CURRENT EXHIBITION- CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ART: LOFT SELECTION- MAY 12TH
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Group exhibition
For the "Art Saint-Germain des Prés" event, Galerie Loft presents the group exhibition Contemporary Chinese Art.
For the “Art Saint-Germain des Prés” event, Galerie Loft presents the group exhibition Contemporary Chinese Art.
Featuring Chen Man, Chen Weinong, Liu Baomin, Li Chaoxiong, Li Lihong, Ma Sibo, Sui Jianguoi, Qiu Zhije, Wang Keping, and other renowned artists as well as emerging talents.
The exhibition opens on May 12th, 2016.
SUI JIANGUO, LEGACY MANTLE, Champ de la sculpture (Sculpture Field) in 1999 on the Champs-Élysées
QIU ZHIJIE, TATTOO II,1994, Silver gelatin print
MA SIBO, OIL ON CANVAS, CINÉMA (Cinema), 2010
HONG HAO, My Thing NO.6, 2002, Silver gelatin print.
The work was presented at the group exhibition “All Unique, All Identical” at the Alfred Canel Museum.
Les artistes
Chen Man
Born in 1980 in Beijing (China). Holding a diploma from the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing, Chen Man began her photography career, making many covers for Vision, a leading fashion magazine. She had already taken photos for many fashion magazines at the age of 29. After being an emerging star in the world of fashion in China,…
Chen Weinong
Son of a calligrapher, Chen Weinong, born in 1962 in the province of Zhejiang, graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou in 1988. He freely interprets the rules of calligraphy; his art blends abstract art techniques with traditional Chinese calligraphy. He knew how to keep from a fairly classic education a very learned use, very mastered of the…
Liu Baomin
Born in 1968 in Xi’an, China. Living and working in Beijing, China.Liu Baomin got his diploma in 1989 from the Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts (major in oil painting). The core of his work is the tension between reality and illusion, in an hyperrealistic manner consisting of portrayals seen through wet glass. He believes that it is because of consumerism that people put…
Arx Lee (Li Chaoxiong)
In research of the meaning of life, Li Chaoxiong (Arx Lee), a genius illustrator, gradually creates different poetic universes where the heroes and dreamers live. Li Chaoxiong, alias ARX LEE, is a Chinese artist who was born in 1978 in Zhongshan, Canton. In the end of 1990s, he begun to present his early works in group exhibitions in Canton, Beijing and Japan…
Li Lihong
Born in 1974 in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, China, Li Lihong graduated in 1996 from the Academy of Arts and Design, Tsinghua University of Beijing, and then in 2005 earned a MFA from the Jingdezhen Ceramics Institute. He is now a professor of Chinese porcelain work at Fudan University in Shanghai, living and creating in this city. A skillful Chinese ceramic…
Ma Sibo
Born in 1979 in Tianjin (in the Beijing region), Ma Sibo graduated from the Fine Arts School of Tianjin after studying oil painting for three years. In 2002, he went to France to continue his studies at the Beaux-arts Toulon and then at the Beaux-arts Nîmes where he respectively obtained the diplomas of DNAP and DNSEP in 2004 and 2006.…
Sui Jianguo
Born in Qingdao, Shandong province in 1956, Sui Jianguo studied sculpture at the Shandong Academy of Fine Arts, then at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, where he now serves as a professor and director of the sculpture department. World famous for his dinosaurs and his Mao jackets, Sui Jianguo has exhibited all over the world and his…
Qiu Zhijie
Qiu Zhijie is born in Fujian Province in China in 1969. In 1992 he graduated from The National Academy Of Fine Art and he works in the printmaking department. But now he lives in Beijing as a full-time artist. As well as an art critic and curator. Qiu is known for his calligraphy, photography and video installation works. He had…
Wang Keping
Wang Keping is one of the most eminent members of Stars Art Group (xing xing 星星画会) , a foundational movement of the contemporary Chinese avant-garde active in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Wang's wood sculptures and his early theatre play uncovered the political opponents’ detention conditions, which also gave rise to sharp polemics in the press in Taiwan and…