''The Enduring Passion for Ink: Films on Contemporary Ink Painters'' is a 2013 documentary film independently produced by scholar-curator Britta Erickson. The film features 10 contemporary Chinese ink artists at the vanguard of the contemporary Chinese art world today.
The documentary opens the door to what contemporary Chinese ink painting is to a wider audience and addresses fundamental choices confronting these leading ink artists.
Artists featured
The 10 artists featured span a wide range of ages, education backgrounds, artistic approaches, and philosophies. They are:
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Bingyi
# Chen Haiyan
# Cui Zhenkuan
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Li Huasheng
Li Huasheng (Simplified Chinese: 李华生; Hanyu Pinyin: Lǐ Huáshēng) (1944–2018) was a Chinese artist from Yibin in Sichuan province. He received his first art training in one of Chongqing's culture halls. He met Chen Zizhuang in 1972, ...
# Li Jin
# Liu Dan
# Wang Dongling
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Xu Bing
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Yang Jiechang
# Zheng Chong bin
The film follows the scholar/curator of this project into the studios of these artists where the viewer can watch as these artist's work unfold.
The artists share in the intimacy of their studio their experience and views on ink as a medium versus other art forms, their creative expression, and the boundaries and innovation of ink art in relation to the traditional with scholar-curator Britta Erickson.
Development
The film is solely produced, directed, curated by scholar-curator Britta Erickson who wished to create a project of her own at the time when she turned 50.
US-born Richard Widmer shot and edited the documentary.
Screening
The film has been presented at:
* The
Asia Society
The Asia Society is a non-profit organization that focuses on educating the world about Asia. It has several centers in the United States (Manhattan, Washington, D.C., Houston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco) and around the world (Hong Kong, Man ...
, Hong Kong (May 2013)
* Medienraum im Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin (April 2016)
* by The Ink Society, Hong Kong in collaboration with Duddell's (May 2016)
* MOVIE MOVIE Life is Art Festival 2016 (September 2016)
* ikonoTV (April 2017)
References
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2013 films
2013 documentary films
American documentary films
Documentary films about China
Documentary films about painters
Chinese art
Documentary film series
2010s English-language films
2010s American films