Xi'an Art Museum's new exhibition "Wonderland - FANG LIJUN Ink painting" will open on July 16

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2022.07.13

Artist Fang Lijun's solo exhibition "Wonderland - FANG LIJUN Ink painting" will open at Xi'an Art Museum on July 16, 2022, and the exhibition will last until October 16, 2022. This exhibition will showcase Fang Lijun's more than ten years of exploration of contemporary ink art. Fang Lijun's ink works are mainly head portraits, presenting group portraits of the artist's friends as the main characters. Wonderland - FANG LIJUN Ink painting Artist Fang Lijun Curator Lu Hong Opening 2022. 7. 16（Saturday） 16:00 Duration 2022. 7. 16 - 10. 16 Venue Hall 3, 2/F, Xi'an Art Museum Artist introduction Fang Lijun was born in Handan, Hebei Province, China. He graduated from the printmaking department of China Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1989, and now lives in Beijing. As the most important representative of the new art trend in China in the 1990s, Fang Lijun created the discourse mode of "cynical realism" together with other artists of this trend, and created the image of shaved head created in a series of works since 1988. It has become the classic symbol of contemporary art, presenting the boring mood and the vicious living state of China in the first half of the 1980s and the 1990s, or more broadly speaking, it symbolizes the humanistic and psychological feelings of contemporary people. To date, Fang Lijun has held more than 50 solo exhibitions in major art museum in both East and the West. His participation includes the Venice Biennale , Sǎo Paulo Biennial and Kwangju Art Biennial. And his works have been collected by more than 40 important public institutions at home and abroad, including the Museum of Modern Art (USA), Seattle Art Museum(USA), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (USA), Centre de G. Pompidou (France), Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst (Germany), Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam(Holland), The National Gallery of Australia (Australia), Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (Japan), Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo(Japan), Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art(Japan), National Art Museum of China(China), Shanghai Art Museum (China), Guangdong Art Museum (China), He Xiangning Art Museum (China), Hunan Museum（China）, CAFA Art Museum(China), he is one of the Chinese contemporary artists with the largest collection by major art institutions in the world, So far, more than 40 personal albums and related publications have been published. For his outstanding influence in the realm of art, Fang lijun has been employed as a visiting professor by more than 20 universities in China.

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Fang Lijun

Fang Lijun (b. 1963, Handan, Hebei) graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Printmaking Department in 1989. In July of the same year, he resided in the Yuanmingyuan area, becoming a key advocate of the "Yuanmingyuan Artists' Village." In 1993, he established the Songzhuang studio, contributing to the formation of the "Songzhuang Artists' Village." In 2014, he founded the "Archive of Contemporary Art of China," systematically organizing the development of Chinese contemporary art. Since 2004, Fang Lijun has been appointed as a guest professor and graduate mentor at more than twenty institutions, including the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Jingdezhen Ceramic University, Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts, Wuhan University, and Hubei Academy of Fine Arts.

Fang Lijun’s solo exhibitions have been held in major art institutions worldwide, including the Ashmolean Museum Oxford, Ludwig Museum, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Japan Foundation, Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, and Musée Ariana, et cetera. Domestic retrospectives have been mounted at the Shanghai Art Museum, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Macau Museum of Art, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Hunan Provincial Museum, United Art Museum, Minsheng Art Museum, and He Art Museum, among other significant venues. Additionally, he has been consistently invited by mainstream international exhibitions, such as the Venice Biennale, Gwangju Biennale, São Paulo Art Biennial, and Shanghai Biennale.

Fang's works are permanently collected by international museums, in particular the Museum of Modern Art, Centre Pompidou, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Seattle Art Museum, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Queensland Art Gallery, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, and Fukuoka Asian Art Museum. Within China, his works are held by the National Art Museum of China, Contemporary Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum, He Xiangning Art Museum, and Guangdong Museum of Art.

Furthermore, through his artistic career, Fang Lijun has published over 50 monographs, including Fang Lijun: Chronological Notes, Fang Lijun: Works Catalogue, Fang Lijun: Cliff in the Clouds, Fang Lijun: Forbidden Zone, Fang Lijun Prints, and Surviving Like a Stray Dog. In 1993, his work Series Two No. 2 appeared on the cover of The New York Times.

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