Master class from Xiao Sueli, the best of thirty modern calligraphers of China

On 17th of May at 1 p.m. we kindly invite all the lovers of Chinese calligraphy and philosophy to the Contemporary Museum of calligraphy. This day the expert Xiao Sueli will held a master class on Chinese calligraphy and will represent the ancient Chinese treatise “Tao Te Ching” performed with special purpose for “ALONE in a BOAT reading Laozi” project. At the request of Mr. Li Hui, Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of PRC in RF, the expert has wrote 5000 hieroglyphs in grass-hand style. The book contains 81 calligraphic works and their performance required 1 year period.

This unique project unified three great masters of the contemporaneity and two great cultures: Chinese and Russian ones. The book has been created thanks to the co-authorship of talented people, skilled professionals:

• Xiao Sueli acknowledged by the state of Chine as one of the best thirty contemporary calligraphers of China, his works are considered academic and they have a genuine scientific value.
• Liudmila Kondrasheva, well-known Russian sinologist, graduate of Beijing University, Doctor of Science, Economics, employee of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies RAS on the issues of modern China.
• Fedor Koniukhov, member of Russian Academy of Arts, Russian traveler: yachtsman, alpinist, polar explorer, aeronaut.

This day every person will be offered the opportunity both to be acquainted with the authors of the project and purchase a book exemplar. The book “ALONE in a BOAT reading Laozi”, which is a result of synergy and synthesis of literature and fine arts, will be a wonderful gift to all the lovers of the ancient Chinese philosophy.

Date: 17th of May, at 1 p.m.
Venue: Contemporary Museum of calligraphy
Admission free after registering
All those who wish to attend the master class are kindly requested to have the materials and tools available.

Master class from Xiao Sueli, the best of thirty modern calligraphers of China, held in the frame of “ALONE in a BOAT reading Laozi” book presentation