Work record
《重复书写《兰亭序》一千遍》Copying Lantingxu 1000 Times
在同一张宣纸上重复临写《兰亭序》一千遍，让文字性逐渐被破坏，转化为纯视觉的墨迹、抽象图像和书写的时间痕迹。Repeated writing becomes a measure of time, body, discipline, disappearance, and the transformation of text into ink field.
- Year
- 1990-1995
- Medium
- Calligraphy / Text, Photography / 摄影, Video / 录像
- Status
- Core facts updated from user-provided caption document and images.
过程与记录
《重复书写《兰亭序》一千遍》
Description
Editorial note for the rebuilt archive
《重复书写《兰亭序》一千遍》创作于1990-1995年。作品在同一张宣纸上对传统书法经典文本《兰亭序》重复临写一千遍，同时用录像记录该过程的前五十遍。
第一遍的书法仍具有文字性，其后文字性逐渐被破坏，变为纯视觉的“墨迹”，接近抽象绘画。第五十遍之后，书写已经完全发生在黑底之上，不再留下新的墨迹，书法成为一种书禅。
作品展出被写黑的纸本原件、记录变化过程的照片和录像。它把临摹、重复、身体时间、传统文本和图像消失的过程压缩在同一张纸上。
Copying Lantingxu 1000 Times was made from 1990 to 1995. On a single sheet of rice paper, Qiu Zhijie repeatedly copied Lantingxu, one of the most classical texts in Chinese traditional calligraphy, one thousand times. The first fifty repetitions were recorded on video.
The first copy remains legible as Chinese characters. With each repetition, the characters are gradually damaged and turned into visual traces of ink, approaching abstract painting. After the fiftieth copy, writing takes place on a sheer dark surface and no new visible ink remains; calligraphy becomes a form of calligraphic Zen.
The work consists of the blackened paper original, photographs recording the process of transformation, and video documentation. It compresses copying, repetition, bodily time, classical text, and the disappearance of image into one sheet of paper.
Themes
Source references
- User instruction, 2026-06-22: 第一张图是《重复书写《兰亭序》一千遍》的题头，1990-1995，其他的是相关图片
- Local caption document: caption 的副本.doc
- Local image folder: MyWork.tif/书法calligraphy works/1990-95 langtingxu