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SUMMARY:Mapping a Modernist Metaverse: Gu Gan’s "Labyrinth City of Loula
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DESCRIPTION:The Labyrinth City of Loulan (Loulan micheng)\, now kept in th
 e Museum of East Asian Art\, Cologne\, was created in 1992 by pioneer Mode
 rnist Chinese calligrapher Gu Gan (1942–2020). Featuring pictographic va
 riations of ancient Chinese oracle-bone and seal scripts\, it exemplifies 
 the Modernist renewal of calligraphic arts in Post-Mao China. Relying on t
 he long-standing premise of ink-drawn brush strokes as unique\, cosmograph
 ic “mind paintings”\, the work expresses an artistic mindset shaped by
  and shaping the creative generation of Gu’s time. Its composition is\, 
 decipherable as a diagrammatic\, indeed cartographic spatial design\, whos
 e intricate labyrinth of written and painted ‘signposts’ emerges like 
 a visualized mind map of sorts: allowing us to navigate across some of the
  tangled historical and geographical\, epigraphical and archaeological ter
 rains of Chinese art. The presentation so maps out Gu’s work as a “Mod
 ernist Metaverse” themed on the ruined ancient Silk Road city of Loulan.
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URL:https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/events/mapping-a-modernist-metaverse-gu-gan
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