Suning Art Museum presents modern take on ink painting

Paintings, sculptures, videos and artworks generated via artificial intelligence are on show at the Inquiry on Water exhibition which is taking place at the Suning Art Museum in Shanghai through Jan 31.

The works being showcased were created by 11 Chinese artists who live in China and abroad, such as Hsiao Chin, Liu Kuo-sung, Wang Jieyin and Victor Wong.

Calvin Hui, curator of the exhibition and co-founder of the 3812 Gallery in Hong Kong and London of Britain, says the exhibition was held to explore the discussions about ink art over the past 30 years. He notes that while some have claimed that traditional painting is dead, others have analyzed the use of ink as a medium and created new terms for it, which include experimental ink, conceptual ink and even tech-ink.