Niu Bo

Niu Bo has left the ordinary career artist track and literally disappeared from the public eye for twenty years. He engaged in the most rigorous geo-spiritual travels imaginable after he took to Zen-Buddhism in Japan in his early thirties. Among others he spent four years in the Tibetan highlands of the deceased confronting death as close as possible. He walked down to Zhongnanshan in Western China where he recurrently spent several years at the place of Zen’s origin in China.

It was at Zhongnanshan that he developed his own technique of calligraphic abstract painting, mixing ink and silver or gold coated with a lacquer-type glue.

When he returned to the more mundane worlds of China and Japan in 2015 he brought with him an oeuvre of about 100 works, each of them being a representation of meditative insight and the stage of consciousness.