Cao Dan

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Cao is the family name here, Dan is the first name.

Cao Dan ( Chinese  曹 丹 , Pinyin Cáo Dān ; * 1960 in Wuhan , Hubei Province ) is a contemporary Chinese painter.

Life

Cao Dan graduated from the Hubei Art College in Wuhan in 1982 . In addition to his work as a freelance artist, he now works at his former training facility as an art professor. Cao Dan has been working on a series called the Butterfly Effect for some time . This title refers to the short story A Sound of Thunder (1952) by Ray Bradbury . The story is that when a butterfly flaps its wings it causes a series of great changes. Cao Dan projects this idea onto the contemporary change in the world economy and the sudden resistance to the title Made in China and the associations that it evokes. In Chinese culture, the butterfly is seen as an analogy of female consciousness. Cao Dan Butterfly Effect's series features women penetrating the male area of ​​products. The works of art are painted in Cao Dan's typical style, for which bright colors are characteristic.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

2008

• “Butterfly File”, Hubei College of the Arts, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
• "Hubei!" Edward Pranger Oriental Art Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Group exhibitions (selection)

2008

• “Wuhan 2008 Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition”, Hubei University of the Arts, Wuhan, China

2007

• “Forms of Concepts: The Reform of Concepts of Chinese Contemporary Art 1987–2007 - The New Generation and Bad Art”, 2007 “Wuhan 2nd Documentary Exhibition of Fine Arts”, Wuhan, China
• “The 8th China Art Festival. Fifty Anniversaries of Art Exhibition of Hubei Artists Association ”, Wuhan, China
• “3rd Academic Art Exhibition”, Hubei University of the Arts, Wuhan, China

1995

• “Twenty Anniversaries”, International Art Exhibition, Nanjing, China

1994

• “8th Hubei Art Exhibition”, Wuhan, China

1993

• “93 Chinese Oil Painting Biennale Exhibition”, China Art Gallery, Beijing, China

1991

• “Oil Painting Exhibition”, Wuhan, China

1989

• “China / Avant-garde Art Exhibition”, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
• “Contemporary Art Exhibition of Five Chinese Artists”, USA

1988

• “Hubei Oil Painting Exhibition”, Wuhan, China

1987

• “Hubei Youth Art Festival Exhibition”, Beijing, China

1986

• “Tribe. Tribe First Round Exhibition ”, Wuhan, China

1985

• “6th China National Art Exhibition”, Beijing, China

literature

• Wei Guangqing: Butterfly Effect . Hubei Fine Arts Publishing, Hubei 2008, ISBN 978-7-5394-2201-5 .

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Cao is the family name here, Dan is the first name.