“Unbound”—free from constraints—is both an artistic stance and a state of mind. This exhibition takes it as its theme, paying tribute to the late artists BU ZI and YU PENG. Each followed his own path—calligraphy for BU ZI, ink painting for YU PENG—yet both used brush and ink as a medium of spiritual cultivation, transforming the foundations of tradition into a contemporary language and opening a dialogue that transcends form and time.

YU PENG moved along the boundary between literati painting and urban sensibility, creating poetic and solitary figures that inhabit a silent, profound realm. His characters, like wanderers, gaze into an unnamed torrent of time; his brushwork intentionally preserves traces of fragmentation and drift, like dreams that emerge and dissolve within the ink, reflecting the loneliness and yearning that dwell in the modern soul.

BU ZI entered the Way through cursive script, his brushwork vigorous and fierce, like the sudden crack of thunder, yet deeply rooted in classical principles. In his later years, he developed the “Eight-Stroke Rotating Script,” where multi-directional strokes whirl through space, turning lines into breath and pulse. His writing was never mere form—it was a process of spiritual discipline, transforming fleeting thoughts into the power of brush and ink through the constant interplay of copying and creation.

YU PENG preserved the depth of time through images; BU ZI expanded the breadth of spirit through lines. One moves, one is still; one surges, one holds—both seek a state of freedom within the space of brush and ink. “Unbound” is not only their creative stance but also the echo of their lives—within the symphony of brush and ink, viewers will sense how tradition is transformed into a contemporary spiritual narrative, and in that space, discover their own moment of freedom.