DSL Collection

?Jian Nan Poem?
Video work by Qiu Anxiong
This source of this work is from traditional Chinese visual aesthetics and situation: the relationship between the branches of the tree and the space; the flying and perching state of a bird; still and movement; emptiness and fullness. All these are expressed and tasted in very subtle changes. The work is away from storytelling with details. Using simple visual descriptive situations and music, it creates a special kind of relationship between time and space: where everything is between coming and leaving.



Animated Realities: The Art of Qiu An Xiong
"As Qiu's first foray into digital media, Jiang Nan Cuo takes its title from the poetic name of a metric pattern in classical verse that was distinguished by its starkness and visual simplicity. This brief film of thirteen minutes seemed to be a perfect distillation of the artist's visual aesthetic, displaying the intluences of traditional Chinese landscapes that were evident in his previous painted works. With its austere black and white palette and continuous shots of trees outlined against a bleak, motionless sky, it possesses an absorbing, contemplative quality with a power that arises from its pronounced 1Il1prctentiousness. Visually approximating the delicate asymmetry of it watercolour scroll, it is a striking meditation on the passage of time, and portrays an almost philosophical engagement with the natural world."

By Rosalind Holmes