PU TZU (Bu Zi)

Taiwanese　1959 - 2013

Born Chen Tsung-Chen in Tainan in 1959. Pu takes oriental calligraphy art as his own artistic language, uses wild cursive script to break limits. The core of his creation is based on ancient Chinese philosophy, followed the principle of “Skill & Tao.” The practice of skill helped him to reach the purity of ancient calligraphers, and then turned it into his own power. As life experience increased, this finally became the source of life.

Pu Tzu's passion for creative calligraphy art is fully reflected in a brief description of his own words (1997), "The Tao of calligraphy is the heart. Overall maturity comes when a calligrapher achieves fluent use of techniques and when all thoughts return to the heart. When the wisdom of life ignites ingeneous use of calligraphy techniques, a calligrapher moves in the world of ink and paper freely, carelessly and unimpededly with infinite possibilities." Pu Tzu shifted his focus to explore how a calligrapher uses the freedom of the mind to map out the aesthetics created by the dots and lines, while expressing the connotations of the text in full. Thus, Pu Tzu's contemporary use of wild cursive script collides with "traditional calligraphy" and brings the art of Chinese calligraphy into a whole-new world. Infinite comibinations of lines and dots bring infinite possibilities to the form expressions of characters. Lines and dots do not need to be "wild" because such aesthetics as "wild cursive script" are essentially "free in mind" and such freedom opens up the imepedence between the subconsciousness and the consciousness to allow full expression of calligraphy in its most native way, the expression of personality and a free mind.

Awards
1980 Gold Medal, The 21st Japanese-Chinese Art Exhibition
1981 Gold Medal, The 22nd Japanese-Chinese Art Exhibition
1986 Grand Prize, The 13th Taipei City Art Exhibition
1986 Grand Prize, The 13th Taipei City Art Exhibition