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2026 New Moons Ink Art Lecture | Lee Chun-YiSun 25 Oct | 2 - 3.30pm | National Gallery Singapore, City Hall Wing, Level B1, The Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium | Free, registration required: https://www.nationalgallery.sg/sg/en/talks/New-Moons-Ink-Art-Lecture-Lee-Chun-Yi-2026.html
“Seek first to be unique, and then to be excellent.” – Ink master Liu Kuo-sung once shared these words with his students, encouraging them to keep experimentation at the very heart of artistic creation.
As one of Liu’s most accomplished students, Lee draws on the traditional art of stone-rubbing and inscriptions to develop an ink technique entirely his own: by varying the pressure and direction of cork stamping, he controls the density and moisture of the ink to conjure layered mountain ranges.
This lecture invites artist Lee Chun-Yi to share his own artistic explorations and reflections in Chinese ink. Departing from Liu Kuo-sung’s pedagogy and ink experimentation, he will offer a fresh interpretation of a defining ideal in classical Chinese painting: “poetry within painting, and painting within poetry”.
*The lecture will be delivered in Mandarin, with simultaneous interpretation (Mandarin to English) available on site.
“先求异，再求好”——水墨大师刘国松曾以此寄语学生，鼓励他们把实验精神视为艺术创作的核心。
作为刘老的得意门生之一，李君毅的作品汲取了传统碑帖拓本的艺术形式，并发展出独具个人风格的水墨技法——他通过调整软木压印的力度和方向，掌控水墨的浓淡干湿，以此创作出连绵起伏的层叠山峦。
本次讲座特邀李君毅，以刘国松的教育理念和水墨革新为起点，分享他的水墨探索与创作理念，以及他对中国传统画中“诗中有画，画中有诗”这一美学境界的重新阐述。
*讲座将以华语进行，现场提供中英同步传译。
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About the artist (关于艺术家)
Drawing inspiration from the traditional Chinese arts of ink rubbing and woodblock carving, Lee Chun-Yi replaces the conventional use of an ink brush with small square seals carved from softwood, which he stamps repeatedly, dot by dot, to build up landscapes of delicacy and grandeur.
His work has been shown in the group exhibition "Lines, Forms, Qi: Calligraphic Art from the Foundation INK Collection" at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the 2025 Hengshan Calligraphy Art Biennale, and A Tradition Redefined: Gifts from the Li Family Collection of Chinese Painting at the Phoenix Art Museum. His works have been collected by the Ashmolean Museum of the University of Oxford, the Arthur M. Sackler Museum at Harvard University, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, and the Hong Kong Museum of Art. He also served as a co-curator of “International Contemporary Ink Art Special Exhibition”, as part of the 10th Beijing International Art Biennale.
受到中国传统拓本艺术及雕版木刻的启发，艺术家李君毅以软木制成的小型方章代替毛笔，反反复复以点拓的方式构成细致且壮阔的景致。其作品曾展出于洛杉矶郡立艺术博物馆联展《线，形，气: 书法艺术INK基金会收藏》、2025横山书艺双年展和凤凰城美术馆群展《传统新义: 李铸晋家族捐赠中国水墨珍藏展》。他的作品被牛津大学阿什莫林博物馆、哈佛大学亚瑟·萨克勒美术馆、洛杉矶郡立艺术博物馆、旧金山亚洲艺术博物馆和香港艺术馆等国际机构收藏。他曾担任第十届北京国际美术双年展《国际当代水墨艺术特展》的联合策展人。
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About the lecture series
The New Moons Ink Art Lecture series is National Gallery Singapore’s bi-annual programme on ink art, one of the oldest art forms in the world. Inspired by master ink artist Liu Kuo-sung’s epic landscapes and his various innovations in ink art, the programme embraces the manifold possibilities of ink – both as a medium and a form of expression. As the title implies, this series endeavours to celebrate various trajectories of ink art in its plurality and hybridity, just as the moon cycles through the multiple lunar phases. By highlighting regional and international scholarship on ink art, the programme investigates how the art form continues to be relevant today.
为传达与分享“现代水墨之父”刘国松大师的卓越艺术成就，新加坡国家美术馆推出新月水墨讲座系列，以刘国松大师《太空系列》中的宏伟宇宙景观以及孜孜不倦的水墨实验与创新精神为灵感，摘取“日新月盛”中的“新月”二字为题，探讨水墨作为一种创作手法和艺术表达形式的无穷可能性。《新月水墨讲座系列》旨在促进国际交流，进一步推广现当代水墨艺术研究，展现水墨艺术发展轨迹的多元性、多样性以及其现当今的关联性。
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