This is an uncommon calligraphy exhibition but the works on show cannot be created by common people. It is a miracle of life and art.
Mr. Zhang Xigeng, from Jiangyin of Jiangsu province, is high paraplegia due to a car accident. However, he takes calligraphy as his life and awakens the feeling of his hands with persistence to arts. After 4 years of unimaginable hard training, he finally finds his way on calligraphy creation and completes a large number of relaxing, unadorned, elegant works with new life imagery and motivational significance.
This exhibition will present the best works that are full of Zhang Xigeng’s reflections on life. Characters and ink reveal his innermost thinking, life pursuit and ardently wish to life. Like Phoenix Nirvana’s rebirth of fire, Zhang Xigeng’s works show a great momentum, primitive simplicity and grandeur that never had before. It is a potential and courage motivated in adverse situation, revealing a kind of dignity and an unyielding spirit of Chinese people.