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Peintures de Li Jinyuan en Midi-Pyrénées
Textes et poèmes de Benoît Vermander
© AMADIO, 1996
112 pages / 21 x 30 cm / paper cover
Language : French and English
ISBN 2-9510684-0-9
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Peintures de Li Jinyuan en Midi-Pyrénées
Textes et poèmes de Benoît Vermander
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work of art is created in silence. Silence, however, nourished by exchanges and
encounters, by the discovery of others. Love or friendship
: that is, giving and receiving ; the movement of an exchange which
can never be interrupted. Exchange between one being and another. Exchange
between one culture and another. LI Jinyuan and Benoît VERMANDER give witness through painting and words
to what is, today, the encounter between China and the West. From South‑West
France to South‑West China, the trials to, St. Jacques and the Silk Road meet and open the path of shared
humanity. Within exchanged looks, mutual respect and fraternal searching, LI Jinyuan and Benoît VERMANDER
take us with them as they contemplate a world claiming new beauty with each daybreak.
LI
Jinyuan was born in 1945 in Chengdu, in the province of Sichuan. Since his childhood, he dreamed of
becoming an artist, but first he worked for many years in an aeronautics
factory. His determination and his great talent allowed him gradually
established himself as an artist. Today he is a professor in the Art
department of Sichuan Teaching Training University and has exhibited his work in many
countries. From September 1995 to February 1996, the Regional Council of the
Midi‑Pyrenees invited him to, stay in Toulouse, where his exhibition at the Jacobin
Refectory bas left a deep impression.
Benoît VERMANDER, born in 1960, Jesuit, is Director of the
Ricci Institute in Taipei, which specializes in the study of
Chinese philosophy and spirituality. He bas published several essays in this
area. As an artist himself, he continues to collaborate with LI Jinyuan as they exhibit their work together.
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