XIE TIAN is a contemporary Chinese artist recognized for its ability to skilfully fuse traditional and modern elements. He doesn’t hesitate to mix calligraphy, ink and paper with digital ink, neon lights, Murano glass…

For him, art has an introspective value, giving him the keys to spiritual liberation: the place and future of the human being, the duality between tradition and our contemporary times. In Xie Tian’s work, which has evolved from designer to artist, the relationship between man and nature, man and society, lies at the heart of his inspirations and forms the link with creation and art. Xie Tian conceives his works as a narrative, sending a message, questioning the past and the future, to be looked at and read. Since his earliest creations, each of the artist’s works has carried a meaning.

Time is a recurring theme in Xie Tian’s art. He seeks to demonstrate that our performance-based lives move too fast, that we no longer take the time to settle down, understand, reflect, meditate or cultivate ourselves. For the artist, it’s urgent to slow down. His works echo his reflections on time and our own longevity. He likes to draw a parallel between our human temporalities, dictated by political and economic stakes in terms of ecology, and the temporality of the matrix earth, which will not wait for our calendar to die. For example, the artist uses the ravioli, a symbol of nourishment, to denounce the way in which mankind is destroying the earth. With her stacks of white, hand-crafted ceramic dishes, the artist questions the relationship between food and the purity of spiritual rituals. In “The Burning of Notre-Dame de Paris”, a huge canvas painted in Indian ink, Xie Tian draws on the past to rediscover the history of this fascinating edifice and to write it into her work.

Ever since he “wanted to make art! Xie Tian is bulimic in his productions, motivated by the need for a temporal syncretism that draws a straight line between past, present and future. Thanks to his way of thinking, which integrates ancient and modern and is concerned with the future of humanity, Xie Tian’s art seeks to bring about harmony between man and nature, uniting like yin and yang, the realms of earth and sky as imagined by one of the great Taoist thinkers Zhuangzi.