It is the catalogue published conjunction to the retrospective exhibition Pondering- Pulsating: Meditation on the Oriental World 1988-1999 by Rolf A. Kluenter at the Liu Hai Su Art Museum, Shanghai from 12 to 28 March, 1999.

Rolf A. Kluenter has integrated seed syllables taken from Indian writing systems as essential elements into his paintings, is surely a result of his being embedded since many years into the atmosphere of Nepal in the Himalayas where traditional culture is tinted at the same time by Hinduism and Buddhism.

His artistic language essentially makes use of abstract coloured planes or wide bands which he combines in a contrasting or harmonising way into compositions, mostly using basic geometric forms like circle, triangle or half circle as optically dominating elements.

Artist biography is included.