About Zhang Xiaotao - A Chinese Artists

Zhang Xiaotao was born on 1970 in Hechuan, Chongqing, China, he lives and works in Beijing and Chengdu, China. He is an artist full of enthusiasm and good at argument. He is so talkatively repelling that no one could plunge himself into the conversation You could also be able to read his articles about the paintings (See his article “The antibody of Paintings----, issued on the 4th edition of “Art Contemporary” of 2006), or retrieve on his internet bokee which keeps down his art thinking as well to detect out his idea activities and the clear logic of his language. That he thinks so deeply makes us writers who do writing as our profession feels ashamed. He is very conservative, low-pitched and introspective.
Zhang Xiaotao extends still the “feeling” of the 80’s which stands not for the individual entanglement of his psyche or emotion, but for the inner longings he sensed. This longing is the direct projection and reflection of the “reality “of an artist doggedly stuck to his art, and he confides that the modernism could envisage the real of life and the reality itself.
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Zhang Xiaotao

Zhang Xiaotao's Biography and Exhibitions

BIOGRAPHY

1970	Born in Hechuan, Chongqing, China
	Lives and works in Beijing and Chengdu, China

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS-

2006

· Beautiful Imbroglio, He xiangning Art Museum Shenzhen China

2005

· Dreamscapes Foundation3, 14 Bergen ,Norway

· Dreamscapes M.K.Ciulionis Nat. Museum of Art, Kaunas, Lithuania

2004

· Dream Factory-Rubbish heap Beijing Tokyo Art Projects Beijing

2003

· Materialistic Decay Gallery Akie Aricchi Art Contemporary Paris France

2002

· Desire Kunst Akademie Muenster Germany

2001

· Flowers in the Dream Tokyo Gallery Japan

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About Zeng Fanzhi - A Chinese Artist

Zeng Fanzhi was born on 1964 in Wuhan, China. In the beginning of his artistic career Zeng Fanzhi painted apocalyptic, expressionist images, thus manipulating modernist compositional effects to intensify his sinister version of reality. His representational work reveals the place of the unconscious, the aberrant, in the construction of experience.

The large, clenched hands of his subjects are almost more conspicuous than their stereotyped faces and wide-open eyes. Transcending narrative resolution, these images simply unfold. What Zeng Fanzhi re-creates in his art simulates the fatigue of contemporary experience: the rush to acquire and consume, just to the extent of feeling increasingly alienated and detached. Working in idiosyncratic ways, he reminds us how effective art can be when it collapses these varieties of experience.
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Zeng Fanzhi

Zeng Fanzhi's Biography and Exhibitions

BIOGRAPHY

1964	Born in Wuhan, China

Selected Exhibitions:

2006
• Zeng Fanzhi's Solo-Exhibition with New Paintings, ShanghArt Gallery, Shanghai,China
• Zeng Fanzhi – Paintings, Wedel, London

2005
• Sky, Fine Art Literature, Wuhan, China
• Zeng Fanzhi, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2006
Zhou ChunYa, Zeng FanZhi and Ji DaChun, LONGRUN ART, Beijing, China

2005
China, Contemporary Painting, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio, Bologna, Italy
Mahjong, Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg” Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland

2004
Exhibition of Nominate for Art Documentation, Art Gallery of Hubei Academy of Art, Hubei, China
Face to Face - Six Artists and one Era, Robert & Li Art Gallery, Tainan, Taiwan

2003
Left Hand and Right Hand - Group exhibition of Chinese and German
Contemporary Art, 798 Art Space, Beijing, China

2002
Paris - Pekin, Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris, France
The First Triennial of Chinese Arts, Guangzhou Art Museum, Guangzhou, China
Korean and Chinese painting - 2002 New Expression”, Seoul Arts, Korea

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About Wang Guangyi - A Chinese Artist

Wang Guangyi was born on 1957 Born in Harbin, China. He lives and works in Beijing, China. The paintings of Wang Guangyi belong to the category of Chinese contemporary art termed Political Pop: work that appropriates the visual tropes of the propaganda of the Cultural Revolution, reworking them in the flat, colorful style of American Pop.
To understand the works of artists engaged in this practice, it is important to recognize the significance and specificity of the images they are using to fashion their work. Without this knowledge, the work of artists like Wang Guangyi may be reduced to a mere aestheticization of the experiences of the Cultural Revolution, a view which threatens to limit the discussion of these works to their formal elements, foreclosing more important ideological and historical questions that must be raised.
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Wang Guangyi

Wang Guangyi's Biography and Exhibitions

BIOGRAPHY

1957	Born in Harbin, China
	Lives and works in Beijing, China

Selected Exhibitions:

2006
Galerie ARARIO, Seoul, Korea.

2004
Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland.

2003
Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris, France

1997
Littmann Kulturprojekte, Basel, Switzerland.

1994
Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China


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About Shi Xinning - A Chinese Artist

Shi Xinning was born on 1969 in Liaoning Province, China. Trained in China, Shi Xinning’s paintings are influenced by both social realism and European styles. Using the authoritative qualities of both, Shi embarks on history painting with a twist. Taking his imagery from iconic press photos, Shi’s canvases faithfully represent the world as we know it, the Yalta Conference in familiar 40s sepia tone, the Queen Mum in carriage emblazoned in newspaper black and white. It’s only on second glance that Shi’s alterations become evident. Nestled between Churchill and FDR and conversing happily with royalty, Mao takes his place amongst the great leaders of the 20th century.

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Shi Xinning

Shi Xinning 's Biography and Exhibitions

BIOGRAPHY

1969	Born in Liaoning Province, China

Selected Exhibitions:

2001
Fake Reality, Beijing, China

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2005	The Road Map of Painting, Beijing, China The Other Shore of This Shore, Pingyao, China Mahjong, Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland China Contemporary Painting, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio in Bologna, Bologna, Italy
2004	Landscapes, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China New Perspectives in Chinese Painting, Marella Art Gallery, Milan, Italy China’s Photographic Painting, China Art Seasons Gallery, Beijing, China
2003	Moyemode, Moyemobude, 798 Art Zone, Beijing, China China Art Now, Marella Art Gallery, Milan, Italy
2002	Contemporary Art Exhibition, Deduct Fabricate Copy, Beijing, China
1999	Contemporary Art Show "Out-of-control", Beijing, China
1998	Contemporary Art Exhibition, "In the City- Individuality", Beijing, China

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About Shi Jinsong - A Chinese Artists

Shi Jinsong was born on 1969 in Dangyang county, Hubei province, China. He lives and works in Wuhan and Beijing, China. Through his razor-sharp sculptures and related works, Shi Jinsong initiates a dialogue, at once menacing and ironic, between the forms of mythic Chinese culture and modern day globalization. “Na Zha” is here recast as the brand name for an outrageously unsafe line of baby products. Meticulously assembled in stainless steel from intricate mechanical drawings, they include a deadly Carriage; a sadistic Cradle; a sinister Walker; and a malicious, multi-part Toy complete with needle-tipped pacifiers and dismembering abacus. Baby Boutique confronts its “shopper” with a radically strange and seductive “product,” lethal luxury designed to reveal the forces that dominate our lives in unimaginable ways.
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Shi Jinsong

Shi Jinsong's Biography and Exhibitions

BIOGRAPHY

1969	Born in Dangyang county, Hubei province, China
	Lives and works in Wuhan and Beijing, China

Selected Exhibitions:

2006
• Na Zha Baby Boutique, Chambers Fine Art, New York

2003
• Too Much Flavour, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA
• Alors, La Chine?, Center Pompidou, Paris, France
• Artificial Respiration, Sanhe Art Center, Beijing, China
• Open Sky, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China

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About Liu Wei - A Chinese Artists

Liu Wei was born on 1972 in Beijing, China. He lives and works in Beijing, China. Liu Wei’s practice is uniquely varied. Working in video, installation, drawing, sculpture, and painting, there is no stylistic tendency which ties his work together. Rather Liu perceives the artist’s function as a responsibility of unmitigated, uncensored expression, tied to neither ideology nor form. Throughout Liu’s work lies an engagement with peripheral identity in the context of wider culture; his works often describe a sentiment of excess, corruption, and aggression reflective of cultural anxiety.
Liu’s sculpture Indigestion II is a monumental poo. Spanning two meters, it’s a man-sized statement of rejection. Crafted with comic exaggeration, Liu’s turd is both repulsive and compelling; leaving no detail to the imagination, Liu offers ‘too much information’ in the details. On closer inspection, half digested kernels emerge as hundreds of toy soldiers, spilling forth in an unmistakable sentiment of protest.
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Liu Wei

Liu Wei's Biography and Exhibitions

BIOGRAPHY

1972	Born in Beijing, China
	Lives and works in Beijing

Selected Exhibitions:

2006
• The 4th Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
• CHINAJAPANKOREA, Art from Japan, China and Korea, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaodengo

2005
• 51 Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
• Mahjong, Bern, Switzerland
• First Nanjing Triennial, Nanjing, China

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About Li Songsong - A Chinese Artists

Li Songsong was born on 1973 in Beijing, China. He lives and works in Beijing, China. His painting was the kind of iron candy boxes he played with when he was small. Its title was "Beijing Candy." There was another one called "Digging," which depicted some soldiers digging trenches. He painted above two paintings between 1997 and 1999. At that time, he just graduated from college and had not much to do at home so he painted those. This way of thinking was not especially active back then.
He made "Horse" in June 2001. He started to paint these paintings during that summer when he found some old photographs. Originally he wanted to paint something that had a certain distance from reality. He thought to construct a scene in painting, representing things or a certain sentiment from our real life, was not so interesting.
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Li Songsong

Li Songsong's Biography and Exhibitions

BIOGRAPHY

1973	Lives and works in Beijing

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS-

2006
• CHINA NOW - Faszination einer Weltveränderung, Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg / Vienna, Austria
• Mahjong - Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany

2005
• PICTORIAL DNA made in China, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland
• Mahjong - Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg, Kunstmuseum Bern Switzerland
• CHINA: as seen BY CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ARTISTS, Spazio Oberdan, Milano, Italy

2004
• China’s Photographic Painting, China Art Season Gallery, Beijing
• China und was mich sonst bewegt, Galerie 99 , Aschaffenburg
• Solo exhibition Belgische Botschaft Beijing

Interview by Ai Weiwei, Feng Boyi and Li Songsong

Ai Weiwei: Could you tell me when you started to paint in this style? In 2001, I saw the exhibition you had in a bar.
Li Songsong: What I painted was the kind of iron candy boxes we played with when I was small. Its title was "Beijing Candy." There was another one called "Digging," which depicted some soldiers digging trenches.

Ai Weiwei: Were you already painting in this style back then?
Li Songsong: Not really. The two paintings I mentioned above were done between 1997 and 1999. At that time, I just graduated from college and had not much to do at home so I painted those. This way of thinking was not especially active back then.

Ai Weiwei: The "Horse" installation that you made in Qinghua Art Academy; was it done before those paintings or after?
Li Songsong: It was before. I made "Horse" in June 2001. I started to paint these paintings during that summer when I found some old photographs.

Ai Weiwei: What was your initial thinking?
Li Songsong: Originally I wanted to paint something that had a certain distance from reality. I thought to construct a scene in painting, representing things or a certain sentiment from our real life, was not so interesting.

Feng Boyi: Have you always been interested in old photographs dealing with historical topics? How have you singled out those images that you need from a large number of old pictures? Why have you chosen topics of historical scenes and events ranging from during the revolutionary war period to after the founding of the People's Republic of China; including photographs of historical moments during the Culture Revolution, with such recognizable icons as the Conference Assembly Room to the dome of the People's Conference Hall? You don't simply use these images as historical evidences; do you consider these images as a mirror that reflects the ideology of the people at that time?

Li Songsong: Not really. The painting of the soldiers digging the trench, for example, was a picture I saw by chance. I felt attracted to the process of looking at photographs. When we look at pictures in a book, we usually turn them over when we understand the meaning in them. I painted this picture probably because I looked at it so closely. It was a very plain photograph: some people in uniform were digging into the earth on a wasteland. After I read the explanation, I realized that the people were voluntary soldiers digging a trench during the Korean War. If you look at an image long enough, you will discover other meanings in it. I've also painted images from TV, the portrait of the late Deng XiaoPing for example. At the time when he passed his portrait was on TV every day. I took a picture of his portrait and painted it. But I didn't continue with this kind of topics, including the one of the candy box. Perhaps I wanted to paint some existing and ready-made things at that time. But I didn't want to sketch a person in a conventional type of space. I wanted the original image to be something one dimensional.

Ai Weiwei: You do not have so much interest in directly taking from reality to put into paintings. Li Songsong: I find it unnecessary. There are better approaches, photography and video for example. Just looking at live things is simply more fun. I feel that when it comes to this aspect of representing reality, painting is rather powerless.

Ai Weiwei: So when you have a photograph or a candy box in front of you, what kind of possibility would it give you? You said that painting is ineffective in faithfully representing a three-dimensional thing, what difference then would this style of painting make?
Li Songsong: I feel that it is at least equal. That is to say, the origin is something flat, something ready-made. Painting is also such a trace, of the same kind, on one dimension.

Li Songsong: A trace on one dimension. Besides, it doesn't have to be judged by aesthetic principles. There is no need to decide on the space, or to make a choice. (All you have to do is) to place something on the top. It is already responsible for itself. You simply complete? Li Songsong: Maybe it's like reading. Simply rereading it again.

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About Feng Zhengjie – A Chinese Artists

Feng Zhengjie was born on 1968 in Sichuan Province, China he lives and works in Beijing, China. When Zeng Fanzhi was at school (1987-91), he particularly liked the work of the German Expressionist painters. In the third year of his studies, he put Soviet Realism aside and began to explore expressionistic approaches to painting. His works of this period have further echoes of another of his favorite artists, Beckman, but when it came to creating work for his degree show, the Xiehe series, Zeng Fanzhi had already established his own style and the impact of the work had won him a strong reputation in Chinese art circles...
Feng Zhengjie paints striking contemporary women. With their colored hair, richly hued clothes and luscious, expressive lips, the women appear irresistibly dazzling. And yet, the wandering expressions in their eyes render them elusive and enigmatic.
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Feng Zhengjie

Feng Zhengjie's Biography and Exhibitions

BIOGRAPHY

1968	Born in Sichuan Province, China
	Lives and works in Beijing, China

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS-

2004
• Kitsch as A Face of Chinese Society, Vanessa Art House, Jakarta, Indonesia
• Soobin Art Gallery, Singapore the Beautiful Poison, Suka Art Space, Korea

2003
• Regards vers l'Est, Regards vers l"oust, Albert Benamou Gallery, Paris, France

2002
• Paintings of Feng Zhengjie, M.K. Ciurlionis National Museum of Art, Kaunas, Lithuania Packaging, Xin Dong CHENG's Space for International Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

2001
• Coolness, Common Ground Art Gallery, Windsor, Canada

1996
• Recounting of Skin, Art Museum of Capital Normal University, Beijing, China

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007
Red Hot: Contemporary Asian Art Rising, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
Thermocline of Art-New Asian Waves, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
China Onward, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebak, Denmark
Starting from the Southwest-Exhibition of Contemporary Art in Southwest China, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Chinese Contemporary SOCART, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia

2006
Varied Images, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
The Node of Art, Tan Guobin Contemporary Art Museum, Changsha, China
Basel International Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery HYUNDAI, Basel, Switzerland
Jiang Hu: Part I, Tilton Gallery, Kustera Tilton Gallery, New York. Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles,
USA
Beyond the Canvas, Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Four&Gate, Gallery Gate, Beijing, China
1st Annual Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, The China Millennium Monument, Beijing,
China
Vanity Beauties, Marella Gallery, Beijing, China

2005
Good Girls – Bad Girls, The Red Mansion Foundation, London, UK
Grounding Reality -- Chinese Contemporary Art, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Made In China, Willem Kerseboom Fine Art, Bergen, Netherlands
Challenging the Traditional Visual Limits, Shine Art Space, Shanghai, China
Beauty, Rudolf Budja Gallery, Salzburg, Austria
Chinese Contemporary Painting, Palazzo Bricherasio, Torino, Italy
Prague Biennale 2, Prague, Czechoslovakia
ARCO’05, Juan Carlos I Exhibition Centre, Madrid, Spain
China Contemporary Painting, Fondazione Cassa Di Risparmioin Bologna, Italy

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About Li Qing - A Chinese Artists

Li Qing was born on 1981 in Huzhou, Zhejiang province, China. He is a graduate student at China Academy of Art and one of the representatives of this new generation. Over the last few years his art has been included many important exhibitions and rewarded several grants and awards, due to his excellence of performance - the mastery of refined and personal technique, the wide social concerns, and the appropriate representation. Executed in the very traditional medium of oil on canvas, the generally mid-size paintings are usually paired pictures. Li Qing is making a simple and easily accessible visual world where audience may exchange idea and share a common feeling. Many of the prototypes of contemporary Chinese art were heavy in their subject matter in order to express artists’ negative attitude towards the current corruptive system.
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Li Qing

Li Qing's Biography and Exhibitions

BIOGRAPHY

1981	Born in Huzhou, Zhejiang, Chin

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS-

2006

1) See the luck when raise head, Hangzhou 2006 Contemporary Art Exhibition, Hangzhou, China 2 See the luck when open the door, Wuxi Contemporary Art Exhibition tour, Wuxi, China
3) Body on the Site, The Third Beijing International Gallery Exposition, Beijing, China
4) Tu Hongtao, Li Qing two persons' show, Line Gallery, Yan Huang Museum, Beijing, China
6) 10+10, Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China Chinese contemporary 7) Paintings, Nanjing Square Gallery of Contemporary Art, Nanjing, China

2004
1) Concrete, Hangzhou, China
2) Art Shanghai 2004-Exhibition of works of young artists in China Academy of Art, 3) International exhibition centre, Shanghai, China
4) Layer after layer contemporary painting in Shanghai in Zhejiang art exhibition, Zhejiang 5) exhibition centre, Hangzhou, China

2002
Do we need to rebuild a Leifeng Tower? China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
Awarded Wu Fuzhi Prize

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About Zhang Dali Chinese Artists

Zhang Dali was born on 1963 and Born in Harbin, China. Zhang Dali has portrayed 100 immigrant workers in life-size resin sculptures of various postures, with a designated number, the artist’s signature and the work’s title “Chinese Offspring” tattooed onto each of their bodies. They are often hung upside down, indicating the uncertainty of their life and their powerlessness in changing their own fates. Zhang Dali has portrayed 100 immigrant workers in life-size resin sculptures of various postures, with a designated number, the artist’s signature and the work’s title “Chinese Offspring” tattooed onto each of their bodies.
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Zhang Dali

Zhang Dali's Biography and Exhibitions

BIOGRAPHY

1963	Born in Harbin, China

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS-

2006
A Second History curated by Wu Hung, Walsh Gallery, Chicago
2005
Sublimation curated by Wu Hung, Beijing Commune, China
2004
Chinese Contemporary Gallery, London
2003
Galleria Gariboldi, Milan, Italy
2002
Base Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Chinese Contemporary Gallery, London

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About Fang Lijun - A Chinese Artist

Fang Lijun was born on 1963 Born in Handan, Hebei province, PR China. The bald headed youth which first appeared in the artist’s paintings in the early 1990s has become Fang Lijun’s characteristic figure and has been widely interpreted as the symbol of disillusion, mockery and rebellion in present Chinese society. Later series include the water series, dreamlike works of swimmers, and gigantic, multi-panel, woodblock prints.Fang Lijun is the leading protagonist of Cynical Realism, the major movement of the post-1989 era in contemporary Chinese art. Cynical Realism, an urban based movement, developed in the aftermath of the events of 1989 which included not only the demonstrations at Tiananmen Square but the closure earlier that year of the “China Avant Garde” exhibition at the China National Gallery in Beijing by the authorities.
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Fang Lijun

Fang Lijun's Biography and Exhibitions

BIOGRAPHY

1963	Born in Handan, Hebei province, PR China

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS-

2006
• Kupferstichkabinett Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany

2005
• National Galerie / China Art Museum,Beijing, China
Art Cologne, Germany

2004
• Fang Lijun, Leben Ist Jetzt, Alexander Ochs Galleries Berlin,Beijing,Berlin,Germany

2002
• Fang Lijun,Between Beijing & Dali,Woodcuts & Paintings 1989 - 2002,Ludwig Forum for InternationaleKunst Aachen

2001
• Fang lijun, Asian Fine Art, Berlin
• Prüss + Ochs Gallery Germany

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2005
Kinderszenen - Child's Play, Rohbaukunst, Groß Leuthen Berlin - Brandenburg, Germany
Mahjong, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
New Work / New Aquisitions, MoMa New York, USA
Clues, WHITE SPACE BEIJING , Beijing, China
Sammlung Hoffmann Berlin, Präsentation 2006/2007, Germany
ART FORUM Berlin 2005, Berlin, Germany

2001
C’est Moi, C’est Nous, Galerie de France, Paris
Millennium Portrait of China, Bremen City Gallery, Bremen

2000
Portraits de Chine Contemporaine, Espace Culturel Francois Mitterand, Perigueux, France

1998-2000
Inside Out, Asia Society, New York, MoMA San Francisco, Seattle, Monterey

1999
d’APERTutto, 48th Venice Biennale, Venice

1998
Black & White, Chinese Contemporary, London
5000 + 10, Chinese Contemporary (London), Bilbao, Spain
Double Kitsch: Painters from China, Max Protetch Gallery, New York

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About Zhang Huan - A Chinese Artists

Zhang Huan was born on 1965 in Yang City, He Nan Province, China he Lives and works in New York, China. After he was born, he moved to the country with his paternal grandmother and three brothers and lived there for about eight years. It was in important experience as it allowed him to grow up with nature and develop a direct relationship with it, with no inhibitions. He only went back to An Yang later and it was a pretty radical move, as it's a fairly big city, about five million people. He moved to Beijing a lot later. The first years spent in the city were pretty dramatic. I was very undisciplined, especially at school and a terrible student. I couldn't concentrate; they were always throwing me out. I couldn't stay shut up in a room, I wanted to be free. So I spent most of my time alone drawing.

Three years in making, Donkey was completed in 2006 and was the very first mechanical installation Zhang Huan made after he transferred part of his artistic production from New York back to Shanghai. The artist was both overwhelmed and dismayed by the overbearing and standardized presence of high-rises in the city. Other works such as the well-known To Raise the Water Level in a Fishpond, which took place on August 15, 1997, involved the participation of other performers. Forty or more participants, recent migrants to Beijing from other parts of China, were invited to walk into the pond in order to raise the water level, an absurd gesture that nonetheless underscores the far reaching effects of even the slightest movement or gesture.
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Zhang Huan 's Biography and Exhibitions

BIOGRAPHY

1965	Born An Yang City, He Nan Province, China
	Lives and Works in New York

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS-

2003
• Bochum Museum, Germany
• Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin

2002
• Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany

2001
• Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
• The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada
• Museo das Peregrinacions, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Famliy Tree, Galerie Albert Benamou, Paris, France

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About Yue Minjun – A Chinese Artists

Yue Minjun’s paintings offer a light-hearted approach to philosophical enquiry and contemplation of existence. Drawing connotations to the disparate images of the Laughing Buddha and the inane gap toothed grin of Alfred E. Newman, Yue’s self-portraits have been describe by theorist Li Xianting as “a self-ironic response to the spiritual vacuum and folly of modern-day China. The Paintings, sculptures and installations of Yue Minjun always feature uniform laughing faces. And if these laughing faces are observed carefully, it will be noticed that these faces are the face of Yue Minjun.
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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS-

2004
• Yue Minjun: Sculptures And Paintings, Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong
2003
• Yue Minjun: Beijing Ironicals, Prüss & Ochs Gallery, Berlin, Germany
• Yue Minjun, Meile Gallery, Switzerland
2002
• Soaking In Silly Laughter: One Of Art Singapore 2002, Soobin Art Gallery, Singapore
• Yue Minjun: Handling, One World Art Center, China
2000
• Red Ocean: Yue Minjun, Chinese Contemporary, London, Uk

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About Zhang Xiaogang - A Chinese Artist

Zhang Xiaogang was born on 1958 in Yang Born in Kunming, Yunnan province. Zhang Xiaogang’s paintings engage with the notion of identity within the Chinese culture of collectivism. Basing his work around the concept of ‘family’ –immediate, extended, and societal – Zhang’s portraits depict an endless genealogy of imagined forebears and progenitors, each unnervingly similar and distinguished by minute difference. Often painted in black and white, Zhang’s portraits translate the language of photography into paint. Drawing from the generic quality of formal photo studio poses and greyscale palette, Zhang’s figures are nameless and timeless: a series of individual histories represented within the strict confines of formula.
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Zhang Xiaogang

Zhang Xiaogang's Biography and Exhibitions

BIOGRAPHY

1958	Born in Kunming, Yunnan province

Selected Exhibitions:-

2000
• Max Protetch Gallery, New York

1999
• Galerie de France, Paris

1989
• Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts,Chongqing

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