GU WENDA (1955 –). 谷文达

Forest of Stone Stele #16,

Ink rubbing on rice paper (edition 2 of 25),

180 x 97cm.

Executed in 2000.

Gu Wenda was born in Shanghai. In the 1980s he began the first of a series of projects centred on the invention of meaningless, false Chinese ideograms and has since then explored issues of meaning through calligraphy.