When a Stone Collides with a Brick

Open：9.8.2007（Saturday）PM7：00
Exhibition period：9.8.2007 — 9.28.2007

When a Stone Collides with a Brick----To Yan Li

A large stone flying leftward
Smashes into
A red brick flying toward the right

Out of the impact is released
A huge and explosive
Silence

Shards of silence…fall down in pieces
Hard as diamond dust tempered in fire
Soft as powdered rock eroded by lightning
Falling in great swathes
Into the flow of turbid rivers
Transforming to objects like alum crystals

Glistening under the water
Like remnants deposited
By a meteor shower

It seems that a wish remains
For a new round of repairs, here in the water

To repair the sky that has been split into pieces

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　By Lo Ching

Lo Ch’ing(1948-), born in Ching-tao青岛，being the professor of art of National Taiwan University for over 20 years, has held many one-man shows of Chinese ink-color painting and calligraphy both at home and abroad, such as Landscape and Asphalt Road, Homage to Palm Trees, UFO and Artist ,China—A Broken Mirror, Landscape of Iron and Steel, Thirty Ten-thousand Series of Landscapes, Viewing Mountain Huang with a Mind Eye, A New Look of the Ancient Cypress, Cantos of Mao-yu Rattan, New Eighteen Dharma, Calling for the Ancients, The Songs of Traveling Stone, Painted Face Calligraphy… etc. With these exhibitions, he renovated the Chinese ink-color painting and calligraphy of the 20th century and opened a new realm for that of the 21st . His work of art won him numerous national and international critical acclaims around the world.

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From Stones to Bricks—An Answer to Lo Ch’ing

From stones to bricks, human beings have been on the road
For many, many years—and it was rocky
After trying this technique and that
Of hauling and piling things together, at last
They globalized a method to incorporate life
In standard condominium architecture
Complete with underground parking!

Stones remain stone, bearing aloof witness
To the complex manufacture of civilization
In the furnaces of homes and schools
Through the flames of politics and the economy
People baked into bricks
Try by every scheme they know to win
Their chance to be laid in a social setting
They must be neat and tidy
They must stand pressure from their peers
They must be in solidarity with mortar and rebar
They have long ago forgotten the natural nights and days
That go into the formation of a stone
To their way of thinking
Stones are specimens of failure to evolve

Yan Li is a painter and a poet. As a member of the group of artists known as The Stars, he first exhibited his works in 1979. And He exhibited first one man show in 1984 at people’s park in Shanghai, This is also the first one-man Avant garde art show after 1949 in China.? He belonged to the loose assortment of young poets active in China in the late 1970s to mid-1980s who are labelled "misty". Like many of his contemporaries, he began writing poetry and painting in oils during the Cultural Revolution. He has held many exhibitions and published numerous books。He is living in both Shanghai and New York now.