Chinese artist Yuan Yuan is known on the international art scene thanks to his distinctive paintings, focused on architectural subjects and executed with impeccable technique. They convey a unique atmosphere, that is materialized in the poetic of memory.
Confessionary II, 2013, oil on linen
Zheijang hometown
Yuan Yuan born in 1973 in Zhejiang province and studied in the Oil Painting Department of the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou. Where he gained a graduation in Fine Arts in 1996 and a Master in Fine Arts in 2008. When YuanYuan was studying there, while Chinese society was still very conservative. The Academy was “like a sunroof, always open for us” . And he benefited from a library well stocked with foreign periodicals. Currently lives and works in Hangzhou and Berlin.
His work is heavily influenced by traditional Chinese painting, which she studied when he was a secondary school student. Also, the painter was inspirited by Western artist such as Richard Long (Land Art) and Felix Gonzalez-Torres (Conceptual Art).
Breakfast, 2013, oil on canvas.
YuanYuan subjects are mainly interiors and these are based on real places, with some imaginary elements added. Sometimes he also manipulates architectural details and as a result the scenes . He depicts seem to lie somewhere between reality and illusion.
All Yuan Yuan’s paintings share a sense of abandonment, offering just a glimpse of their former glory.
The artist said
“Ruins give us a sense of security, they are living spaces without .A sense of pressure so you can do whatever you want. Abandoned places are also public, meaning that you may enter and visit. This is similar to the process of a viewer who is looking at an artwork. I am trying my best to identify the residual traces left behind – not so much what the place has now.But rather what this place used to be for a long time, which no one can take away and cannot be seen. “
YuanYuan, A Home for Home, 2012, oil on canvas
YuanYuan, Fairy Dream Liner 3, 2008, oil on canvas
Paintings composition are highly structured and orderly, dictated by the geometric details of the architecture depicted. what sets Yuan Yuan’s paintings is the incredible detail with which he describes every individual surface within the composition. In particular, She is fascinated by mosaics and patterns of tiles, whether on floors, walls, or lining pools and showers.
He is able to play with an infinite variety of hues within the same color scheme to produce a stunning effect. The atmosphere often feels humid in his paintings, with water in pools or dripping from .the ceiling or decaying walls, and the mood is melancholy. In order to achieve the effect of wet surfaces, he applies several layers of diluted pigment. A classical Chinese painting technique.
Yuan Yuan, Meteoric Water, 2011, acrylic on canvas
Yuan Yuan, Swimming Pool II, 2010, oil on canvas
At first glance, Yuan Yuan’s paintings seem devoid of any human presence. This is not quite true. She wants to represent people by depicting traces of human activity, which heighten our curiosity.
Thus, She also conveys a sense of passing time, of transition and history.
Born in Guangzhou in 1964, Guangdong Province, China, Lin Yilin studied sculpture at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, graduating in 1987. Lin Yilin through performance found his way to think about present.
His poetics are expressed through urban interventions and site specific performances. It draws on China’s socio-economic conditions, political landscape and cultural experiences; reinvents the relationships between communities and environments in a globalized context.
Lin Yilin through performance uses his experiences as an immigrant to the United States as a starting point for many of his works.
Lin Yilin during a performance
Safely Manuevering across Linhe Road
Lin became known for his installations made with stackable bricks inserted in an urban context, thanks also to his involvement in the Big Tail Elephant Working Group, which founded in 1990 was fundamental for a reflection on the state of China’s urban development. Lin’s best-known work is in fact “Safely Manuevering across Linhe Road” (1995), where the artist moved a pile of bricks across a main road in Guangzhou for ninety minutes. He built a brick wall on the side of the road and then removed it row by row and reassembled it in the middle of the street. Repeating the same gesture, he brought the wall across the street. This performance turned a stable wall into a moving wall and also stopped heavy traffic.
Lin Yilin performing “Safely Maneuvering across Line Road”
Symbolically, the brick for Lin is linked to architectural construction and destruction, it also indicates urbanization and social transformation. The artist intervened on a public site with his body and represented the rapid urbanization which we easily forget despite being very evident.
In the serie titled “Dreams”, Chinese sculptor Wang Ruilin creates surreal animals with a particular features: on their backs – and sometimes on their antlers – these creatures carry monumental elements of nature like lakes and mountain cliffs. It’s like a modern animal-version of Noah’s Arc without people.
“Dreams Ark1”, Wang Ruilin
“Dreams Floating1”, Wang Ruilin
Wang Ruilin is a talented Chinese sculptor, born in 1985 in Anshan, in province of Liaoning. He graduated at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 2005 and actually lives and works in the same city.
Rui Sculpture Life
His sculptures are heavily influenced by traditional Chinese art and mythology. Indeed, his life changed at the age of four or five, when he encountered . a painting of a horse by the artist Xu Beihong (1895-1953). A traditional Chinese painter, primarily known for his ink paintings of horses and birds. Ruilin became obsessed with these vigorous animal and has ever since identified with it.
Horses became one of the main characters of Ruilin’s works, resulting in the series “Horse. Play”, where pours the lively power of the animal in different static postures, creating significant tensions in the sculptures.
“Horse. Play”, Wang Ruilin
“Dreams Horse”, Wang Ruilin
“Dreams” series are almost life-sized copped sculptures .And the artist describes their creative process as digging deep into his heart and excavating works that originally exist from various experiences.
About his works, Ruilin says:
“Pursuit of Dreamscomes from my imagination, which is the balance between nature and abnormal state. Animals in Pursuit of Dreams may not be lifelike for I wish to inject different spiritualities and. spirits of the east and remind people to focus and admire on . other individuals who are the same or even more beautiful besides themselves only. Pursuit of Dreams-ark is the work I was inspired in the moment of 2012 . when people were concerning on how to be saved and I make ark to save not only rivers and mountains of human. In the space of impermanent compounds, what we pursue may not exist really and we can only feel the value and force. of life when the doom is set. Just as the big fish that I compare to ark, it carries mountains and rivers with life and . observes the world with the soul”
“Dreams Ark2”, Wang Ruilin
Ruilin working on “Horse. Play”
Eastern-classical art also influenced Ruilin use of color.In particular he loves Chinese flower paintings . for their rich, bright and cool colors. For the artist eyes they seem deep, pure and full of profoundness and uniqueness.
The series “Dreams” was protagonist of ART Beijing in 2014.
Li Xiaofeng is a Chinese sculptor and fashion designer, born in 1965 in Hubei. His unique work consists in wearable porcelain clothes.
He graduated at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA)’s Mural Department, and began his activity as a muralist. Then he began specializing in sculpture in order to explore new concepts and expressive forms to apply to the Chinese contemporary artistic scene.
Li Xiaofeng
His sculpture-clothing project is truly original, both for the selected material and the idea of wearable “pieces of armor” that recall Chinese traditional works.
Li Xiaofeng’s creative process
Li Xiaofeng researches and collects fragments of ancient Chinese porcelain recovered from archaeological excavations, dating back to the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties: he models and polishes them and punctures them, then sews them together on a leather undergarment through a silver thread, creating a “porcelain fabric”. His meticulous work is a bridge between past and present and a sharp reflection on the concept of culture.
These dresses are fully wearable
Li’s Rearranged landscapes
“Chinese culture” is the basic breakthrough point in Li’s works: he feels a sense of mission for its study and he channels it all in what he calls “Post Orientalism”. Landscape was always a major theme in his large number of paintings created in the past but, instead of simply copying like some other contemporary artists, he had always the urge to rearrange it, in a dynamic dialogue with history.
This extract explains the reason why Li Xiaofeng’s calls his porcelain clothes “rearranged landscapes”:
“Since the time when it was the Mongol Yuan capital Khanbalik to the present day, Beijing has initiated its largest excavation projects of all time and, like a blue snake that has been hibernating for a millennium, the city is now stirring and shedding its old skin. It greedily emerges through the towering buildings, twisting free from the historical sediment of its ancient civilization. Blue-and-white porcelain shards that represent this civilization are unearthed in large quantities at the same time. These blue shards, bathed in the sunny skies of socialism and caressed by the contemporary cool breezes blowing from the west throughout the capital, assume a bewildering array of postures as fashion items entering the new century!
Xi Liaofeng at work
Among his works are women’s dresses, t-shirts and men’s jackets. His first piece in wearable porcelain fragments was “Beijing Memories”, a Mao suit.
MIlitary uniform
Lacoste’s porcelain shirt Li XiaoFeng
In 2010 the world-renowned brand Lacoste commissioned Li Xiaofeng a porcelain polo shirt for men and women for the Holiday Collector series. Unfortunately, a problem occurred: the PRC prohibits the export of ancient artifacts, including old porcelain shards.
Despite that, the artist did not give up and realized the porcelain himself, with the crocodile’s logo attached, and tore it apart only to recompose it into a Polo shirt, one of the most expensive and exclusive items ever sold by Lacoste.
Lacoste’s porcelain shirt-sculpture
The artist also released a limited edition polo shirt, choosing blue and white fragments depicting the lotus flower and drawings of newborns from the Kangxi period and the Qing dynasty. The lotus flower represents rebirth and purity while newborns represent fertility. In that period the mortality rate among children was high and this type of decoration was in great demand in the hope of being a blessing for children.
“Porcelain shards” polo shirt
Li Xiaofeng’s main expositions
2019
Dreaming of Crafts of the Future: Mongyudowon Unfolds, 11th Cheongju Craft Biennale 2019, Culture Factory C, Cheongju
2018
Cracked – Porcelain, Red Gate Gallery
2D vs 3D, Red Gate Gallery
798, We Are Back, Red Gate Gallery
2017
Red Gate on the Move, Red Gate Gallery
Contemporary Dialogues Between Fashion and Art, Zhu Zhong Art Museum
The Silk Road and Celestial Clothes, Taimiao Art Museum
Fusion – The International Exhibition of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing
2016
Red Gate: The Next 25 Years, Red Gate Gallery
2015
China: Through the Looking Glass，The Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA
2014
5th Tanwan Ceramics Biennale, Taipei County Yingge Ceramics Museum, Tanwan
ST. Start International exhibition of the Chinese Contemporary Ceramic Art, Today Art Museum, Beijing
2013
7th Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale 2013 Korea, Icheon CeraMIX Creative Center, Korea
2011
Ming to Nirvana, Red Gate Gallery
2010
Head On, Red Gate Gallery
Width Contemporary Art Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Beijing
ZHU YANING: My name is Zhu Yaning and I am 23 years old. I’m currently studying sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, and graduated on September of this year.
ART BAIGUAN: When did you start to learn and get in touch with art? Which was the original intention of learning art?
ZHU YANING: When I was young, I had a really interesting art class and slowly I became more and more interested. In high school, I studied at the CAFA , where I studied Western traditional art, with its oil paintings. At the same time, I was also learning the fundamental aspects of history of art.
ART BAIGUAN: What made you choose contemporary art instead of traditional art? In your opinion, traditional art has an impact of contemporary art?
ZHU YANING: I know how to understand contemporary art from the traditional art thanks to the opportunity I had of studying abroad. It’s common opinion thinking that I should be at home because of my young age. Teachers are basically relatively traditional so after going abroad. I began to get in touch with some new things, and learned the contemporary art of the 20th century and the development of Western avant-garde art.
Materials and themes are not really important aspects, artists’ point is completely beyond the art range I once understood. In the beginning, it was actually very overwhelming. Because there was always something I didn’t know about that I should have tried understanding harder. But than if you leave the past and choose new things.you will eventually find a path that suits you better. Although there are still many confusions, it is indeed more than just going abroad.
In my opinion Chinese students abroad feel themselves bound between their tradition and the culture they are in contact with. I later discovered that the concepts and knowledge of the traditional art that I have learned have already penetrated into my own thoughts.and will be reflected whenever I do what I do. But it is a kind of wealth for me. The most important thing is a relatively peaceful attitude to get in touch with new things. In this way, your artistic concept will become more diversified, which means more possibilities for creation.
Zhu Yaning
In fact, I don’t have the ability to define objectively and undergroundly contemporary art and traditional art, Some people may think that some avant-garde art of the last century can represent contemporary art. However, for some contemporary art practitioners they have already become a thing of the past. They are already tradition. In the second half of the last century, there was a conceptual artist who wrote a thesis on the topic of philosophy as art. This is enough to prove that the definition of art in the last century has changed dramatically.
Zhu Yaning’s ArtWork
ART BAIGUAN As far as I know, you used to study sculpture. Why did you choose to do installation art?
ZHU YANING: Because the content we are studying is within the scope of visual art. In which we distinguish the direction of sculpture, oil painting, printmaking and the like. But to put it bluntly, we have chosen a way, like a tool or a category. it’s not a transformation, because in the end all forms are meant to express what you want to express. Then the device is a language that I think is relatively comprehensive, it can create more possibilities. It gives you more possibilities and more ways to express what you want to behave,
Zhu Yaning’s Sculpture
ART BAIGUAN: What is your work expressing? How do you think about material choices?
ZHU YANING I just want to give the audience a feeling A comparison and a discussion about time. Time, such a serious thing, is gentle.I tried to make people feeling the passing of time the more delicate i could. This is what I want to do, but whether the expression is sufficient or not is still open to question. In fact, because I am also a young and new artist, I am not as comprehensive as the mature artists. I think materials serve to the expression, the choice is because it is suitable, there is no deep reason. The final product can only be said to be within the scope of my ability to express the content in the best way possible.
ART BAIGUAN: Which is the work you are more satisfied with?
ZHU YANING: My favorite work is the third one, made with an italian girl, Fiamma. This work is my first contact with the image, and through this work I understood that cooperation is a very important thing. Before this experience I used to think that artists were independent individuals. or that everyone has their own independent ideas,so that it is difficult to integrate with other artists. But unexpectly, in this work, we had a very good cooperation, so I am really satisfied.
ART BAIGUAN: What do you think about installation art, new media art and the future development trend?
ZHU YANING: Installations and new media will become mainstream, and any of these devices that serve the things of life will ultimately serve art. Since the art has broken every boundaries, we have been free to use any form and medium. I think AR technology and 3D modeling have been used a lot until now but both will be used more in the future.
This is very good, we don’t have to stay in the past, we need just to accept it, because it’s not that you use new things to abandon some of the cultural heritage of the past, so I think it is creating more possibilities, and at the same time the viewer also has a better experience, and it is still a positive thing.
Zhu Yaning’s ArtWork
ART BAIGUAN: Have you ever encountered difficulties in your creation?
ZHU YANING: The most difficult problems are still some real problems. For example, what kind of materials, venues, and equipment are allowed to be made and used but most important: the maturity of creation.
The difficulty I have encountered now is that my creation is not mature enough and my position is not strong enough.
Zhu Yaning’s ArtWork
ART BAIGUAN: Can you express your own creed or thought? Do you have somthing to suggest to younger generation who are still groping on the art road?
ZHU YANING: The most fundamental suggestion is simple: it is sincerity. There are many problems and as long as we insist on sincerity, we will be able to solve them. Sometimes we fall into self-doubt, we don’t trust anyone or we do not have confidence in what we do. But we can understandd whether we are doing this in good faith, as long as you are doing is in good faith all the things you do have value.
I got two advices for the young generation: the first is to look at the individual’s orientation, and the second is to maintain interest. If you are not interested in something you do not have to learn it. It doesn’t make sense and wastes time. Because many of the students I met in the art think, “Ah, this subject is just like this, it doesn’t mean anything,” because they didn’t feel the meaning of it sincerely.
Zhu Yaning’s ArtWork
When I first saw her work, it gave me a feeling of calmness and quietness. I was full of thinking about time and life. I thought she should be a quiet and mature girl. I can’t help but feeling that she is really a cute little girl. She has the characteristics of not following the trend and the ones of being alone and not alone at the same time.
Isn’t this the quality and attitude that the new young artists?
Xu Yu, whose real name is Xu Yu. She said that she started this name because it was a homophonic and poetic picture of her original name, so she uses it now.
More materials to represent the picture to Xu Yu
According to her own introduction, there are many mediums for her paintings, watercolors, colored lead, oil pastels, carbon bars, board paintings, etc. Generally, a material will be changed after a long time, because she always tries to use more More materials to represent the picture.
“Hometown”
At first, I saw Xu Yu write this paragraph on Weibo’s Weibo: “My childhood was in Hangzhou, a small town in a small town in Jiaxing. The farthest place I visited was Hangzhou, when I looked at the province Travelers are envious of the glare of their eyes. When I was in high school, I saw someone going abroad to study abroad. I thought how good it would be if I were to go abroad. I have been looking up at the authors of the books and books since I bought Huaxin, thinking about if one day It ’s good to know them, and I ’d like to be able to freelance one day.
Things come to mind here, the world becomes wonderful. Later, when I went to college, I started to skip classes and save money to travel, and later I fought with my parents After studying abroad, I started to run around the world, and I also became an author of the heart and a freelancer. What ’s even more amazing is that those who I have followed since high school are much better now. Become a friend and a fan friend (speaking of a flower in my heart here).
as long as I do it, I can do it
Once I only dare to think about things, I naturally reflected them into reality a little bit. Not long ago, I had a wish to go to the beach to see the stars Look at the moon. At this moment on the sea breeze terrace, the stars are all over the sky. It seems that as long as I can think of anything, as long as I do it, I can do it. “
“The watermelon field in summer is a beautiful memory of my childhood”
For Xu Yu, painting is not about how skilled you are, but about showing what you want to say. Techniques are physical things, and what you really have in mind does not depend on your skills. Anyone can draw.
“One year I lived in Tuscany, and the small country-style lifestyle allowed me to enjoy the complete life of an Italian.”
Like Xu Yu, she is a cute little girl in the eyes of friends. Her favorite things may be painting and traveling, and occasionally love cooking.
“XuYu is really a childlike girl.”
In the memory of her friend, she was a girl who ran to Sicily with her two schoolbags on her own. The schoolbag was full of equipment needed for painting. “You will be very happy to follow her, she will tell you the story she met on the trip.” My friend said “Because Xu Yu particularly likes to chat with others, I remember that when the Roman tourist encountered her, she came to know a Japanese and Korean Traveling friends have also listened to their stories. It feels amazing! Xu Yu is really interesting and interesting (Courage of the Northeast dialect). ”
“The Beautiful Legend of Sicily”
Xu Yu said: “Every aspect of life can give me a lot of inspiration. Traveling, painting, watching movies, and living in different places. I want to paint too many things every day. I just hate that time is not enough.”
“The Legend of Sicily 2”
She also said: “The perception of live painting is completely different from that of taking pictures.”
“Southern Diary”
“Southern Diary” is her graduation project and the first personal picture book in her life. This book can be regarded as an account of her in the past 20 years.
The inner page of the picture book “Distance”
Xu Yu : Let’s go travel!
In fact, Xu Yu’s painting is the story of her life experience, simple and beautiful. We always have all kinds of messy reasons to disturb our travels, but with Xu Yu’s paintings, we can see the beauty and follow her story line.
At the same time, you can also look forward to the story “Italian Alone” she has assembled for three years.
Will you finally have the urge to say?
“Let’s go travel!”
“Southern Diary”
“Southern Diary”
“Southern Diary”
xu yu resume
Xu Yu, graduated from the School of Art and Design, Zhejiang University of Technology,
Now studying at the Bologna Academy of Fine Arts as a graduate student in comics, and is also a freelance creator,
Now cooperating with magazines such as “Painted Heart”, “Picture Box”, “Middle School Place”, “Children’s Literature”, “National Geographic”, “Traveller” and so on Co-published books “Adventures of Rabichi” and “Distance”. Published works:
In 2017, cooperated with Tomorrow Publishing House to publish “Distance”
In 2017, he co-published “The Adventures of Rabbi” with Red Horse Book
Published a personal picture book “Southern Diary” in 2018 (intimate traveler)
In 2018, cooperated with Le Fun to publish the flip book “Unveiling the 24 Solar Terms”
Wang Ruilin (1985-), born in Anshan, Liaoning, is a young artist in Beijing. After graduating from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, he began to create the series of Dreams of Dreams in 2012. He said: “Because of this real and false world of impermanence, the restlessness and goodness gradually brought me. In this way, the soothing narrative of the work allows me to find the balance of my soul. Let nature take its course and bring to my creation Soil and sweet springs. ”
Wang Ruilin said that isolation from this world is painful, but it can also reduce the impetuosity and temptation of the world, and let him see the essence and value of life. As the main work of the Dream by Dream series, Dream by Ark represents most of his original intentions and emotions.
Dream by Dream series Ruilin
The next series is about Sun Wukong’s sculpture called “Mi · Hang”. Before making this sculpture, he studied all the monkey images of China and the West. He thinks that Sun Wukong in the United States and imported monkeys are all large and one kind. The image of King Kong. He thinks this understanding is wrong. He thinks that Sun Wukong is a monkey because in animals, the monkey is a kind of spirit beast, and the wisdom is relatively high. It should be won by wisdom and aura, so the direction of Chinese and Western understanding is different. He believes that what really represents Chinese superheroes is not tights and muscular blood vessels. It does not need those hard conditions to prove himself, more should be internal.
“Hidden” series of works
Many people do not understand why he was a monkey. He replied, “I just want the world to see the Eastern hero.”
“Hidden” series of works
Wang Ruilin’s intention to create Qi Tian Da Sheng
Wang Ruilin’s intention to create Qi Tian Da Sheng is to let the world see the appearance of an oriental hero. I always think that the great saint of the hide-out series is Wang Ruilin himself. From the work itself, this quiet, formidable and powerful aura is undoubtedly his own. It seems that Wang Ruilin himself is also happy to hide this energy under a calm appearance, like the sea of gentle wind, the undercurrent surging but quiet.
“Circus” series of works
He always remembered the first time he was touched when he saw Xu Beihong’s “Running Horse” when he was 4 or 5 years old. In his eyes, it was a subtle fusion of Eastern detachment and Western reason. Coupled with Wang Ruilin’s love for horses, horses gradually became the theme of his creation in a period of time, and eventually formed a series of “horse drama”. He blended the life energy of this animal into a quiet gesture, creating a wonderful tension in the work.
infinite charm of art
Wang Ruilin believes that once the work is completed, he will exist in a completely independent form, no longer under the author’s control. In the face of viewers, different life backgrounds and hearts, the original intention of creation is no longer important. Wang Ruilin believes that once the work is completed, he will exist in a completely independent form, no longer under the author’s control. In the face of viewers, different life backgrounds and hearts, the original intention of creation is no longer important. Of course, people will try to understand the work with their own values, world view, and aesthetic consciousness. The harder you understand, the more you focus on your feelings. Different feelings are also connected through the same work. This makes us viewers also become participants in the work. This is the meaning of his existence and the infinite charm of art.
“Circus” series of works
If music is a flowing art, then sculpture is still music. Wang Ruilin’s work may not be the best in China today, but it can be said to be one of the most moving works.
Art is not just an ornament, but a window. When we gaze at it, we gaze at the great moment that the world once had.
Ren han, male, was born in Tianjin, China in February 1984. He is currently living in Tianjin, a contemporary artist.
Ren han the definition of art
Ren han said: “the definition of art has been changing, such as the one of painting. The interpretation of Mona Lisa in different eras and topics, is different”
“Mirror” by Ren Yi
He graduated from the National Institute of Fine Arts of Vera Arson, France in 2011. As an artist, he has participated in exhibitions around the world, including the Paris 104 Art Center, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Berlin Chinese Cultural Center, the Nice Asian Art Museum, the Beijing Today Art Museum, the Times Art Museum, and Taikang Space. He has also held solo exhibitions at the Less Is More Projects Gallery in Paris, C-Space, LAB47 and Qimu Space in Beijing. He is also the co-founder of the Renewable Space Program, which asks artists to organise and to expose in non-display spaces such as ruins.
he ambiguous nature of human nature
Ren han used pencil as the main material to carry out an orderly study in the field of plastic arts. Using graphite’s essence to present reflection and texture, and through the outline of his painting, we see a two-dimensional plane, but the artist’s special treatment of the picture makes us feel a sense of volume, as it happens with sculptures. His works often use mirrors, labyrinths, water, and virtual landscapes to reveal the ambiguous nature of human nature, explore the boundaries of sketches and sculptures, and the possibilities.
“Maze” by Ren han
The power of art is to wake up the soul. The reason why art can support us to seek truth is that art can play down the self-center. It requires us to observe and understand, and to do our best to express and gain valuable experience.
Untitled Work
Untitled Work
In “Mirror” series, he said that he chose it because the mirror will have a reflection when it is photographed, it is visually similar to the graphite texture. With white as the base, the relationship between black and white is more confusing in the Mirror.The line gathered in the center is like a road to the exotic world. Infiltrating, hitting the wall, and reflecting, lead the viewer into a spiritual space of meditation.
“Mirror Seires” by Ren han
“I don’t have rules in the form of works. I set myself the rule of not creating new images, but reducing, reorganizing, and copying ready-made images and ready-made products. Because it is realistic or abstract, as long as it is hand-made.. I choose to be a developer and implementer of ideas.” He said
“Mirror Seires” by Ren han
Side view of “Skull”
In the world we live in, every item is unique. They have different self-expressions and they hold different emotions and hopes. Only by doing everything possible to faithfully restore every seemingly ordinary item will people see the purest beauty in the world. That kind of beauty will lead people and be brave in themselves.
Situated in the northeast of the state-protected Sanxingdui Site by the bank of the Yazi River in Guanghana, Sanxingdui Museum is a modern museum which is 40 kilometers to the north of Chengdu. Covering a total area of 530 yields, in which 11000 square meters serve as the main tableaus for the exhibits, Sanxingdui Museum had its foundation laid in August 1992, and opened to the public in October 1997. Integrating collection, preservation, academic research and social education all in one, the museum showcases kinds of precious cultural relics unearthed at Sanxingdui Site.
The cultural relics at Sanxingdui are a valuable cultural heritage of humanity, which contains a rich historical, cultural and scientific value, and are considered the most attractive among the multitude of spectacular relics in China. The main building of the museum stands in an attempt to adapt to its profile with the shape of the land, the historical site and the forms of the relics, mixing primitivism with modernism; the surroundings of the museum are arranged in an ingenious layout: a lake and a large lush garden are located in a unique environment with flora in all seasons.
The Sanxingdui site is an ancient city, an ancient state and an ancient Shu culture site in southwest China, which is the largest in the area, the longest in time and the richest cultural connotation. The total area covers 12 square kilometers with a city of 4 square kilometers in the center. Dozens of cultural relics were found in the city, such as the city walls, two sacrificial tombs, foundations of buildings, jade pits and burial grounds, as well as several thousand artifacts. The Sanxingdui site was the capital of the state of Shu about 3,000 years ago. In January 1988, the Council of State designated the Sanxingdui site as one of the most important cultural heritage units under national protection.
The structure of the Sanxingdui museum consists of two galleries. Gallery one represents an arc-sloped ecological building, emphasizing the theme that human world and nature are in perfect harmony. Gallery two is spiral architecture, symbolizing both Three-star Mounds and the course of human history development. In gallery one comprehensively displays gold, bronze, jade and pottery artifacts and great achievement in every aspect. In gallery two, specialized bronze gallery, through successively combination of scenes introduce group of bronze images and mysterious sculptures.
Sanxingdui Museum – Exhibition hall
The first gallery is divided into six sections to show the precious items of gold, bronze, jade, stone, ceramics, ivory, shells, excavated from the Sanxingdui site to introduce remarkable success in each domain, the outline of the story and the vital state of ancient Shu. For example, you can admire the oldest golden rod in the world dating back to 4000 BC and the 396 cm tall bronze tree which is the largest bronze tree found so far in China. The second section, large collections of bronze objects are exhibited, such as bronze works in the shape of the sun, snakes, altars, a group of small figures who make sacrifices and some plausible figures such as the bronze figure with a human head wearing a mask. gold, one of the “not to be lost” relics.
VISIT
Address: Sanxingdui Historic Relics 618300,Guanghan Sichuan China
Opening Hours: 8:30 – 18:00 (Exhibition Hall I); 8:30 – 18:30 (Exhibition Hall II). Ticket time: 8:30 – 17:00
Pan xi is a Chinese artist born in Wenzhou, China, in November 1971. Since childhood, has developed a strong artistic and aesthetic sense because, every week, with her sister, she went to the art institute directed by her father to visit the workshops of the artists at work.
She is so passionate about drawing and painting, she starts taking lessons at the age of ten, from an artist friend of her father.
She began her fine arts studies, after finishing high school, in 1989 at the National Academy of Fine arts in Hangzhou, China, and a year later she received a scholarship and moved to the Academy of Fine Arts in Moscow where he earned a Master in Fine Art.
Lunch break
She is so passionate about drawing and painting, she starts taking lessons at the age of ten, from an artist friend of her father.
She began her fine arts studies, after finishing high school, in 1989 at the National Academy of Fine arts in Hangzhou, China, and a year later she received a scholarship and moved to the Academy of Fine Arts in Moscow where he earned a Master in Fine Art.
Pan Xi 2
In 1999 he obtained a master's degree in oil painting and with the work "Seven Beauties" he won the gold medal of the University.
Since then he has lived in Europe, between Germany, Austria, Holland and France, and in the United States working as a professional artist.
He currently lives in Hangzhou, China, where he opens his personal studios on the Jade Mountain Emperor's Hill on the outskirts.
In 1999 he obtained a master's degree in oil painting and with the work "Seven Beauties" he won the gold medal of the University.
Seven Beauty
Mother and son
From her works shines through the modernity and power of the early twentieth century artists such as Klimt, especially for the use of colors, Modigliani, as regards the idea of dreams and reality that floats in an unreal time, and Schiele in reference to the yield of the bodies and the positions they assume.
Paris in the spring
Although her works are very twentieth-century they maintain a very powerful bond with the ancient Chinese art that makes the works are fascinating, overwhelming but at the same time extremely delicate and poetic.
Siesta
In her works the female subject is undoubtedly predominant. The women of are rendered in all their femininity and sensuality, dormant and dreamy but at the same time so determined and sure to be able to show their body with total ease, seducing the viewer and taking him to another dimension where everything is always immobile and eternal.
spring
Exhibitions: 2003 Veronica, Gallery “de Arte”, Nantes, France 2005 Girl in a Black dress, Gallery “de Arte”, Nantes, France 2008 Body temperature present, Gallery Zhongdao, Suzhou, China 2009 Mother and Child, Gallery “de Arte”, Nantes, France 2010 Carmine, Art scene Warehouse 2011 In my secret garden, M Art Center, Shanghai, China
Sanxingdui Museum – Exhibition hall
