Living Ink Round # 1
US$ 6,500
Overview
This artwork was last updated 370 days ago.
2019
Ink, Ink & acrylic on paper
Unique Work
Dimensions: 175cm (H) x 175cm (W) / 68.9" (H) x 68.9" (W)
Diameter: 175cm / 68.9"
Note: Actual colours may vary due to photography & computer settings
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About the art
Artist statement
In a career spanning 20 years, Phénix paints today without constraints, freely
expressing influences from his triple cultural identity: Chinese, Bulgarian and
French. Experimenting with Chinese ink and paper and Western color
sensibility, Phénix’s focus is abstract ink aesthetics. He is determined to take
ink in new directions. He pushes, blows, and strokes the ink, imprinting its
movement across Chinese “rice paper”. The resulting compositions conjure
nature’s surfaces, landscapes, mountain faces, crevices, and rock formations.
Artist profile
Phénix Varbanov
Born: 1962
Hometown: Sofia
Based in: France
Trained in Paris, Beijing and Hangzhou, in ink-painting and calligraphy, Phénix Varbanov (宋小松 )works from his studio in Paris with frequent long-stays in his parent’s birth places of Sofia and Beijing.
Today, his maturity and dexterity in moving ink across paper evokes the work of Pierre Soulages and the influence …
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