A dazzling pattern comes into shape by the skilled hands of Zhang Shuangmin, an inheritor of the traditional art form tangliucai. Years of practice has seen Zhang develop a strong leaning toward bringing out Tang Dynasty elements when practicing the craft of tangliucai, which was named an intangible cultural heritage in Xi'an in 2020. "It was so fascinating, yet a …
An innovative artwork featuring elements inspired by the Dunhuang murals from Zhang Xiaodong's Infinite Leaves series. In ancient times, the dragon-scale binding technique was favored by royals and well-off families, because it could shorten a book's length and make for efficient reading and indexing. Quite the contrary, it seemed very modern," Zhang, 41, originally from Zhangjiakou, North China's Hebei province, …
One of his pieces which features European artistic elements. It's the idea of integrating the shape of a book into its content that drove Zhang to design, in dragon-scale binding, Dream of the Red Chamber, a classic novel by Cao Xueqin during the Qing Dynasty. It has 120 chapters with re-creations of 230 images by the Qing Dynasty painter Sun …
