The creative practice of the Chinese artist Tsin Tson (born in 1961) combines the cultural principles of the West with the Chinese heritage, rendering concepts into works of physical material body. His pictographs, entirely different from ideograms and hieroglyphic symbols, acquire a conceptual status, breaking fresh ground in their calligraphy, both as concrete and abstract entities. In his work Thunder (1993), presented in the 3rd Art Symposium, Tsin Tson, who is dedicated to the natural order of things, presents a dual tautology. A bolt of lightning strikes the earth at the same point where the depiction of the bolt of lightning striking the earth shows a bolt of lightning. With this creative gesture that, conceptually, is entirely in tune with the Chinese culture and by using material that is unconventional in oriental art, the artist bridges the gap between the East and the West.
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