TRIUMPH GALLERY Announces Representation of Artist Ji Dachun

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2022.11.20

TRIUMPH GALLERY Announces Representation of Artist Ji Dashun (b.1968, China). An Acrylic Skin：Recent Works of Ji Dachun will be presented at the end of 2022. Ji Dachun's works are usually a combination of traditional Chinese painting forms and western postmodern contradictory images, thus exploring a kind of East-West dialectics. At the same time, his painting style is witty and humorous, the artistic conception is ethereal and quiet, full of romantic poetry and Zen. In particular, his choice and persistence in painting, in the increasingly popular environment of installation, video, pictures and multimedia means, more highlights his unique charm of expression and profound significance. As one of the most representative contemporary artists in China, Ji Dachun is widely noticed for his distinctive personal style. Ji Dachun has held solo exhibitions at Ludwig Museum (Koblenz, Germany), Museum of Contemporary Art (Rome, Italy), Ulens Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China), Museum of Bern (Bern, Switzerland), Museum of Posco (Seoul, South Korea) and other art institutions. His works have been exhibited in the 56th Venice Biennale, the Gwangju Biennale 2021 Special Exhibition, the 1st Chinese Art Triennale, the 2001 Chengdu Biennale, the 2000 Shanghai Biennale, the 1st Chinese Oil Painting Biennale and the 2nd Chinese Oil Painting Biennale. Ji Daichun's works have been exhibited in Lausanne State Art Museum (Lausanne, Switzerland), Marta Herfford Museum (Herfford, Germany), Museum of Contemporary Art (Bonn, Germany), Vienna Museum of Modern Art (Vienna, Austria), Bern Museum of Fine Arts (Bern, Switzerland), World Palace of Culture (Berlin, Germany), Hamburg City Art Museum (Hamburg, Germany) and Sarles Museum of Modern Art (Salzburg, Austria), Museum Ludwig (Koblenz, Germany), Museum Mayol (Paris, France), PasquArt Art Center (Switzerland), He Xiangning Art Museum (Shenzhen, China), Liu Haisu Art Museum (Shanghai, China), Guangzhou Art Museum (Guangzhou, China), Shenzhen Art Museum (Shenzhen, China), Jinji Lake Art Museum (Suzhou, China), Yanhuang Art Museum (Beijing, China), Zenda Art Museum (Shanghai, China), Times Art Museum (Beijing, China), Tainan City Art Center (Taiwan, China), Art Museum of Hubei Institute of Fine Arts (Wuhan, Hubei), Yue Art Museum (Beijing, China), ARTCLOUD Art Heart (Shenzhen, China), Canggu Contemporary Art Space (Shenzhen, China) and other well-known domestic and international art institutions. ARTIST Ji Dachun (b.1968, China) was born in Jiangsu, China in 1968. He graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Oil Painting Department, Studio No.4, China in 1993. Currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Beijing, China

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Ji Dachun

Ji Dachun was born in 1968 in Nantong, Jiangsu, China. He graduated from Central Academy of Fine Arts, Oil Painting Department, Beijing, China in 1993. As one of the most representative Chinese contemporary artists, Ji Dachun is widely noticed for his distinctive personal style. His paintings are witty, humorous, ethereal and tranquil, and full of romantic poetry and Zen. In particular, his choice and persistence in easel painting, in an environment where installations, images, pictures, and multimedia methods are becoming more popular, it highlights its unique expressive charm and profound significance.

After having produced many of his now-widely recognized figurative paintings from his early career, Ji Dachun (b. 1968) begins to gravitate towards acrylic, a medium that is comparatively lighter and less saturated than oil paint. Initially he was obsessed with the viscous pictorial effect of acrylic, and later on there were his serial explorations of the themes of “Black” and “White”. Throughout this entire process, he has experimented with Payne’s gray—which he considered an unstable pigment color—in terms of how it presents different shades of transparencies, textures, and tonal layers on the canvas. He experimented so as to grasp the relationship between the subject of paint, the residue, and the image. Through this project, Ji Dachun endeavors to grasp his own position within the coordination of (art) history and reality and comes up with his own rationales to experiment with—or deconstruct—paint in a perhaps attempt to approximate the boundaries of finite things.

Ji has held solo exhibitions at LudwigMuseum (Koblenz,Germany), MACRO Museo d‘Arte Contemporanea Roma (Rome, Italy), Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China), Kunstmuseum Bern (Bern, Switzerland), Posco Museum (Seoul, South Korea) and other art institutions. His works have been exhibited in the 56th Venice Biennial, 2012 Gwangju Biennale Special Exhibition, The First Triennial of Chinese Arts, 2001 Chengdu Biennale, 2000 Shanghai Biennale, the 1st China Oil Painting Biennale and the 2nd 2ed Annual China Oil Painting Exhibition.

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