LI YUAN-CHIA (1929 – 1994). Untitled, executed 1958, signed and dated. Ink on paper, 76.5 x 107.5 cm. Provenance: from the collection of Italian furniture designer, Dino Gavina (1922 - 2007). 李元佳 《無題》 創作於1958年，藝術家簽名 水墨紙本 來源：意大利家具設計師，迪諾·加維納（1922 - 2007）收藏。 Li Yuanchia holds an important position in the development of 20th Century World Art. Decades before the Stars movement brought contemporary art to mainland China was bringing cutting edge conceptual thoughts to the bridge Western and Eastern art historical tradition and contemporary practice. These works date from an important moment in both Li Yuanchia’s career and also in the history of the development of conceptual art. Whilst Chinese artists visited and studied in Europe in large numbers in the early 20th Century They all date to the four-year period in the early 1960s which Li spent in Bologna where he sent up a studio in the factor of the internationally renowned designer Dino Gavina, having arrived in Italy in 1962, where he met with Hsiao Chin, joining him as a member of the Punto movement. which sought to draw on the mindful spirit of Tang and Song Buddhism, which would rescue the post-war art world from the aimlessness and indecision that had resulted from an overabundance of movements. Li’s major contribution to the movement was his concept of the “Cosmic Point” drawing on Western spatialism, minimalism and abstractionism. It used only fleeting calligraphic marks and a limited palette, black for the origin and the end of all things, red for blood and life, gold for nobility, white for purity, and through this represented the symbolic image of the universe (or 'allness').