Lim Tze Peng

登鹳雀楼 - 王之涣 (Climbing White Stork Mountain by Wang Zhi Huan
Ink on Paper, 100 x 100 cm

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About the artwork

This piece of calligraphy by Lim Tze Peng is an adaptation of the Poem 登鸛雀樓 (Deng Guan Que Lou) by Tang Dynasty Poet Wang Zhi Huan. Being the 236th poem of the collection of 300 Tang Poems, it describes climbing 鸛雀樓, the white stork tower, as a metaphor for gaining a deeper understanding and seeing the big picture of all things. This is a piece that resembles ancient stone carvings where Lim “writes” in the negative spaces, and colours in the positive. This results in a carved seal imprinted on paper, one of Lim's distinct style of Calligraphy. The poem reads: 白日依山尽 黄河入海流,欲穷千里目 更上一层楼 - 登鹳雀楼.



About the artist

Born in Singapore in 1921, Lim Tze Peng is one of Singapore’s most significant artists and a living legend. Renowned for his Chinese ink creations of post-independence Singapore, he also practices Chinese calligraphy. Alongside local and international exhibitions, his masterpieces are exhibited in prominent Singapore institutions and part of many prestigious collections. Lim has been bestowed several awards including the Special Prize at the Commonwealth Art Exhibition in England in 1977 and the prestigious Cultural Medallion in Singapore in 2003. In May 2012, he broke records with the sale of his works at a Christies auction in Hong Kong.

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