China: José Gelabert-Navia - Clamshell Box

- 20 original drawings - The beauty of regional China captured with exquisite mastery - Exhibition quality production - An homage to one of the world's richest artistic traditions - A remarkable artistic feat by a leading architect Between 1915 and 1917 the Russian composer, Sergei Prokofiev wrote a series of twenty piano pieces. While playing them for a gathering of friends, the poet Konstantin Balmont wrote a sonnet which entitled Mimolyotnosti which Kira Nikolayevna would translate as Visions fugitives. Inspired by these dazzling miniatures, I have assembled a jewel box containing twenty individual felt-tip drawings on watercolor paper capturing fugitive visions of China. For a country that has of late been focused on the future, I have been fascinated by the search for a true contemporary regional language in traditional Chinese architecture and painting. The intricate and careful composition in relation to landscape and light has been a continual revelation, as evidenced by the Summer Palace on the outskirts of Beijing and vanishing water towns such as Zhujiajiao, known as the "Venice of Shanghai." "In every fugitive vision I see worlds filled with the changing play of rainbows." Konstantin Balmont

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1946226564
• ISBN13: 9781946226563
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers
• Length: 25 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.4" x 9.6"