About Ji Hong: graduated from the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in 1997; visiting scholar in the sculpture department of the Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, under Professor Li Xiangqun, 2010–2012; attended Professor Du Dakai’s first advanced painting and calligraphy workshop at the Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, 2013–2014; studied in the sculpture department of the Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University under Li Xiangqun from 2015 to 2021, receiving a master’s degree; sculpture assistant and working-committee member for the 2017 exhibition Chaotic Light – Liu Jude’s Art Exhibition; main participant in the 2020 study Practical Application of Art Intervention in “Beautiful Countryside” Construction. The Floating Journey · Imagery series: the expression of imagery is a way for one’s inner self to communicate with all things in the world — a highly condensed and unconscious expression, a projection of the mind into the real world, and a new and unique artistic world built by the artist with devotion.
Floating Journey · Imagery Series – Journey · Image
Material: tinted white copper. Created: 2021. Size ①: 90 × 68 × 52 cm; size ②: 50 × 38 × 29 cm.
Floating Journey · Imagery Series – Journey · Image
Journey · Image gradually fuses the form of the “floating journey” with the expression of “imagery”, achieving a presentation of the unity of heaven and humanity. From soaring to watching to “all things coming to life”, it unfolds in sequence, bearing out the value of ceaseless renewal.
Floating Journey · Imagery Series – Zen · Words
Material: white porcelain. Created: 2021. Size: 38 × 38 × 12 cm.
Floating Journey · Imagery Series – Zen · Words
Zen · Words: “Nature is visible spirit, and spirit is invisible nature.” Through creation, the artist presents spirit — invisible nature — to the world.
Floating Journey · Imagery Series – Floating in the Mountains
Created: 2021. Material: tinted metal. Size: 62 × 62 × 62 cm.
Floating Journey · Imagery Series – Floating in the Mountains
The human figure is simplified to a silhouette, a “floating journey” among mountains and water; the kinetic energy of the wind is turned into an unconscious element, so that wind sets every object in rhythmic motion in space.
