秋麥，張洪 當代 黃山圖 冊 攝影，水墨畫|Mount Huang

Arnold Chang|Michael Cherney

2012 · Album of twelve leaves; inkjet print and ink on Xuan paper · Asian Art

This collaborative album by photographer Michael Cherney and painter Arnold Chang challenges expectations by rendering a famous and easily recognizable site—the Yellow Mountains (Huangshan)—as a series of call-and-response abstractions between the lens and the brush. Cherney first took a photograph of Huangshan, then extracted from it a horizontal slice that he divided into twelve pieces (as seen in the illustration). Cherney then sent these pieces to Chang, who, after several months of contemplation, produced painted responses that run the spectrum from dry and descriptive to splashy and almost entirely abstract.

Artist

Arnold Chang|Michael Cherney

Date

2012

Medium

Album of twelve leaves; inkjet print and ink on Xuan paper

Culture

China

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Purchase, Brooke Russell Astor Bequest and funds from various donors, in memory of Donatella Durazzo, 2014