Kultur
4 Bilder
Yan Shufen's bird, icon for a better world
It is a surprising sight to see an artist practicing calligraphy of Chinese ideograms in preparation for her sculpturing. Not just arbitrary signs, which are enchanting as such, but signs that build in succession poems of the T’ang dynasty. The artist in question is Yan Shufen, invited by curator Marlies Lebesque in the “art laboratory” ArToll, in Bedburg-Hau, Germany. Originally from Beijing, China, she now lives and works in Belgium. Leafing through her digital portfolio one encounters...
