Zeng Fanzhi

Zeng Fanzhi est né en 1964 à Wuhan (Chine). Formé à l’École des Beaux-Arts de sa ville natale, il découvre durant ces années d’enseignement l’art contemporain, chinois et occidental. Nourri par ces influences et soucieux de connaître un contexte plus effervescent, il part s’installer en 1993 à Pékin où il vit et travaille depuis.

Zeng Fanzhi est connu pour ses personnages avec puissants regards soulevés, sur les mains et les visages stéréotypés; il simule une certaine fatigue avec la société contemporaine dans laquelle la consommation atteint son apogée et conduit à la solitude et l’aliénation totale de la société et de soi-même. Ses peintures sont si riches en expression que nous rappelle l’art pouvoir explicatif peut atteindre.

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COMMENTAIRE

Artiste marqué par l’expressionnisme, ZENG Fanzhi a tout d’abord fait figurer, dans ses premières peintures, des personnages écorchés. De 1994 à 2001, il a travaillé sur sa célèbre série Mask. Chaque personnage de cette série porte un masque blanc moulant parfaitement son visage. Ses personnages se protègent sur le visage, mais également en revêtant des vêtements dénotant un statut social confortable.

Si l’un considère l’œuvre en développement de Zeng Fanzhi comme le reflet d’un voyage psychologique, on est en droit de se demander où mène ce voyage. Il y a quinze ans, les protagonistes de ses peintures étaient des victimes sans défense habitant un monde illogique. Ensuite ils ont porté des masques pour entrer dans un royaume de flâneurs urbains partageant des relations superficielles. À présent, les masques sont tombés et les protagonistes sont totalement seuls, dépouillés et sans substance. Ils ont abandonné toute affectation. Peuvent-ils à présent se reconstruire ? Nous attendons la suite de ce voyage avec impatience.

Expositions individuelles

2024

Near and Far/Now and Then, Presented by Los Angeles County Museum of Art, La Biennale di Venezia, Scuola Grande della Misericordia, Venice, Italie

2023

Old and New (Paintings 1988-2023), Museum of Art Pudong, Shanghai, Chine

Hauser and Wirth, LA, États-Unis

2019

Collection Exhibition: Zng Fanzhi, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, États-Unis

2018

In The Studio, Hauser and Wirth, Zurich, London, Hong Kong

2017

Van Gogh, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

2016

Parcours, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Pékin, Chine

2015

Paintings, Drawings, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Pékin, Chine

Paintings, Drawings, Two Sculptures, Gagosian Gallery, 555 West NY, États-Unis

2014

Musée du Louvre, Paris, France

2013
Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, France

2012–2013

Zeng Fanzhi, Gagosian Gallery, Londres, R.U

2012

Gagosian Gallery, Londres, R.U

2011

Zeng Fanzhi, Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong, China

2010

Zeng Fanzhi: The Sublime, Union Temple, Brooklyn, États-Unis

Zeng Fanzhi, Shanghai Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, Chine

Zeng Fanzhi, The National Gallery of Foreign Art, Sofia, Bulgarie

2009

Zeng Fanzhi, Godia Foundation, Barcelona, Espagne

Zeng Fanzhi, Acquavella Gallery, New York, États-Unis

2008

Tai Ping You Xiang. ShanghART Gallery Beijing, Pékin, Chine

2007

Zeng Fanzhi, Musee d’art Moderne Saint-Etienne Metropole, Paris, France

Zeng Fanzhi, Idealism, Singapore Art Museum (SAM), Singapour

Zeng Fanzhi 1989-2007, Gallery Hyondai, Seoul, Corée du Sud

2006

Hero, Zeng Fanzhi Solo Exhibition, Art Basel Miami 06, Miami, États-Unis

Zeng Fanzhi, Gallery Wedel, Londres, R.U

2005

Sky, Fine Art Literature, Wuhan, Chine

Paintings by Zeng Fanzhi, Hanart T Z Gallery, Hong Kong, Chine

2004

Unmask the Mask, Zeng Fanzhi, Artside Gallery, Corée du Sud

Face, Soobin Gallery, Singapore, Singapour

Scapes 1989-2004, The paintings of Zeng Fanzhi, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, Chine

2003

I/We, 1991-2003, The Paintings of Zeng Fanzhi, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, Chine

2001
Raw Beneath the Mask, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai, Chine

1998

Zeng Fanzhi: The Mask Series, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai, Chine

Zeng Fanzhi Works 1993-1998, CIFA (Central Academy of Fine Arts)

Gallery, Pékin, Chine

1995

Zeng Fanzhi: Behind the Mask, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, Chine

1990

Zeng Fanzhi, Hubei Institute of Fine Arts Gallery, Wuhan, Chine

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Expositions collectives

2024

Urban Fluidity: Wuhan Biennale 2024. Wuhan Art Museum (Hankou and Qintai), Chine

2021

M+ Sigg Collection: From Revolution to Globalisation, M+, Hong Kong.

2019

Under Construction. Tank Shanghai

2018

From 1978 to 2018: Art History Shaped by 40 Artists. Powerlong Museum, Shanghai.

Turning Point – 40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Art. Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai.

Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Traveled to: Guggenheim Bilbao, Espagne

2017

Arcadia. Gagosian, Hong Kong.

Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, États-Unis

Boundless Realities, Multiple Nows – Contemporary Art from Hubei as a Sample. Wanlin Art Museum of Wuhan University, Chine

A Panorama of Rivers and Mountains: Blue– Green Landscape Paintings from across Chinese history. The Palace Museum, Pékin, Chine

2016

100 Years of Chinese Art— Opening Exhibition of Long Museum Chongqing. Long Museum Chongqing, Chine

Holzwege, ShanghART Gallery West Bund, Shanghai, Chine

Fosun Foundation, Shanghai, Chine

Sont Art Museum, the 1st Exhibition: From Vincent Willem Van Gogh to Chinese Contemporary Art Song Art Museum, Pékin, Chine

M+ Sigg Collection: Four Decades of Chinese Contemporary Art. ArtisTree, Hong Kong, Chine

Time Memory. Minsheng Contemporary Art Museum, Pékin, Chine

2015

Target Choice: Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition of Collectors. Today Art Museum, Pékin, Chine

Picasso, Mania, Grand Palais, Paris, France

Psycho/Somatic: Visions of the Body in Contemporary East Asian Art. Allen Memorial Museum, Oberlin College, OH, États-Unis

China 8: Contemporary Art FROM China on the Rhine and Ruhr: MKM Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst, Duisburg, Allemagne.

Fusion: Chinese Modern and Contemporary Art since the 1930s, Wanlin Art Museum of Wuhan University, Chine

2014

Post Pop: East Meets West. The Saatchi Gallery, Londres, R.U.

Cosmos. Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum.

Le Jardin Décomposé / Decomposed Garden. Gagosian Gallery, Le Bourget, France.

Matter and Memory: Early Chinese Art Treasures. Gagosian Gallery, 980 Madison Avenue, New York, États-Unis

Re-Modernization: 2014 Wuhan 3rd Documentary Exhibition of Fine Arts. Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, Chine.

Parcours. Art Basel. Re-View—Opening Exhibition of Long Museum West Bund. Long Museum, Shanghai, Chine

Right Is Wrong: Four Decades of Chinese Art from the M+ Sigg Collection. Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden. Myth / History: Yuz Collection of Contemporary Art. Yuz Museum Shanghai. Asian Crossover.

2C for ART, Salzbourg, Autriche

I Look at Things . . .—Works from the Collection. Faurschou Foundation. Copenhague, Danemark

2013

Re: Portrait—The 2013 Hall Three Official 1 Art Exhibition. Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, Chine.

Rewriting the Landscape: India and China. National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Corée du Sud.

Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, États-Unis

Portrait of the Times: 30 Years of Chinese Contemporary Art. Power Station of Art, Shanghai, Chine

Passage to History 20 Years of the Venice Biennale and Chinese Contemporary. Arsenale Nord, Nappa 89, Venise, Italie

Prima Materia. Punta Della Dogana, Venise, Italie

Those Leading Contemporary Art Practices: A Juried Invitational Exhibition of AAC. Today Art Museum, Pékin, Chine.

The Ode to Elegance: Exhibition of Selected Collection of Guangdong Museum of Art. Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, Chine.

2012

Taste of the East, Masterpieces of Chinese Art, How Art Museum

Collection Exhibition, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, Chine

LATITUDE/ATTITUDE : 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong

2011

The World Belongs to You, Palalazzo Grassi, Venise, Italie

Fusion, Contemporary Art Exhibition, Yiyuan Space, Wuhan, Chine

2010

Photo exhibition of contemporary artists. Today Art Museum, Pékin, Chine

Clouds – Power of Asian contemporary art. Soka Art Center, Pékin, Chine

Made in Popland, National Museum of Contemporary art, Gwacheon, Corée du Sud

And-Writers 2010, Nan Jing Biennale, Jiangsu Art Museum, Nangjing, Chine

2010 The Constructed Dimension, 2010 Chinese Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition, National Art Musume of China, Pékin, Chine

Reshaping History: Chinart from 2000-2009, Special Documenta, Chine

National Convention Center, Pékin, Chine

Thirty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, Chine

Fairy Tales: Selections from the MaGMA’s collection, Opera Gallery, Singapour

2009

Another Scene. ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai, Chine

In the mood for paper, F2 Gallery, Pékin, Chine

53rd Venice Biennale, Chinese Pavillon, Venise, Italie

Art Basel Miami Beach. Convention Center, Miami, États-Unis.

Acquavella Galleries, New York, États-Unis

Suzhou Museum, Chine

2008

China macht Druck – Moderne chinesische Druckgrafik. Staedtische Galerie Bietigheim, Allemagne

Cina contemporanea – Arte fra Identita e Transformazione. Palazzo delle Espozioni, Rome, Italie

Crouching Paper, Hidden Dragon. F2 Gallery, Pékin, Chine

The olymp – Works on Paper, Galerie Burkhard Eikelmann, Duesseldorf, Allemagne

Writing on the Wall: Chinese New Realism and Avant-garde in the 80s and 90s, Groninger Museum, Groningen, Pays-Bas

Made in China – Print Art Part 2. Art China Gallery, Hamburg, Allemagne

The revolution continues: New Chinese Art. New Saatchi Gallery, Londres, R.U

Selected. ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai, Chine

2007

Thermocline of Art – New Asian Waves, ZKM (Center for Art and Media), Karlsruhe, Allemagne

ShanghART at Art’38 Basel, Art Fair, Suisse

Individual Positions 1, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai, Chine

Time Difference, Initial Access, Wolverhampton, R.U

Floating – A New Generation of Art in China, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Corée du Sud

China Now. Cobra Museum, Amstelveen, Pays-Bas

2006

Zhou Chunya, Zeng Fanzhi and Ji Dachun, LONGRUN ART Pékin, Chine

2005

Majong, Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg, Kunstmuseum Bern, Suisse

China, contemporary painting, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio, Bologne, Italie

2004

Exhibition of Nominate for Art Documentation, Art Gallery of Hubei Academy of Art, Chine

2003

Left Hand, Right Hand – A Sino-German Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Beijing 798 Space, Beijing, China; Invitational Gallery Exhibition, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, Chine

2002

Paris-Pekin, Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris, France

The First Triennial of Chinese Arts, Guangzhou Art Museum, Guangzhou, Chine

Korean and Chinese painting – 2002 New Expression, Seoul Arts Center, Corée du Sud

2001

Towards a New Image, Twenty years of Chinese Contemporary Painting, National Art Museum, Pékin ; Shanghai Art Museum; Guangzhou Art Museum; Modem Art Museum, Chengdu, Chine

2000

Futuro Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, The Contemporary Art Center of Macau (CACOM), Macao

1998

It Is Me, Forbidden City, Pékin, Chine

1997

8+8-1, Hong Kong, Londres, Hambourg.

Question Marks, Singapore Art Museum Singapour

1996

China!, Touring Exhibition, Allemagne, Autriche, Danemark, Pologne (until 1998)

Reality, Present and Future, International Art Palace, Pékin, Chine

1995

Avant gardes Artistiques Xineses, Santa Monica Art Centre Barcelone, Espagne

Beyond Ideology: New Art from China, Der Haus der Kulture das Welt Hambourg, Allemagne

1994

Exhibition of Works Selected by Art Critics, China Art Gallery Pékin, Chine

1993

China’s New Art Post- 1989, Touring Exhibition, Hong Kong, Sidney (jusqu’a 1997)

1992

Guangzhou Biennal – Oil Painting of the Nineties, Guangzhou Convention Centre, Chine

1991

Chinese Oil Painting for Fifty Years, International Exhibition Center, Pékin, Chine