Qiu
Zhijie

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A contemporary Chinese artist practicing primarily through the mediums of photography and video, Qiu Zhijie’s work highlights the tension between the forces of destiny and free will, with other common themes including transience and social fragmentation.

« I plan to map the world »
- Qiu Zhijie

Tattoo 3

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China / male artist / New Media Art / Gestural / Light and Space / Chinese Contemporary art / Conceptual art / Contemporary Art

One of his most popular works, Propagator in the Darkness, is heavily centred around the idea of transience and depicts a skeleton yelling through a megaphone from the inside of a bell – Qiu has commented on this piece and explained: “No one can see him or hear him...For me this is about sounds disappearing, about the past disappearing.”

« I don't only teach art history, i also have a course about Chinese social thought »

- Qiu Zhijie

Zhijie’s work has also taken form through calligraphy-based practice; one of his most notable works saw him recreating a 4th-century Chinese calligraphic work around 4000 times on one piece of paper across the course of seven years.

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Qiu Zhijie

Tattoo 3, 2000

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What is Gestural?

Gestural is a term which describes painting with freely sweeping brush strokes. The main goal of gestural art was to allow the artist to physically portray emotional impulses. Viewers were thought to understand inner artistic thoughts revealed through the varied, yet expressive paint marks.

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