and trees, subtly rendered in different shades of beige.

Oil painting on canvas. Hidden on what appears to be an unadorned khaki beige canvas are the shapes of mountains and trees, subtly rendered in different shades of beige.

Oil painting on canvas. Hidden on what appears to be an unadorned khaki beige canvas are the shapes of mountains and trees, subtly rendered in different shades of beige.

M+ Sigg Collection, Hong Kong. By donation, © Qiu Shihua

Qiu Shihua 邱世華

Untitled (No. 12) 無題（第12號）

1996

Though this seemingly empty canvas evokes elements of abstraction and minimalism, it employs the Taoist concept of nothingness rather than referencing Western art history. The meditative quality of Qiu Shihua’s practice calls for patience from the viewer before the figurative landscape—featuring drifting clouds, trees, and riverbanks—appears behind the veil of white. Qiu trained in traditional landscape ink painting, but after a visit to France in the 1980s he developed a disciplined approach that fuses elements of impressionism and Taoism to create canvases that drift between Western scenery and Chinese landscape conventions.

Mapping Chinese Art, 1972–2012: Selections for the M+ Sigg Collection. M+, Hong Kong, 2019. sigg.mplus.org.hk

Details

Object Number:

2012.819

Object Type:

Related Makers:

Qiu Shihua (Artist)

Medium:

oil on canvas

Date:

1996

Dimensions:

overall: 154.2 × 291.4 cm

Collection:

M+ Sigg Collection

Credit Line:

M+ Sigg Collection, Hong Kong. By donation

Copyright:

© Qiu Shihua

About the Maker:

Qiu Shihua (born 1940, Sichuan) trained in traditional Chinese landscape ink painting at Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts. His signature style drifts between traditional Chinese ink painting and western landscape painting. Qiu lives and works in Shenzhen.

Qiu Shihua Painting Visual Art M+ Sigg Collection

M+ Exhibition History

M+ Sigg Collection: Four Decades of Chinese Contemporary Art, 23 February 2016 to 05 April 2016

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