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TRIUMPH|West Bund Art & Design Booth B120
2023.11.04




TRIUMPH GALLERY is pleased to announce that the gallery will attend the 10th edition of West Bund Art & Design at West Bund, Shanghai from November 9 to 12, 2023Booth B120.


As a first-time participant in the art fair, the gallery will present Fang Lijun Solo Project at the West Bund Art Center Hall B.


Fang Lijun's series of portraits, which he began creating in 2015, is more obviously directed, he chose to replace oil paintings and prints with ink paintings, capturing the personality of the faces in an extremely exaggerated, comic-like expression. Fang Lijun's intention is to express the character of the person, and to convey the relationship between him and the person he is painting through the portrayal of the "face".


Fang Lijun's ceramics seek to break with people's preconceived notions of what they are, and to open up the enormous space of reference behind ceramics. In repeated experiments, porcelain making is pushed to the tipping point of extreme fragility, existence and collapse, where success means the labor is nullified, and then back to square one.




WEST BUND ART & DESIGN


VIP PREVIEW

11/09    13:00 - 19:00
11/10    12:00 - 13:00


PUBLIC DAYS

11/10    13:00 - 18:00
11/11    13:00 - 18:00
11/12    12:00 - 18:00


VENUE

WEST BUND ART CENTER  HALL B
NO.2555 LONGTENG AVENUE, XUHUI DISTRICT






Artists
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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