QIN FENG (b.1961) West Wind East Water 0604, 2006QIN FENG (b.1961)West Wind East Water 0604, 2006Ink, coffee and tea on custom made silk and cotton paper, signed lower right, framed. 190.2cm long x 94cm wide (74 7/8in long x 37in wide).秦風（1961年生） 西風東水系列0604 水墨、茶、咖啡絲棉紙 鏡框 2006年作Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Made in China: Contemporary Chinese Art at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, September 2007-March 2008Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, China Onward: The Estella Collection, Chinese Contemporary Art, 1966-2006, Humlebaek, 2007, pp.224-225.Chinese Ink Painting Now, New York, 2010, p.121.Michael Goedhuis, Ink: The Art of China, Saatchi Gallery, London, 2012, pp.94-95.Michael Goedhuis, The Ink Art of China, London, 2019, pp.26-27. 展覽著錄：《中國製造：當代中國藝術在以色列博物館》展覽，耶路撒冷，2007年9月-2008年3月路易斯安納現代藝術博物館編, 《China Onward: the Estella Collection, Chinese Contemporary Art 1966-2006》，胡姆勒拜克，2007年，第224-225頁Michael Goedhuis著, 《Ink: the Art of China》，倫敦，2012年，第94-95頁Michael Goedhuis著，《水墨中国》，伦敦，2019年，第26-27頁Born in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in 1961, Qin Feng is an iconoclastic artist who is actively involved in China's avant-garde art movement. Being an eclectic ink artist, Qin Feng is committed to integrating Eastern and Western styles. Xinjiang, Berlin, Boston, and Beijing, places where the artist calls home, infused his artwork with a global perspective that led him to a bold and significant artistic path - extending the tradition of classical Chinese ink painting and calligraphy. From 1996 to 1999, Qin taught at the Berlin University of the Arts, where he further explored the possibility of the fusion of Western modernism and traditional Chinese ink. He used tea and coffee, two different beverages from the East and the West, to render multiple layers on xuan paper, which serves as a metaphor of the merge between the two cultures. The artist uses ink as the medium and calligraphy as the form, and also adopts smooth yet dry brushstrokes, creating seemingly powerful traditional calligraphy that skilfully demonstrates the freedom and agility in abstract expressionism, resulting in ink pieces that connect the past and the present. In the dynamic portrayal of West Wind/East Water, Qin simultaneously expresses the rhythm of leisure and the hysteria and explosiveness of ink brushstrokes, adding tension to the image while charging the work with contemporary vitality and poetic quality.Qin Feng's work can be found in several important and prestigious museums and collections globally, including the British Museum, London; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Getty Museum, USA; The Museum of Fine Art, Boston; the Guggenheim Museum, New York; and the Jerry Yang collection.