Heart Sutra 《心经》
Xie Tian - Traditional Sensibility Awakening in Repetition
These works by Chinese artist Xie Tian represent new sensory language crossing time, space, tradition, and modernity. An artist who evolved from industrial design and architecture, his works contain both structured design and philosophical contemplation.
Traditional materials like ink and paper coexist with modern materials like acrylic and tape, showing amazing resonance between tradition and post-globalization sensibility.
Xie Tian uses "repetition" as aesthetic principle. Repeating lines, overlapping forms, recurring symbols create rhythm of thought and concentration of sensation—quiet response to traditional temporality.
Works like "Heart Sutra" translate Eastern philosophy's core into contemporary sculptural language through bleeding and overlap. Following pieces feel like giant geometric scores where straight lines traverse planes with ink traces inserted between.
Through repetition, the artist summons memory; through silence, opens sensation. His work makes us contemplate depth of time, existence, and sensation through visual practice of "repetition.“