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Fabien Fryns
Fabien Fryns is a Belgian art dealer and collector, residing in Beijing since 2004. He has worked in the art world since 1986, specializing in contemporary Chinese art since 2000. Early life Fryns grew up in Belgium, and from 1984 to 1988 he attended the prestigious Le Rosey School in Switzerland. He first started dealing and collecting art in 1986, and has been active in the art world ever since. Upon graduating from Le Rosey with an IB, he was the youngest student to enroll in the two year History of Art Course at Christie’s London (1988-1990), graduating with a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts. Thereafter, he graduated from the European Business School (EBS) in London in 1994 with a Bachelor in International Business degree. In 1994 Fryns opened F2 Gallery Ltd, then located in the fabled Marbella Club Hotel in Marbella, Spain (1994-2004). Subsequently, Fryns partnered with UBS Private Banking and jointly opened Fabien Fryns Fine Art – UBS Cultural Centre in Marbella (1999 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beijing
} Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 million residents. It has an administrative area of , the third in the country after Guangzhou and Shanghai. It is located in Northern China, and is governed as a municipality under the direct administration of the State Council with 16 urban, suburban, and rural districts.Figures based on 2006 statistics published in 2007 National Statistical Yearbook of China and available online at archive. Retrieved 21 April 2009. Beijing is mostly surrounded by Hebei Province with the exception of neighboring Tianjin to the southeast; together, the three divisions form the Jingjinji megalopolis and the national capital region of China. Beijing is a global city and one of the world's leading centres for culture, diplomacy, politics, finance, busi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feng Shu
Feng Shu is a Chinese artist from Beijing who produces detailed skull and insect sculptures made from intricate hand-painted ceramic and steel. Life and work Shu was born in Beijing, China in 1981. He studied sculpture at the prestigious Central Academy of Fine Arts for both his Bachelor of Fine Arts (2005) and Masters of Fine Arts (2009). An artist in the 1980s generation of Chinese artists, his detailed painted ceramic and steel skulls and insects have been released in the “Beautiful Bugs Series.” In an interview, Shu stated his inspiration comes from growing up as an only child because of the one-child policy in China, "so it was a little lonely and boring. As a child, I was always outside looking for insects to play with." His works have been shown worldwide at F2 Gallery (Fabien Fryns Fabien Fryns is a Belgian art dealer and collector, residing in Beijing since 2004. He has worked in the art world since 1986, specializing in contemporary Chinese art since 2000. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wu Junyong
Wu Junyong (; born 1978) is a Chinese artist born in Putian, a city in Fujian province, China. He graduated from The China Academy of Art were he studied in both the Prinmaking and New Media departments. He now lives and works in Hangzhou. His predominant medium is paintings done on paper and animated films, though in recent years he has become infatuated with doing graffiti on the body and impromptu tattoos. Biography Trained as a printmaker, Wu studied new media at the China Academy of Art (CAA). Now, he is an instructor at CAA. His work, particularly the ''Opera'' series (Opera I, II and III) are a satirical comment on politics. Although Wu has lived and worked most of his life in China, he stands behind his political commentary as truthful of politicians and politics worldwide. His work comments on the way that politicians promote themselves in a surreal way. His artwork often uses signs and signals common in Chinese literature and life. Some of his latest work includes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chen Ke (artist)
Chen Ke (, born 1978 in Tongjiang, Sichuan, China) is a Chinese artist. She currently lives and works in Beijing. Having participated in numerous international and domestic exhibitions, Chen Ke has worked in a variety of media, including painting, sculpture and fashion design. Chen Ke is recognized as the most representative artist of the New Generation of Cartoon of China. Background Chen Ke was born in Tongjiang, Sichuan Province of China. When Chen Ke needed to select her major in the university, she read a book about Vincent Van Gogh. She was deeply touched by the story of Van Gogh and decided to major in oil painting. It was at this moment that she came up with the thought of becoming an artist. Following her graduation from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2002, she succeeded in getting her master's degree in oil painting in the same institute in 2005. Later, she came to Beijing with her husband to seek her dream of becoming an artist. Chen Ke thought all of her painting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zheng Guogu
Zheng Guogu (, born 1970) is an artist based in Yangjiang in the Guangdong province of China, one of three artists in the artist collective known as Yangjiang Group. In 1992, he graduated from the printmaking department of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. Guogu makes work in different media including photography, installation, painting and sculpture. His photographic work questions the post-Cultural Revolution generation’s attitudes to the world around them and has used of contact sheets to make storyboard A storyboard is a graphic organizer that consists of illustrations or images displayed in sequence for the purpose of pre-visualizing a motion picture, animation, motion graphic or interactive media sequence. The storyboarding process, i ...-like images. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sui Jianguo
Sui Jianguo (), professor and ex-chairman of the Department of Sculpture in Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, is a contemporary Chinese artist. Biography Sui was born in Qingdao, China in 1956.Link text additional text. Both of his parents were factory workers and were largely absent during his early childhood due to the workload imposed on them by the Mao government.Link text , additional text. Growing up, Sui witnessed the harsh realities of the Mao years. During this time Maoist socialist realism became the approved art style. This style generally portrayed Maoist ideals in a romantic positive light. These images were used to create a cult of personality for Mao. At the age ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hung Liu
Hung Liu (劉虹) (17 February 1948 – 7 August 2021) was a Chinese Americans, Chinese-born American contemporary artist. She was predominantly a painter, but also worked with mixed-media and site-specific installation and was also one of the first artists from China to establish a career in the United States. A ten-year retrospective of Liu's work traveled nationally in the U.S. in 1998 and 1999. ''Summoning Ghosts: The Art of Hung Liu'' was a retrospective collection of Liu's work with paintings from more than 40 collections displayed. Early life and work in China Hung Liu was born in Changchun, China in 1948. Shortly after her birth, her father was imprisoned for being a member of the Kuomintang, Kuomintang of China. In 1958, Hung Liu followed her aunt to Beijing at the age of 10 and entered the famous 北师大 女附中 (now Experimental High School Attached to Beijing Normal University, The Experimental High School Attached to Beijing Normal University). In 1970, two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feng Zhengjie
Feng Zhengjie () (born 1968 in Sichuan Province, China) is an artist based in Beijing and Jeju Island of South Korea. Originally a high-school and college art teacher in Sichuan, he came to Beijing in 1995. His best-known work is his ''Portrait of China'' series, very large Warhol-style oil portraits, in a red-and-turquoise palette, of Chinese fashion model faces with vacant diverging eyes (his signature style). Critics view his work as a critique of contemporary consumer society. His early paintings were inspired by 1930s Shanghai posters. His more recent work is based on the red and green of traditional Chinese New Year Chinese New Year is the festival that celebrates the beginning of a New Year, new year on the traditional lunisolar calendar, lunisolar and solar Chinese calendar. In Sinophone, Chinese and other East Asian cultures, the festival is commonly r ... art, the colors made "more acid, a representation of the flashy, commercial nature of modern China". Zhengj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shi Xinning
Shi Xinning (石心宁; born 1969, in Liaoning Province, China) is a painter based in Beijing. Influenced by both social realism and European styles, he specialises in historical paintings that insert Mao Zedong into iconic social and political photos of the 20th century - such as the Yalta Conference, the HUAC hearings, and a state procession of the British Queen Mother. He has shown work internationally in many exhibitions including ''Mahjong'' at the Kunstmuseum in Bern, ''China Art Now'' at the Marella Gallery in Milan, ''China Contemporary Painting'' at Fondazione Carisbo in Bologna, and ''Landscapes'' at the Shanghai Gallery of Art. He is represented by the Marella Gallery in Beijing and Milan, Shine Art Space in Shanghai, and bARNDTin Berlin. Life and work Shi Xinning was born in 1969, in Liaoning Province, China to his parents who were People's Liberation Army members. Xinning received a formal education in art at the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Li Songsong
Li Songsong (李松松; born 1973 in Beijing) is a Chinese artist working in Beijing. His paintings recreate public resource images of modern Chinese history, such as the National People's Congress. Li works on large scale canvases with oil paint. Biography Li Songsong is renowned for his thickly layered paintings that animate the fragmentary nature of images and memory, paying particular attention to the people, events, and themes of modern and contemporary Chinese history. Li received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in oil painting from Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA). He was one of the first Chinese artists to establish a studio in the 798 Arts District of Beijing in 2002. He uses images primarily from newspapers, magazines, the internet, book, and film stills. Despite this heavy use of political images, Li does not consider himself a political artist. His deconstruction of the images removes bias and invites interpretation. He has been called a member of China's "in-betw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liu Ye (artist)
Liu Ye (; born in 1964) is a Beijing-based contemporary Chinese painter known for his bright-hued paintings of childlike female figures, his favorite cartoon character Miffy the bunny and works inspired by Piet Mondrian. Liu Ye is part of a generation of artists who grew up during the Cultural Revolution. However, unlike most acclaimed Chinese contemporary art, his works have little political implications. Instead, he prefers to use a universal language to depict his inner world. His work has been exhibited extensively in China, Europe and the United States. Early life Liu Ye was born and raised in Beijing. His father was an author of children's books, who was compelled to spend much of his time working in countryside under Mao Zedong's Down to the Countryside Movement, kept many banned books hidden away in a black chest under his bed, including Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales, tales by Alexander Pushkin, Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Journey to the West and The Water Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zheng Lu
Zheng Lu (郑路) (born 1978 in Inner Mongolia, China) is an artist based in Beijing. Zheng Lu studied at Lu Xun Fine Arts Academy from 1998 to 2003 before continuing to Beijing's Central Academy of Fine Arts from 2004 until 2007. While still in school, Zheng won the LVMH Prize, which provided the artist with three months training at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (ENSBA) in Paris. Zheng has mainly produced sculpture and installation work with steel structure, and also two-dimensional, multimedia, stage and public art. Zheng Lu's first solo exhibitions were in Beijing, starting in 2009 at New Age Gallery with "Interpreting Nonexistence." In 2010 at F2 Gallery F2 Gallery was a contemporary art gallery in Beijing, China founded by art dealer Fabien Fryns. Established in 2005, the gallery is located in the Caochangdi Art District and has held exhibitions by both Western and Chinese contemporary artists,Far ..., Zheng had a showing of sculptures titled, "Zheng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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