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Grand Transformation No.12
Han Mo
2016
Ink and Mineral Pigment on Xuan Paper
68× 68 cm
Begun in 2016, Grand Transformation is the central series of Han Mo's practice over the past decade. Dahua — the Great Transformation — comes from the Zhuangzi: the ceaseless turning by which all things come to be and pass away. The series turns its gaze to the extreme: not a mountain or a river, but the generation and transformation of the cosmos itself. Each work is built from ink and mineral pigment on xuan paper, layer upon layer of sedimentation and crystallisation — azurite, cinnabar and ochre settling slowly in water, permeating one another until the image is not depicted but grown, the way natural things grow. Even a modestly sized work can take more than ten days; in that slowness, time itself becomes a material of the painting. Han Mo has said that the reds of this series bring him a meditative stillness and joy.
Grand Transformation No.12
Han Mo
2016
Ink and Mineral Pigment on Xuan Paper
68× 68 cm
Begun in 2016, Grand Transformation is the central series of Han Mo's practice over the past decade. Dahua — the Great Transformation — comes from the Zhuangzi: the ceaseless turning by which all things come to be and pass away. The series turns its gaze to the extreme: not a mountain or a river, but the generation and transformation of the cosmos itself. Each work is built from ink and mineral pigment on xuan paper, layer upon layer of sedimentation and crystallisation — azurite, cinnabar and ochre settling slowly in water, permeating one another until the image is not depicted but grown, the way natural things grow. Even a modestly sized work can take more than ten days; in that slowness, time itself becomes a material of the painting. Han Mo has said that the reds of this series bring him a meditative stillness and joy.
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