ZHENGHUI LAN蓝正辉 · 结构与重水墨

NEW YORK / VISUAL STRUCTURE & INK

Zhenghui Lan蓝正辉

Structure, Expression, Heavy Ink.结构、表现、重水墨

An inquiry since 1985, from hand-drawn structures to monumental ink painting.自1985年持续探索,由结构推演延伸至重水墨实践。

Explore the research ↓ 了解结构研究
A speaker presenting visual structure studies projected across a wallView full photograph ↗ 查看完整照片
Visual structure research · Presentation view视觉结构研究讲解现场RESEARCH IN PRACTICE

01 / THE RESEARCH

Structure as a foundation.结构,是艺术实践的根基。

Visual structure studies since 1985.自1985年持续研究视觉结构。

Since 1985, I have investigated visual structure and symbolic systems, building an archive of approximately 100,000 hand-drawn structural studies. A three-level classification system, including levels I call Guma and Tair, organizes this work. My research asks how simple elements generate diverse structural relationships and visual qualities.

This inquiry underpins my artistic practice, with Heavy Ink painting as a major application. It remains open to further exploration in AI visual aesthetics, model training and structure generation, as well as architecture and design.

自1985年以来,我持续研究视觉结构与符号系统,积累了约十万个手绘结构单元,并逐步建立起包含 Guma、Tair 等层级的三级分类体系。我关注简单要素如何生成丰富的结构关系与视觉美感。

这项研究是我整个艺术实践的根基,重水墨是它在绘画中的重要应用。这一研究体系保持开放,具有向AI视觉审美、模型训练与结构生成,以及建筑、设计等领域拓展的应用潜力。

Two selected sheets from the research archive.本页仅公开两张研究手稿选页。

Explore Heavy Ink painting ↓ 观看结构的艺术实践
Further research materials 进一步研究资料

The full research archive and methods are not publicly available. Further materials may be shared according to the scope of a collaboration and confidentiality arrangements.

完整研究档案与推演方法暂不公开;进一步资料可根据具体合作需求与保密约定提供。

Research enquiries ↗ 研究合作联系

02 / STRUCTURE IN PRACTICE

Heavy Ink painting结构表现 · 重水墨

Visual structure explored through ink.视觉结构研究在绘画中的实践。

Structure organizes expression. Writing expands from line to plane.以结构组织表现。将书写从线拓展到面。

Heavy Ink painting by Zhenghui Lan, 2020View image ↗ 查看全图
Heavy Ink painting重水墨2020
Heavy Ink painting by Zhenghui Lan, 2023View image ↗ 查看全图
Heavy Ink painting重水墨2023
工作室中的水墨作品,竖向笔势与浓淡墨迹交织View image ↗ 查看全图
A structure of gestures笔势的构成
带有原始水印的横幅水墨作品照片View image ↗ 查看全图
Selected work作品选

INK / SPACE

In situ现场

Work · 2009

作品创作于2009年

Selected exhibitions ↓ 展览精选
悬挂的大型黑白水墨作品与一位驻足人物View full image ↗ 查看全图
Installation view现场

03 / SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS

Selected exhibitions & projects展览与项目

  1. 1989

    China/Avant-Garde Exhibition

    National Art Museum of China, Beijing

    中国现代艺术展 · 中国美术馆,北京

  2. 2006

    Heavy Ink Painting by Lan Zhenghui

    Solo exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing

    东方欲晓——蓝正辉体量水墨展 · 中国美术馆个展,北京

    观众站在高大的水墨作品前,照片保留原始水印View full image ↗ 查看全图
    Exhibition view · National Art Museum of China中国美术馆展览现场
    人物站在大型水墨作品旁,观看墨迹与泼墨纹理View full image ↗ 查看全图
    Exhibition view · National Art Museum of China中国美术馆展览现场
  3. 2013

    28 CHINESE

    Rubell Family Collection, Miami

    Rubell Family Collection,迈阿密

  4. 2015

    Creating Identities

    Exhibition in Venice during the 56th Venice Biennale

    第56届威尼斯双年展期间展览,威尼斯

  5. 2015

    Mercedes-Maybach S-Class art presentation

    Dadu Museum of Art, Guozijian, Beijing

    迈巴赫S级专属品鉴艺术项目 · 国子监大都美术馆,北京

  6. 2018

    China International Import Expo

    Screen artwork for the guest reception, Shanghai

    首届中国国际进口博览会 · 外宾接待屏风艺术项目,上海

  7. 2019

    Ink Manifestation

    Solo exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing

    墨彰 · 今日美术馆个展,北京

    蓝正辉《墨彰》个展海报,今日美术馆,2019年4月19日至5月19日View full image ↗ 查看全图
    Ink Manifestation · Exhibition poster《墨彰》展览海报
  8. 2024–25

    The Weight of Ink

    Charles Chu Asian Art Reading Room, Connecticut College

    康涅狄格学院,Charles Chu亚洲艺术阅览室

Group photograph beside an ink painting at an exhibition in CanadaView full image ↗ 查看全图
Exhibition view · Canada加拿大展览现场

04 / SELECTED CV

Selected CV简历

Visual structure researcher. Pioneer and advocate of Heavy Ink painting.视觉结构研究者、重水墨的倡导者与开拓者。

Zhenghui Lan (Lan Zhenghui) is a New York-based artist, visual structure researcher and a pioneer and advocate of Heavy Ink painting. His sustained study of visual structure and symbolic systems began in 1985. Active in China's experimental art movement of the 1980s, he participated in the 1989 China/Avant-Garde Exhibition. His practice connects structural inquiry with expressive freedom, extending from studies on paper to large-scale ink works and their presence in space.

蓝正辉,现居纽约的艺术家、视觉结构研究者、重水墨的倡导者与开拓者。自1985年起持续研究视觉结构与符号系统,亲历中国“85新潮”,并参加1989年中国现代艺术展。其艺术实践将长期的结构推演与自由表现相结合,从纸上研究延伸至大尺幅水墨及空间呈现。

Education & teaching教育与任教

1978 · Graduated from Shenyang Metallurgy and Machinery College (later incorporated into Shenyang University)

1978 毕业于沈阳冶金机械专科学校(后并入沈阳大学)

1987 · Graduated from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute

1987 毕业于四川美术学院

1987–1993 · Taught at Chongqing University

1987–1993 任教于重庆大学

Research研究经历

1985–present · Visual structure and symbolic systems research, since 1985

1985至今 视觉结构与符号系统研究

2022 · Visiting Scholar, Vassar College (one year)

2022 瓦萨学院访问学者,为期一年

2025–2026 · Visiting Scholar, CAMLab, Harvard University

2025–2026 哈佛大学 CAMLab 访问学者

Selected public & institutional collections部分公共与机构收藏

Princeton: RO8, 2015, ink on paper, object no. 2016-555. Connecticut College: Song Style, acquired in 2025.

普林斯顿大学艺术博物馆:《RO8》,2015,纸本水墨,馆藏编号2016-555;康涅狄格学院:《宋式》,2025年入藏。

Group photograph in front of an ink paintingView full image ↗ 查看全图
Photograph with a work作品前合影

Critical writing & publications评论与出版

Liu Xiaochun wrote The Meaning of Volume for the 2006 solo exhibition and included Lan's work in Structure First.

刘骁纯为2006年个展撰文《体量的意义》,并在《结构第一》中收入其作品。

2013 · Lan Zhenghui: Unrestrained Ink Splashing · Hebei Education Publishing House

2013 《蓝正辉——恣意的泼笔》,河北教育出版社

2017 · Oriental Art: Masters · Special issue on Lan Zhenghui

2017 《东方艺术·大家》蓝正辉专辑

包含加拿大GOCA空间文字的艺术家与水墨作品照片View full image ↗ 查看全图
Lan Zhenghui at GOCA Space in Canada蓝正辉 · 加拿大 GOCA 空间

Brand art projects & collaborations品牌艺术项目与合作

Mercedes-Maybach, BMW, Volkswagen Phaeton and KITON.

梅赛德斯-迈巴赫、宝马、辉腾、KITON。

Projects include art presentations and brand cultural events.

项目涉及艺术展示、作品呈现及品牌文化活动。

人物、白色汽车与背景水墨作品的室内合影View full image ↗ 查看全图
Volkswagen Phaeton art collaboration辉腾汽车艺术合作

Grants & awards资助与奖项

2006 · Ontario Arts Council grant

2006 安大略艺术委员会资助

2013 · Crossover Art Person of the Year award

2013 跨界艺术人物年度奖

2018 · Academic award for art presentation, inaugural China International Import Expo

2018 首届中国国际进口博览会艺术陈设创新·学术奖

05 / ARTISTIC APPROACH

Artist portrait in front of an ink painting
Artist portrait 艺术家肖像

Making thought visible让思想可见

I seek a visual form through which thought and inner experience become perceptible. In Heavy Ink painting, broad brushwork, poured ink and pushed ink expand writing from line to plane. Weight concerns depth of thought, structural force and spatial presence.

我希望通过准确的视觉结构,让思想与精神获得可见、可感的表达。在重水墨中,以宽大的笔触、泼墨与推墨,将书写由线拓展到面。“重”关乎思想深度、结构力量与空间存在感。

Think deeply. Feel keenly.重思辨,好感觉。

06 / IMAGE ARCHIVE

Studio & exhibitions现场

Works, spaces and encounters.工作室、展览现场,以及人与作品的相遇。

16 IMAGES

人物仰望大型水墨画面,体现画作的体量View image ↗ 查看全图
Studio view工作室现场18
展厅中的大型水墨作品与前方人物View image ↗ 查看全图
Exhibition view展览现场02
人物蹲坐于工作室大型水墨作品前View image ↗ 查看全图
Studio view工作室现场25
三幅水墨卷轴悬挂在积雪树林中的现场照片View image ↗ 查看全图
Outdoor installation view户外陈列现场26
人物坐于大型水墨作品前,抬头观看画面View image ↗ 查看全图
Studio view工作室现场12
工作室中人物在画作前摆姿势,摄影者与观看者在场View image ↗ 查看全图
Studio photograph工作室拍摄现场17
画廊内三位参观者与背后的水墨作品View image ↗ 查看全图
Gallery view画廊现场05
室内立式框架中的竖幅水墨作品与旁边人物View image ↗ 查看全图
Exhibition view展览现场09
人物在投影展示的图文前讲述,保留原始照片边框View image ↗ 查看全图
Talk讲座现场23
展厅中观众走过大型水墨作品的照片View image ↗ 查看全图
Exhibition view展览现场21
工作室悬挂的竖幅大型水墨作品与前方人物View image ↗ 查看全图
Studio view工作室现场06
人物站在浓墨与留白交织的大型水墨画面前View image ↗ 查看全图
Studio view工作室现场13
观众站在长幅水墨作品前,展厅地面映出画面View image ↗ 查看全图
Exhibition view展览现场10
手机截图中的大型水墨与人物,保留原始边框View image ↗ 查看全图
Installation view现场11
人物站在横向大型水墨作品前View image ↗ 查看全图
Exhibition view展览现场15
人物站在灰黑色大型水墨画面前View image ↗ 查看全图
Studio view工作室现场16

Image numbers identify photographs in this archive.图像编号用于浏览与检索。

07 / CONTACT

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