Wu Chi-Tsung's Calligraphy Study 001 is on view at the Haifa Museum of Art, as part of the group exhibition Crossing Lines - From Line to Thread.
Crossing Lines - From Line to Thread
Date: 1 August 2026 - 2 January 2027
Venue: Haifa Museum of Art
A line can be material, like a thread, or immaterial - geometric or imagined, like lines of longitude and latitude, or the horizon. It can be a sequence of points, a product of thought, or bound to physical action, as in calligraphy or dance. The exhibition is organized around this dialogue: a line detached from its ground becomes a thread, and a thread applied to a surface becomes a line. Its themes include Timeline, Horizon, Line/Thread and Identity, Story Line, Thread of Memory, Line of Separation/Erasure, Body Lines, and Lifeline, tracing this exchange across dozens of works. It is this expansive view of line and thread as fundamental to shared human experience across cultures that drew Wu Chi-Tsung's interest in the project.
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Wu Chi-Tsung debuted his new work series, the Calligraphy Series, at 2023 Hengshan Calligraphy Biennial. Co-organized by Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts and Hengshan Calligraphy Art Center, the inaugural biennial titled "Era of Principle and No Principle Interwoven", is centered on the development and future prospect of Chinese Calligraphy in the context of contemporary art.
'In this video, a length of a paper is attached to a modified treadmill. After turning the treadmill on, Wu uses a brush to write on the moving paper. As he attempts to transcribe the famous The Letter of Loss and Confusion (Sangluan Tie) by Wang Xizhi, the speed of the paper's motion makes writing futile as all characters turn out to be entirely illegible. The speed of the treadmill represents the rapid changes in the spatiotemporal setting. Not only is the brush unable to cope with the circumstances, but it is also incapable to engage in a meaningful conversation with the paper. ' – Curatorial statement by Hengshan Calligraphy Art Center
Text courtesy of the artist.
Images:
1. Wu Chi-Tsung, Hengshan Calligraphy Biennial, Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts and Hengshan Calligraphy Art Center, 2023 (installation view).
2. Wu Chi-Tsung, Calligraphy Study 001 (film stills), 2022, Single-Channel Video, 2 minutes.
Learn more --
https://www.hma.org.il/eng/Exhibitions/12309/Crossing_Lines_%E2%80%93_From_Line_to_Thread
