The exhibits at the INK Studio Photo: Courtesy of INK Studio

The exhibits at the INK Studio Photo: Courtesy of INK Studio

The exhibits at the INK Studio Photo: Courtesy of INK Studio

The INK Studio at Beijing's Caochangdi art zone is hosting an exhibition featuring works from Japanese calligrapher Inoue Yuichi and Chinese painter Li Huasheng. A selection of Li's landscape paintings are on display together with Inoue Yuichi's calligraphy works.

The Japanese artist has developed his own theory of calligraphy: "At its core, calligraphy brings linguistic meaning, sound, symbolic picturing and expressive gesture together into a unified expression; in addition, because everyone in society can write, calligraphy is the art form that is closest to people's lives.�?

Li started his early career off as a traditional landscape artist but later developed an entirely novel, unprecedented practice as an ink artist in which he hand-limns vast grids of horizontal and vertical lines to capture and record the moment-by-moment state of his body, perceptions, feelings, emotions and thoughts.

The exhibition is set to run until August 1.