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A Journey to Chinese Contemporary Fine Arts

Yang Gallery Singapore & Beijing

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Chinese Contemporary Fine Art has become a global phenomenon!

Welcome to Yang Gallery one of the most prestigious art galleries featuring the most collectible Chinese Contemporary Fine Art in Singapore & Beijing.

Yang Gallery presents: Oil paintings, Sculptures, Watercolors, Photographs, Prints, Installations, Designer Furniture and Artistic Architectures etc.

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In the last few years we have successfully exhibited a number of influential exhibitions various corporations such as: Fang Lijun Investing in Chinese Contemporary Art Seminar, Cultural Exchange Conferences, Art Performances with Mercedes Benz, as well as many Charity Art Exhibition & Events in Singapore & Beijing.

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An Kun 安堃

1968 Born in Jiangsu Province, China

1990 Graduated from Suzhou Art&Design Technology Institute, China1994 Studied in Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China

Now living in Beijing

Born in 1968, An Kun was set on painting without any particular reason other then just enjoying the time he spends standing in front of the canvas pouring out his inspiration. Though his choose to become an artist much like his contemporaries was to choose a life of poverty, he has never tired, rather persists in solitude, until now. He naturally shines through in his latest series about ‘ZEN’. An Kun himself explains that the contemporary environment has too much blunder, thick color and shallow meanings that block people from thinking, leaving them at a loss.

As most people do, after graduation An Kun held many jobs. While working as an art designer as well as a decoration designer for a corporation, he was hardly able to release his soul and be free in his creation. Recalling how he felt at the time, he said only painting could bring his mind back. Therefore, he relieved himself from the “mess” and offered his self a chance for freedom in life through art. He prefers to stay in the studio by himself, working quietly and meditating with great composure, which demonstrates his natural otherworldly instincts.

Awakening

70 x 50 cm

Oil On Canvas

My Rich Friend Lily

150 x 120 cm

Oil On Canvas

Diana, The Singer

160 x 100 cm

Oil On Canvas

Chen Hongzhi 陈鸿志

Chen Hongzhi was born in Xianyou from Fujian Province in 1978. He graduated from Fine Arts College from Fujian Normal University, majoring in oil painting. He is now a soho artist and teacher in Xinkongjian Fine Arts Training School. His main exhibition participation and awards include: “ Three One” Art Exhibition in Fuzhou in 1998; the third Fujian Art Festival in Fuzhou in 1999; 2001 same-sex and opposite-sex description—2001 Modern Art Exhibition in Fuzhou; the third Oil Painting Exhibition in Beijing in 2003; 2005 Visual Breathtaking—2005 Shanghai Youth Art Exhibition and won Excellence Awards; Shanghai International City Sculpture Biennale in 2005 and he won Dragonair Emerging Chinese Artist Awards in Shanghai in 2005.

Lost

360 x 180 cm

Oil On Glass

Distant

360 x 180 cm

Oil On Glass

Chen Jinqing 陈金庆

Born in 1983, Quanzhou, ChinaLiving in Beijing, professional artist Solo Exhibitions:2008 “Searching```” Unique Space Gallery, Beijing Group Exhibitions:2009Art Singapore 2009, Singapore“Jubilant october, dynamic water drop”, Tianjin Olympic Center Stadium, TianjinArt Crossing East and West, Hakaren Art Gallery, Beijing, Singapore“Dance” Grand MOMA Sculpture Exhibition, 798 Times Space, BeijingA Journey to Chinese Contemporary Prints Exhibition，Yang Gallery, Beijing, Singapore2008

“It’s a small world”, Hakaren Art Gallery, Singapore“Rising——Aggressive artists invitational exhibition”, 798 Times Space, Beijing“Efforts Bring Success- contemporary art exhibition”, 798 Times Space, Beijing“Popular elements” contemporary art exhibition, 67°Art Space,Beijing“Art·Contemporary” ——Group shows of contemporary artists, Unique Space Gallery, BeijingInvitational exhibition of oil painting and sculpture, Beijing

The Conductor

42 x 43 x 122 cm

Sculpture

Serve The People

76 x 47 x 36 cm

Sculpture

Morning Exercise no. 01

35 x 23 x 100 cm

Sculpture

Chen Qingqing 陳慶慶

Solo Exhibition2009 “Dream of fifteen Years”, Installation art by Chen Qing Qing, LDX Art Centerof Beijing, Suongzhuang2008 Qing Qing Enchanted Paradise, Schoeni Gallery, Hong Kong2005 Mirage of 798 --- Secret Light, Qing Qing’s Installation Exhibition(798 Dayaolu zhanchon( 2005 Qing Qing Installation Exhibition, Tokyo Gallery, Japan2002 Qing Qing Installation Exhibition, Today Art Museum 2002 Qing Qing Solo exhibition of Mixed Media, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing2000 Qing Qing Installation, Gallery Contemporary Chinese, London 1999 Nomad of the Soul, AAL-Gallery Karl Strobe, Vienna1996 Installation work HOME , showed in Modern Art Museum, Vienna

Works being collected by China National Museum and New Museum in New York and many collectors around the world.

The Road To Heaven

137 x 30 x 8.5 cm

Digital Light Installation

Seedling

157 x 63 x 7 cm

Embroidery

Bowl

38 x 38 x 32 cm

Natural Material Sculpture

Chen Shi 陈实

Born in Beijing in 1963

1996 graduated from the Beijing Xuanwu Hongqi amateur University commercial artChen Shi takes the idea of media and representations to another level. What is the truth of what we see or hear every day is a question that Chen wants us to think about.The media permeates into our daily lives in every way, influencing the modern youngster’s way of experiencing the world and our lives. Information is constantly pushed upon us in different ways or forms, for instance, from the spectacular neon advertisements in Times Square to the information being shared on Facebook. As the global economy gets better, the traditional methods of advertisement and communication such as leaflets, DMs, newspapers, are gradually vanishing. Chen Shi pulls off the leaflets from lampposts and walls in China, taking specific words or messages from the leaflets, rearranges them on the canvas, this way, these advertisements are no longer a form of media, but a carrier of collective memories and a way to document our history.Through his critique, Chen Shi’s paintings weave intricate narratives, implicating the role of the artist as an active participant (both as subjugator and subservient) in the economic and social policy of contemporary China today.

The Discussion

150 x 140 cm

Oil On Canvas

Normality Series No. 8

180 x 200 cm

Mixed Media On Canvas

Amusement

150 x 140 cm

Oil On Canvas

Chen Wenling 陈文令

Chen Wenling is a representative of China’s contemporary artists. His art, besides presenting vividly and in concrete the complex relationship among animals living according to the law of jungle, is provocatively bringing to light crisis behind these pungent scenes, of morality, credibility and faith among men. This is indeed the nature of Chen’s artistic conception. He employs fresh and vivid visual language to provide the audience a new way of seeing and understanding.

What You See is Not Necessarily True

190 x 294 x 98 cm Bronze

No Big Deal No.1

37 x 6 x 16 cm

Bronze

No Big Deal No.2

48 x 19 x 24 cm

Bronze

Chen Zhuo + Huang Ke Yi 陳卓＋黃可一

We deal with major visual experiences that have emerged from modern Chinese society, these experiences are concrete, realistic and unique, they can only appear in a society when the process of rapid economic development is not accompanied by a cultivation of aesthetic value. To employ photography to represent these experiences is far from being faithful to them. The best way to document such experiences is to take them as basis to depict more exciting scenes, they present more objective validity then; this is also the best approach to broad horizons of those visual experience as it provides us infinite possibilities.

Chen Zhuo + Huang Ke Yi

Chinese Carnival no. 10

120 x 63 cm C-print Photography

Chinese Carnival no. 06


Fan Xiaoyan 龚栋

A genius of an artist at just 27, Fan Xiaoyan is one of the most distinctive and unique Chinese Contemporary sculptors today. Born in Gaomi, Shangdong province of China, Xiaoyan graduated from the prestigious Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2008.

At first glance, Fan Xiaoyan is the exact opposite of her art. She is delicate, almost fragile looking...that is until you see her works, you’ll know what you’re looking at is extraordinary talent.

Xiaoyan’s works are increadibly intense. When you look at these works you’re not just looking at Chinese art, but at a universal art that touches you directly. There is definitely a feminist message emanating from Xiaoyan’s sculptures. The woman is at the centre of her work is always part of certain improbable and surrealistic situations. However she is always feminine and realistic.

In olden China women were always appeased and its only during the first part of the 20th century that the communist party launched a campaign to emancipate women. Woman acquired an equality of principle with men but in the process lost some of their femininity such as wearing the same famous blue Mao outfit as men. Fan Xiaoyan’s women are naked, free and ambitious just like China which is growing faster & fadter. She fights against outside forces, runs through brick wall, move mountains...but despite it all she is still a women, sensuous and feminine.

It is quite impossible to categorize Xiaoyan’s sculptures as they unveil with acuteness the powerful energies hidden in the light and the shapes. They are unique, expressive, readable but still extremely creative. They are puzzling and spectacular, shocking and touching, very lively and sensual altogether.

Intricate Perfection

200 x 180 x 200 cm

Stainless Steel & Gold Leaf

Red Imprisonment

200 x 90 x 80 cm

Stainless Steel & Gold Leaf

The Winding Earthly

90 x 120 x 105 cm

Stainless Steel & Brass

Gong Dong 龚栋

Born in Fujian, China in 1977, Gong Dong graduated from the Fuzhou Art Institute, Sculpture Department.

Gong Dong constantly draws inspiration from the abundance of life experiences as he feels that art will never move a viewer if it lacks real emotion. He strongly believes that art is a necessary pleasure that enhances the lives of individuals and humanity, saving it from being a barren life. He is particularly mindful of the usage of the philosophies and language of art. His sculptures have a few distinct features that make them stand out: accurate and sharp portrayals of emotion, a flair for simplicity and a meticulous attention to the smallest detail. As a contemporary sculptor – immersed in the developments of daily life and the influences of present-day schools of thought towards art – he is able to express his individual flair in his pieces whilst recognizing that these forms have to be infused with an air of modernity. He performs this infusion not with a separate, deliberate attempt to inject additional meaning to his pieces because it is required of him. Rather, they are derived from his particular intuition and experience in art, guiding him towards a natural expression that is uniquely his own.

Birthmark Series

75 cm (high) Bronze

In The Distance

75 x 38 x 56 cm

Fiberglass

He Wenjue 何汶玦

He’s artwork easily attracts due to the dual nature of the images: he tries to reconstruct his memory in them, from the time when he was an adolescent, but he approaches the reconstruction through the approach of extracting and transforming images from films that are familiar to every Chinese of his generation. Such a peculiar character of his works, esp. the cinema drawings series, enables his audience to experience not only his personal feeling and attitude with respect to that time and society, but also shows intimately the Zeitgeist of Chinese society at its budding age of reformation, an adolescence that the generation of He shares with this nation.

Watch Movie – The Red Sorghum

200 x 400 cm Oil on Canvas

Watch Movie –In The Mood For Love


Hu Ke 胡柯

1978 Born in Hunan, China.

2005 Bachelor’s Degree, Sculpture department, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute,Chongqing ,China.

Exhibitions:2011Suzhou Art Museum Annual Nomination Exhibition 2011,Suzhou Art Museum,Suzhou China.

“Duet”,Yu’ao Art Museum,Chongqing,China.“Without you in 15 days”,Shanghai,China..

Collection: Today art Museum ,Beijing,China.(2007)

The Red Chamber Of Secrets 16

34 x 33 x 60 cm

Painted Resin Sculpture


54 x 46 x 202 cm



73 z 38 x 50 cm


Huang Gang 黄钢

1961 Born in Beijing, China

1984 Graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Art Design Department,China Central Academy of Art and Design, Beijing, China1991 Graduated with a Master of Art from the Environment Art Department, China Central Academy of Art and Design, Beijing, Beijing, China

Awards1991 Ikuo Hirayama Award, 1995 Silver Award from the First Beijing International Environment Art Exhibition. He was also interviewed by Le Figaro Magazine

Selected Solo Exhibitions2006 Art Beijing, Modern Art Gallery, Taichung, Taiwan2000 Solo Exhibition at J. Gallery, Hong Kong, ChinaSolo Exhibition at Atlantic Gallery, Munich, Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Germany1999 Solo Exhibition at Jia Rui Gallery, Beijing, ChinaSelected Group Exhibitions2005 Beijing International Art Fair, Beijing, China2001 Group Exhibition Science & Art, China National Art Museum, Beijing, China1998 China Contemporary Lacquer Painting Exhibition, Beijing, China1997 China International Art Fair, Beijing, China

Struggle For Freedom

83 x 43 x 58 cm

Sculpture

The Dance

114 x 55 x 55 cm

Bronze Sculpture

New Long Road

70 cm

Sculpture

Jiang Guofang 姜國芳

Jiang Guofang was born in 1951 in Shangjiang Village, Jiangxi Province. In 1968 during the Cultural Revolution, he joined the army when his parents were sent to labor camps.

His family was later reunited and between 1969-1972 Jiang Guofang began to train himself as an artist. In 1973, after the re-opening of the prestigous Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing, he was selected as one of only eight students to enter the Oil Painintg Department. When he graduated with honors in 1978, he was appointed to the facaulty of the Central Acaemy. In 1979, he went on to teach at the Central Institute of Drama.

Being the only Contemporary artist renowned for his lively and astonishing depictions of scenes from Ancient China, Jiang Guofang’s works have been recognized and exhibtied internationally in several Solo shows from Hong Kong to Venice Palace in Rome, as well as numorous group shows. He was also the first Contemporary artist to have a one-man show presented at the Forbidden City, Beijing in 2004.

Speaking about his Forbidden City series, Jiang Guo Fang said, “The path that leads to the entrance of the Qianqinggong Palace always suggests the idea of destiny. As one walks through this doorway, one can imagine the struggles of power and love in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, as well as history and its outcome. What lies ahead for these men, women & children, are the burden of history, infinite uncertainty, and the destiny of the ruling class that has been passed on. The Palace has the depth and mystery of the ocean.”

Palace Doors

110 x 65 cm

Lithography

Court Lady

50 x 75 cm

Lithography

Dream

80 x 110 cm

Lithography

Jin Yu 金宇

Jin Yu is a Chinese artist trained in Fine Art, who now works from Songzhuang art camp in Beijing, the highly esteemed hotspot of the up and coming Chinese contemporary art world.

Over the past two decades, Yu has exhibited throughout Asia, with both group and solo shows in China, Japan and Korea. In 2006, he made his European debut with the Artist Touring Europe exhibition. Jin Yu has been a highlight of numerous oil painting shows, a skill that the artist refined during his valuable formal art training. He is also perceived as a very relevant figure in the contemporary art generation in his native country, with inclusion in shows such as Moving Toward a New Century (2006) and Brilliant – Songzhuang Decade (2005). Yu also works as an associate professor at Beijing Youth Political College.

Contact No.236

190 x 160 cm

Oil on Canvas

Contact No.237

190 x 160 cm

Oil on Canvas

Liao Zhenwu 廖真武Liao Zhenwu was born in Sichuan Province, China in 1964. He Graduated from the Oil Painting Department, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China as well as graduated from the Arts Department, Sichuan College of Education, Chengdu, China.

In Liao Zhenwu’s latest works of windows series, he becomes interested in the window models which can be seen everywhere along the streets of large cities. Walter Benjamin’s description of the streets and shop windows of western cities as well as the loafers or vagrants wandering around the cities at night is, to a great extent, applicable to today’s urban scenes in China. The models in the shop windows symbolize the commercial society and also represent the indifference of the consumption society.

Times Tag - Sitting

180 x 180 cm

Oil On Canvas

Times Tag - Portrait

160 x 100 cm

Oil On Canvas

Li Ji 李季

1963 Born in Kunming,Yunnan Province, China

Li Ji adopts animals and people into his work. He merges his own understanding into his composition to express his profound affection towards art. He is influenced by cynical realism and pop art.

Education1987 Graduated from the Printmaking Department of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts1990 Graduated from the Printmaking Department of Central Academy of Fine Arts

Pet Series - Piglet & Puppy

250 x 200 cm

Oil On Canvas

Security & the Girls

200 x 300 cm

Oil On Canvas

Li Qing 李青In recent years, cross-border painting by the costume designer and installation works, the use of material properties and the “3D space” concept, expressed another kind of “nothingness” exists, the work has been in use for the creation of family skeletons and Buddhist themes, most of his works in creation stage of a morning half awake when the idea of sleep to complete.

1993 Graduated from the Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts 1997 Black clothes, Chinese clothing original design studio, Paris, France 2001 Black clothes fashion show, U.S. Embassy, China 2002 Performing art presenting of German culture in fashion 2003 Louvre fashion show, Paris, France 2008 Rush @ 798 art district, Beijing, China 2009 Harmony Accreditation, Art District, Zhengyang, China 2010 You’re looking at art?, Yang Gallery Beijing, China

Skull

35 x 53 x 38 cm

Sculpture

Deep Thought

35 x 53 x 38 cm

Sculpture

Liu Fei 刘飞

They are happy, full of the desires, innocence and vitality of youth. Yet their images provoke in you a kind of unease that is close to despair. That is the visual experience of Liu Fei’ s recent series of paintings, “Bold+Trendy”.The theme of this series is groups of young girls in student uniforms of the 1920s.They have shaved their heads bald and are laughing with their mouths wide open, exposing rows of teeth.

The images these girls make an unforgettable impression. Not because of their beauty, or their special disposition or aura. In fact, they are memorable because they are ugly. Usually we remember people for one of two reasons-either because they are good-looking or because they are odd in some way. Liu fei’s girls belong in the latter category. His means of expression is an exaggerated anti-aestheticism. The elements he uses are not taken from life. Rather, they are derived from female students in the 1920s-a white blouse with a black skirt. They have appeared in many novels, movies and photographs of the period. However, in these historical images they are accompanied by faces of innocence and beauty. Indeed, they represent an era of innocence. In Liu Fei’ s paintings, in contrast, the girl’s hair is completely shaved off, exposing their bald heads, reminding us of gangsters or rock’ n roll stars. Those cherry lips of the 1920s are no longer innocent and sensual; they are replaced by wide-open lips in fearless laughs that expose rows of large teeth. The girl also strikes various poses, taken from trendy magazines, commercial movies and TV programmes.

Woman With Gun (Red)

50 cm (high)

Cast Copper Sculpture

Woman With Gun

51 x 76.6 cm

Oil on Canvas

Fashionable Woman

100 cm (high)

Cast Copper Sculpture

Liu Hong 劉虹

An oil painter who use females to test the bitter sweetness of life; this is what I know about Liu Hong. Female bodies painted by Liu Hong are always like quiet, emotional poems. They are pretty, calm and reserved, yet exudes a certain sadness. They seem to be singing very, very soundlessly. No matter they are set up in a background of black and white combination or in a background of emptiness, those realistic human bodies will provide you with some sort of indicative feeling...

Wang Lin

Lip Language – ‘Sensuosity’


Lip Language – ‘Temptation’


Liu Liguo 刘力国

Liu Liguo is an example of the Chinese style and trend we call “Gaudy Art”, a school of thought whose subscribers often make use of pastiche in their illustration of the vulgarity of contemporary society. In recent years, Liu Liguo has become specialized in ceramic sculpture. With a wealth of humor he creates vases that revisit the symbolically charged era of Qing Dynasty ceramics. However, the message retains none in its former subtlety but is rather quite openly provocative.

Trail

11 x 9 x 19 cm Ceramics

Thunder


Trail

24 x 9 x 19 cm Ceramics

A Thousand Flowers

30 x 30 x 55 cm

Sculpture

All Hail The GreatTeachings of Mao

150 x 75 cmOil on Canvas

Liu Wei 刘伟

‘Mao Missiles’ are one of the most instantly recognizable works by Liu Wei. These objects with a stretched distortion can be hilarious; yet at the same time contain darker historical references on China and her constant progression. His works are majorly shown in several international Museum exhibitions as well as in popular demand by private collectors and art institutions internationally!

Mao Missile - Gold

200 x 35 x 35 cm

Fiberglass

Mao

600 x 65 cm

Oil on Canvas

Sunset - Bruce Lee

50 x 200 cm

Oil On Canvas

The Brilliant City - Jobs

50 x 200 cm

Oil On Canvas

Luo Brothers 罗氏兄弟

The three Luo Brothers, Luo Wei Dong, Luo Wei Bing and Luo Wei Guo, make works on paper, lacquer on wood panel, carved wood panels and statues out of lacquered resin. In all cases the works are riotous creations of kitsch. These works come from the side of the oriental nature that loves the bright lights and red lanterns that adorn every Chinese restaurant and city at festival time, that loves the peasant handicrafts containing masses of multicoloured flowers, that loves the fat babies meant to bring prosperity and success. Given this as their starting point, the three brothers have added the symbols of the new consumerism, now omnipresent in their country, as well as the symbols of the communist revolution into which they were born.

In their series “The World’s Most Famous Brands” most of the world’s foreign consumer products have been held aloft by a Luo brothers’ bouncing baby. This is undoubtedly the chaotic mix that artists like the Luo Brothers see every day. In fact, when one thinks about it, the same mix can be found in other cultures around the world. However, what is so different about the Chinese experience is the way it has happened so quickly. In the span of thirty years since the death of Mao China has gone from a drab, uniformly colourless society that went to bed by 9 pm to one that makes the eyes and ears ache with the 24 hour assault of colours, lights and noise. The Luo Brothers are both reflecting and contributing to this explosion of vitality.

Welcome! Yangtze Delta!

200 x 160 cm Oil On Canvas

Welcome, Welcome! Elephant!

100 x 120 cm Lacquer on Wood

Welcome Famous Brand – Coke

115 x 75 x 75 cm Fiberglass

Luo Jie 罗杰Born in 1968. Graduated from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 1991.

Luo Jie finds his own redemption by the laborious process of painting. Luo Jie’s course of life echoes the tragedy of his father. His obligations towards his family prevented him from following his artistic career and the awareness of failure led him to despair and depression. It is only after his parent’s death that he could resume art as a full time occupation. In his works he is preoccupied with suffering and loss. He feels imprisoned within himself. The fishing nets of his father have become the entangled ropes in his paintings. He is obsessed with the haunting images of tortured men and women, faceless, genderless, anonymous, empty creatures, composed of multiple layers of ropes with loose ends slowly falling apart. Like himself his heroes are victims of their fate.

Swinging On A Swing


Have A Good Day


Imprisoned - The Daydream Patients


Lv Yanjun 呂岩軍

There are a number of works about the Revolution Period in Chinese history, mostly being labeled as ‘political pop art’ or ‘cynical realism’. Many times these works feature characters that are either warped, numb or abnormal.

However, the young girls in Lv Yanjun’s paintings are amazingly beautiful. In fact, they often remind us of the beauty and youthfulness that were throttled during those mad years.

Sometimes in Lv’s paintings the characters are disproportional, but such disproportion embodies a sculpture-like, aesthetic feeling of solemnity and peacefulness, and this is a beautiful feeling without further reasoning. Like how the famous Chinese painter Qi Baishi once said, wonder exists between likeness & unlikeness. The essence of sacristy comes into full view through Lv’s works; that art is not just a blinded replica of reality, but a powerful and hearty expression of the spirit in real life.

Lv focuses on the facial expressions of the young women, his exquisite painting style reveals the delicacy of oriental women’s porcelain-like skin texture. The pale faces under the caps shows an incarnation of the depression and confinement of the past. It is rebellious, it reveals desires, and it strikes against our vision.

His pieces have been exhibited internationally and Private Collectors from all over the world collect his works.

Secret


Glamour


Ma Jun 馬軍

Ma Jun was born on February 28, 1974 in Qingdao, Shandong Province into a military family.

At just 5 or 6 years old, Ma had already left behind the playground exploits of his peers and began his new fixation - copying the flowers and birds in classical paintings. During primary school, his parents found art teachers to train his passion. Before high school, he had already decided on his direction in life: art. After Qingdao Art School, he graduated from the prestigious Central Academy of Fine Arts with his Bachelor’s and then Master’s degrees.

In the ‘New China Series’, each of Ma’s sculptures is completely covered in traditional Qing flower patterns, birds, dragons, clouds and scenes. The artist makes no reference to modern brand signage, but instead imprints the pieces with maker’s marks that denote their imagined “official” ancestral origins during the height of Qing dynasty rule under emperors including Qian Long and Kang Xi. For Ma, his references to the dynastic past serve as a concept of a rich cultural and historical tradition.

The shapes of the sculptures are immediately recognizable popular brands and items that have become visually branded into the country’s subconscious - the new objects or narratives of the country’s foundational mythology. By using the everyday objects of his childhood and combining them with this decorative style, he retains the notion of a pop-cultural reference to the quotidian sublime, yet references an imagined bridge between the nation’s and a personal cultural past and their intersecting futures.

New China Series - Apple Computer

35 x 38 x 28 cm

Sculpture

New China Series - Red Car

80 x 38 x 25 cm

Sculpture

Pan Dehai 潘德海

Our everyday life is comprised mainly of petty things and trifling details, however, to ‘fuss over’ them is not without sense. To observe them carefully can bring some kind of change to ourselves, to experience this change will bring our thoughts and feelings confront vis-à-vis in the stream of our past and present as well as stimulate our potential talents, to allow us to go back to the provenance of art and the departure of life. I think it is highly interesting to express one’s thoughts and feelings into a kind of unsophisticated form, more valuable than fuss over lifeless symbols or concepts.

The Red Era - National Day170 x 200 cm Oil On Canvas

The Washbasin


The Red Era - Racing To Victory 200 x 170 cm Oil On Canvas

Ren Zhe 任哲

Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Sculpture Department, Tsinghua University and he is a member of the China Sculpture Institute.

Ren Zhe is touted as one of the most accomplished young Chinese contemporary sculptors of today, and he has recently showcased 28 bronze and stainless steel sculptures in his first ever solo exhibition in Singapore.

Seemingly traditional, his ideas and concepts closely relate to contemporary culture. Drawing inspiration from Japanese anime, he infuses his expertise in metal casting techniques to create truly magnificent and unique warrior sculptures that are filled with spirit and character. Ren Zhe does not strive to create a feeling of realism; but carves and sculpts sparingly, focusing on the characteristic pose of a movement to give an aura of heroic grandeur.

An Officer

108 cm Bronze

Facing The Wind

73 x 30 x 90 cm

Stainless Steel

Thunder

74 x 55 x 85 cm

Stainless Steet

Salvador Dali

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marquis of Púbol(May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989) was a Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres.

Dalí (Spanish pronunciation: for Spanish”>[da li]) was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in 1931. Dalí’s expansive artistic repertoire includes film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media.Dalí attributed his “love of everything that is gilded and excessive, my passion for luxury and my love of oriental clothes” to a self-styled “Arab lineage,” claiming that his ancestors were descended from the Moors.

Dalí was highly imaginative, and also had an affinity for partaking in unusual and grandiose behavior, in order to draw attention to himself. This sometimes irked those who loved his art as much as it annoyed his critics, since his eccentric manner sometimes drew more public attention than his artwork.

Alice in Wonderland

100 x 70 cm Lithograph

Woman Aflame

65.5 cm Bronze

Sa Zi 萨子

Born in 1975 Xinjiang freelance art art direction

July 1999 graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Xinjiang Normal painting2002 creationThe 2004 Songzhuang CreationStayed September 2007, the Art Village in Fort Art Resume

Solo Exhibitions:

Package The Country in November 2000 Solo Exhibition “private collection of works in TianjinNovember 2004 “Long March - including a solo exhibition of governing the country Xinjiang Institute of the ArtsJuly 2005 “from the grasslands of UFO Urumqi Hongshan ParkMay 2009 “Night Curse” - Solo Exhibition the 798 OPEN contemporary art space

Zhou Enlai

150 x 120 cm

Oil On Canvas

Night Spell III

130 x 350 cm

Oil On Canvas

Shen Jingdong 沈敬东

1965 Born in Nanjing, China1984 Graduated from Nanjing Xiaozhuang Teaching Education School, Fine Arts Department1991 Graduated from Nanjing Art College, Printmaking Department Conscripted into the Chinese Military. Joined the Military Drama Troupe.1991-Now Actively involved in stage/theatre works

Selected Exhibitions

2005 “Works from Five Artists”, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing“3N Works”, Imagine Gallery, Beijing2004 “UN Art for World Peace” exhibition, Korea2003 “China Today”, Millenium Modern Art Museum, Beijing2001 “N Layers of Identity”, Nanjing Navy Command College1996 “Line of Sight”, inaugural exhibition, Jiangsu Art Museum, Nanjing

Soldier Jeep

Oil on Canvas

Determination

Oil On Canvas

Shi Lifeng 石立峰

Shi Lifeng was born in 1968 in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province and studied at the Hebei Normal University.

His paintings display and evolution from the Social Realism to the starting points of Expressive Individualism in Chinese contemporary Art.

Groups of people are intertwined and climbing forward where they are searching for hope and breakthrough, despite the historical references that influences the circumstances that surround them. They remain determined as they strive upward. The Red Men series work through a visual sensation of contrast and question: Where do they come from and where will they go? The artist has developed this theme by observing people whom came from poor environment but want to reach a better position of higher status. In Shi’s works, Chairman Mao is depicted as the symbol of high position in the Chinese society.

Shi Lifeng’s works have gained international recognition with exhibitions within China as well as in France, Denmark, and Sweden, just to name a few. Museums and Private collectors from all over the world collect his pieces. Interestingly, the album ‘Chinese Democracy’ by Guns ‘N’ Roses features Shi Lifeng’s work as the cover.

In Control

200 x 100 cm

Oil On Canvas

Walking On A Tightrope

100 x 150 cm

Oil on Canvas

Shi Wei 石巍

Shi Wei was born in 1965 in Hubei Province, China. He graduated from the Hubei Academy of Fine Arts with a Masters degree in art and now lives and works in Beijing, teaching at Beijing City University. He has held numerous exhibitions in China as well as in Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong just to name a few.

Shi Wei’s subject matter revolves around the sensuality of the female form, and the image of the “beautiful skinny woman” has now become his trademark. Each woman has her own characteristics and the artist is careful to give them each their own identity. Some gaze out of the painting with nonchalance, a vacant expression of indifference, whereas others are overtly seductive with engaging “come hither” looks.

Although each face is different, the message conveyed is the same; these women are all products of China’s new open door policy, flourishing under its fast moving economic development. Born in the 1980s and 1990s they seem, however, detached from reality, adrift in a meaningless world of consumerism. Their emaciated bodies highlight their yearning desire to be fashionable and stylish, and yet a mood of emptiness permeates form the works. Through this collection of works Shi Wei masterfully depicts the “here and now” of life in the economic-boom towns of China and what it means for the young generation of women growing up in this environment.

Beauty No.1

105 x 45 x 30 cm

Fiberglass Sculpture

Smoking In A Corner

180 x 150 cm

Oil On Canvas

Beauty No.2

70 x 40 x 40 cm

Sculpture

Wu Mingzhong 武明中

Born in 1963 in the Hebei province of China. M.A. Associate Professor and Director of the Oil Painting Research Office College of Fine Arts, Capital Normal University. He was the visiting scholar of Liebin Academy of Fine Arts in Russia, and Buffalo State College in USA.

Hi, Baby!

80 x 115 cm

Lithography

Why?

210 x 290 cm Acrylic on Canvas

Wu Rigen 乌日根

Wu Rigen was born in Inner Mongolia, China. He started out studying arts at the Luxun Academy of Fine Arts, before graduating in 1993. After that he worked at the Art College of Inner Mongolia University.

Since then he has participated in various exhibitions around the world, including: China, Denmark and Sweden.

In 2005 he studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and since then he has been based in Europe.

Crossroad

85 x 113 x 50 cm

Sculpture

The Production of Love

175 x 50 x 22 cm

Sculpture

Yan Zhixiong

Yan is a member of the British Royal Photographic Society and the China Photographers Association. He was born in Hunan Province in 1979 and now works in Beijing. He has studied traditional Chinese and oil paintings since his childhood, and majored in art design at university. At present, he is engaged in portrait art as well as photographing for commercial advertisement and star actors. His works have already won more than 70 awards in various photograph competitions in China, Austria, Ukraine, France, Belgium, Hong Kong and Macau. He has held several solo exhibitions.

Dark Fragrance No.6

Photography

Hop Series No.4

Photography

China Flower

100 x 100 cm

Photography

Yang Xiaoxiang 杨潇湘

Yang Xiaoxiang, born in 1976 in Huaxi, the Hmong people.2003 graduated from Guizhou University for Nationalities in oil painting, Shaanxi Normal University in 2011, graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Bachelor of Arts Master. Now working in Beijing and Guiyang, Guizhou Province Artists Association, the Secretary-General of the Young Artists Association of Guizhou Province, Guizhou Province Artists Association, Oil Painting Art Committee members. Which works published in the “art” Rong Bao Zhai “Art Watch” “Fine Arts” “Guizhou art” various newspapers. The creation in 1998 to 2010 oil paintings all around the galleries, institutions, entrepreneurs collections, works often appeared in a number of auction site. Work style tend to show life theme.

Fair Return

140 x 160 cm

Oil on Canvas

Good News

120 x 150 cm

Oil on Canvas

Yu Fan 于凡

In his modern ambition to ‘construct human beings’ Yu Fan believes that if sculptures do not refer to actuality then they have to advance on the way of symbol-spirituality. He is, in effect, attempting to unify Chinese traditional “man of Nature’ with the modern subject, namely to combine into this man the compassion for all living beings with the modern notion of sacrifice. This is certainly not merely an attempt to reinvigorate language, to reinstate the same form or fashion the spirit, the reconstruction of spirit and form is of the same ‘principle’ (body), language is the shape of the proper principle while this shape is both subject and shape.

Extracted from the spirit of shape: man and its form in Yu’s sculpture written by Zhu Qi

Sitting Horse

58 x 45 x 28 cm

Bronze

Shanghai Girl

52 x 67 x 45 cm

Bronze

Miss L


Reclining Sailor


Yu Hang 于航

Yu Hang’s photography works not only captures fantasized imagination from traditional literature, but also illusions of cosplay game in a modern girls’ dormitory. By these works, Yu Hang explores how females perceive their bodies in a male-dominated social woes. She also tries to construct a cultural and mental map, examining the fact that traditional culture imprints our obsession and fantasy on the female body.

The Butterfly Loves The Flower No.1


The Butterfly Loves The Flame No. 3


Yu Hanxi 余含兮

Yu Hanxi was born in 1976 in Hunan. He graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China in 1999.

Although young in age, Yu possesses superior and highly technical skills that have won the praises of art critics and art institutions from all over the world. His paintings of the people from Tibet - are perfectly rendered with amazingly realistic details and vivid colors. Through his creations, Yu describes the lives of the people and highlights their strength and resilience to the harsh living conditions. In contrast, we also see a tinge of softness and romanticism in his subjects; conveying the various scenes appropriately through the freeze-frames of life.

The artist describes the landscapes and people with such passion, leading us into the mystical land of the Tibetan highlands. In such a world, we can re-discover those pure, peaceful and beautiful feelings within ourselves. These works weaken woes gradually, bringing passion and hope to the viewer.

Renowned Contemporary Art Museums and private collectors from all over the world collect Yu Hanxi’s works.

Deep In The Mountain

85 x 120 cm

Oil on Canvas

Yu Hui 余慧

Trance, as if at your fingertips but disappearing without a trace.

Yu Hui’s works express the hustle and bustle of the soul and spirit; blocks of meticulous colors expressing a variety of feelings of anxiety & suppression. Yet, we can sense rays of hope that define our happiness upon achieving the fruits of life.

Deserted Dreamland

200 x 100 cm

Oil on Canvas

Summertime

150 x 120 cm

Oil on Canvas

Yue Minjun 岳敏君

Immediately humorous and sympathetic, 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.”

Often basing his compositions on well known European masterpieces and iconic Chinese art, Yue subverts the grandiose aura of art history through his adaptation of pop aesthetics. Using both the exaggerated expressiveness of cartooning and the stylistic rendering of graphic illustration, Yue depicts his cloned doppelgangers as contorted and grotesque, all scalded pink skin and maniacal toothy cackles.

The Baptism of Christ


3009AD (below)


The Entombment


Zeng Fanzhi 曾梵志Zeng Fanzhi (1964 Wuhan) is one of China’s most dynamic and expressive painters.

Unlike many of the other well-known Chinese painters, Zeng’s subjects are not political but psychological. His series of paintings, about hospitals, meat and masked figures, as well as his latest series of portraits set along the coast, are powerful, expressive pieces that hint at the psychological state of man — or woman — in the modern world, and perhaps the inner psyche of the artist. His works have been called apocalyptic or dark portraits of reality. They are images of sickness, cruelty, pain and longing.

In his most well-known “Mask” series, Zeng’s figures wear a white mask; they are mostly well-dressed urbanites, but they have large, strange hands, weird expressions, blank stares or puzzling eyes. His works often have sharp brush strokes, or even slashing strokes that reveal tensions in what might be seen in a splintered universe.

Lady With Dog

110 x 80 cm Lithography

Us

110 x 80 cm Lithography

Zhang Liyu 张利语1965 Born on November 1st, in Tianjin

1991 Graduated from Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, majored in print.

Vice-president of Professional Education Department of Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts.

Book

110 x 88 x 27 cm Sculpture

Skeleton


Male Reproduction


Zhang Xiangming

Born in Guangrao ,Shandong. He graduated from Shandong Normal University art department 2003. He went on to study in Class for research work of canvas in Artistic Research Institute of China in 2007.“Beijing Girl” series depicts young girl’s urban life spirit of young girl in the contemporary society, they look beautiful and innocent, however, they are rebellious and behave in haughty eyes look at the world. In his works, Zhang uses fine and realistic painting skills to present a strong character of the contemporary young girl, and they are likely to against the conservative tradition. Even though they appear restless and calm, they still have a kind of indescribable beauty.

Innocence 170 x 200 cm Oil On Canvas

Composure


Zhang Xiaogang 张晓刚

Zhang Xiaogang is best known for his Big Family series, which he has been working on since 1993. The spark for these works came from old family photographs. What interested the artist was the complexity of life and emotions behind the family scenes portrayed. The concept of a big family in China goes far beyond one’s immediate family and the ties of family blood. Collectivism is an inherent part of Chinese social history and the ties of social and cultural blood are very strong forces indeed.

In his paintings the artist captures the superficial homogeneity of the collectivity through the smooth, unblemished faces and evenly staring eyes - touched up as they would have been in the photographers’ studio. Small idiosyncrasies, one crossed eye, glasses, a mole, imperfect teeth or a wisp of hair gone astray, reveal individual differences. As Zhang Xiaogang says we live in a big family, the first thing we learn is how to shut ourselves up in a secret small cell and pretend to keep step with all the other members of the Family.

Capillary


Both Eyes


Baby in a Sailor Suit


Zhao Limin 赵利民

1970 Bom in Liaoning province1995 Graduated from the Art Department of Inner Mongolia Academy of Fine Arts Currently lives and works in BeiJing

Selected Group Exhibitions2010 Intemational Contemporary Art Exhibition, 798 Art District,BeiJing,China2009 Chinese Contemporary Recommended Art Exhibition in Amsterdam ,the Netherlands2008 Heart and Body, Mulpa Space ,798Art District,BeiJing ,China2008 February in Early Spring Contemporary Art Exhibition,China2008 The 2nd Round Oil Painting Invitational in East Region Art Center, Beijing,China2008 Assembly under Five Rings –Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition in the Legend,Beijing, China2008 Survival Scene Contemporary Art Exhibition, China2008 I Love Songzhuang –Themed Exhibition of Songzhuang Art Festival,Roundness Art Community,BeiJing,China

The Emperor’s New Clothes - Afternoon Expedition


Dances With Cattle No. 1

140 cmOil on Canvas

Dances With Cattle No. 2

140 cmOil on Canvas

The Nuptial


Zhou Changqing 周长青

Besides being known as the life and soul of China’s most prestigious luxury & lifestyle magazine, Mr. Zhou Changqing, president of L’OFFICIEL’, is also an outstanding upcoming artist in the vast landscape of Chinese contemporary art. In 2010 together with ten other most outstanding contemporary Chinese artists, Zhou exhibited successfully in “The Ten Faces of Modernity,” Exhibition at 798 Art District, Beijing, China.

Ember Days

200 x 150 cm (x4)Oil on Canvas

Patchery


Zhou Chunya 周春芽

1955 Born in Chongqing, Sichuan Province

1982 Graduated from the Department Painting, Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Chongqing

1988 Graduated from Experiment Art Department, Kassel Academy of Fine Arts, Germany

Zhou is perhaps most famous for his Green Dogs series. It wasn’t just German Neo-Expressionism that inspired him, but his German Shepherd, Heigen. The dog became his chief subject for more than ten years. Zhou describes the green dog as a sort of symbolic self portrait. He interprets the background as a field of uncertainty, loneliness, and distance between people, while the dogs express a wide variety of emotions. He says, “[The Green Dog’s] image and situation project my cultural characters and my circumstance of reality in life.”

Green Dog

76 x 58 cm

Lithography

Large Peach Tree No. 1

130 x 160 cm

Lithography

Green Dog

88 x 70 cm

Lithography

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