Chinese Contemporary Artists
YANG JIECHANG
The Last Tree
Alisan Fine Arts in Hong Kong presents "The Last Tree", the fifth solo exhibition by French-Chinese artist Yang Jiechang, as part of the French May Arts Festival in HK, from 22 May to 31 August 2024. The exhibition presents Yang Jiechang's "flower and bird paintings" created between 1988 and 2023. It also includes the premiere of his "Soy Sauce Drawing" series, as well as previously unseen works from his "Tale of the 11th Day" series and his famous "Hundred Layers of Ink: For Bada" series. Yang Jiechang is one of the most innovative contemporary artists to emerge in China after the Cultural Revolution. This exhibition follows on from the major Carte Blanche given to Yang Jiechang by the Musée Guimet in Paris in 2022.
http://www.alisan.com.hk/en/exhibitions_detail.php?id=238
CHU TEH-CHUN
"In Nebula" / Venice
A retrospective exhibition by the famous French-Chinese artist Chu Teh-Chun (1920-2014) entitled "In Nebula" is being held from 20 April to 30 June 2024 at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini on the Isola San Giorgio Maggiore, to coincide with the 60th Venice Biennale of International Art. Organised with the support of the Chu Teh-Chun Foundation and the Cini Foundation, it is the most important exhibition devoted to this great master of abstraction in recent years. It presents a collection of emblematic paintings produced by the artist from 1955 onwards. The exhibition opens with large recent formats, progressing antechronologically to the oldest small formats. The scenography is unusual, with the aim of renewing the way we look at the work.
https://chu-teh-chun.org/retrospective-in-nebula-chu-teh-chun-fondation-cini-a-venise-20-avril-au-30-juin-2024/
ZENG FANZHI
60th Venice Biennale
An American institution is sponsoring an exhibition by a Chinese artist in collaboration with a Japanese architect in a centuries-old Venetian building', headlines the New York Times on 5 April 2024.
An exhibition entitled "Near and Far/Now and Then", organised by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, will present new works by Zeng Fanzhi at the Venice Biennale, at the Scuola Grande della Misericordia, from 17 April to 30 September 2024. The installation, designed by architect Tadao Ando, presents for the first time recent works by the artist - new abstract paintings and the first works on handmade paper made with ink, graphite, chalk and gold dust, among other mineral pigments - and aims to highlight Zeng Fanzhi's ambitious practice of redefining the abstract through exercises in figurative representation, and vice versa. The artist combines Christian, Buddhist and literati iconography. Architect Tadao Ando has designed a minimalist exhibition that uses the interplay of shadow and natural light to accentuate the interaction between Zeng Fenzhi's paintings and the site.
https://www.hauserwirth.com/news/zeng-fanzhi-at-scuola-grande-della-misericordia-in-venice/
Wu Guanzhong
WU GUANZHONG & LING FENGMIAN
The China Museum of Art in Shanghai is presenting two contemporary masters of traditional and modern Chinese art, Wu Guanzhong and Ling Fengmian, until 25 May 2024. The exhibition, entitled "Pictures of China: Artworks by Lin Fengmian and Wu Guanzhong", features no fewer than 200 paintings, sketches and other works by the two artists. Both men studied in France and returned to China, where they made a significant contribution to the modernisation of Chinese art," explains Chen Xiang, the museum's director and the exhibition's main curator. Chen Xiang goes on to say of Wu Guanzhong: "He developed an ingenious way of treating lines, planes and points in his landscapes, thus achieving a synthesis of Western elements and traditional Chinese painting". Some of Ling Fengmian's watercolours reflect the influence of contemporary European masters such as Matisse and Cézanne, but the artist has also produced some fairly modern paintings of Chinese ladies from days gone by.
https://www.artmuseumonline.org/art/art/index.html