Cao Jun

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Cao Jun (Chinese 吳少湘, * 1966 in Jiangyan , Jiangsu Province , China ) is a Chinese painter who lives in the USA .

Life

Cao Jun was born in Jiangyan , Jiangsu Province, China in 1966 . In 1989, he graduated in mining engineering at the Shandong University of Science & Technology with the bachelor and devoted in the years to his life increasingly of art. In 1997 he received first place at the exhibition "Shandong Shandong Chinese Fine Arts", which was awarded by the prestigious "China Artists Association". In 1999 his paintings were selected by the Chinese Association of Artists for the national exhibition "Flower & Bird Painting". The China Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing awarded him an award for calligraphy in 2001. In 2002 he emigrated to New Zealand and founded a gallery in Auckland and his own museum in Wuxi, China.

Many of his expressive works have been published in art magazines, journals and books and are in contemporary art collections in numerous museums around the world. These include the National Art Museum of China , the Center Pompidou , the Parliament of New Zealand, the Rangitoto College et alii. In 2012, Cao Jun received a PhD from Nanjing University of the Arts. His works went around the world in 2012, curated by the International Olympic Committee. One of his paintings also left this world: On October 24, 2014 Jun's work Space of Seeking Dream was sent to the moon in an unmanned Chang'e-5 space probe. Works by the best Chinese artists were on board this probe. In 2017, Cao Jun worked with Steven Rockefeller Jr. to create the installation Breath of Earth , in which the violent waves near the Bahamas - photographed by Steven - touch the majestic mountains designed by Cao Jun. The artist currently lives in the USA. In 2018, Cao Jun was able to exhibit his works at The McMullen Museum of Art in Boston College as part of his first American retrospective, Cao Jun: Hymns to Nature . His oeuvre was presented by the philosopher and curator John Sallis and the art historian and director of the McMullen Museum of Art, Nancy Netzer.

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The complexity of Cao Jun's oeuvre results from his many different experiences. After quitting engineering, he began to paint traditional calligraphy using ink and watercolor. His talent was immediately recognized and his work was exhibited and awarded.

During his stays abroad - first in New Zealand and then in the USA - he came into contact with western contemporary art, which revolutionized his own style. From this point on, Cao Jun began to create, among other things, delightful warm-toned - often red and orange - calligraphy, which were enriched with abstract, often blue or black watercolor surfaces. The stylistic juxtaposition of the abstract, cold, modern West with the figurative, warm, traditional East is perfect here. Thematically, the artist uses these surfaces to indicate the spiritual presence of the figuratively represented nature. In this sense, the comparison of music often mentioned by the artist is essential: Just as the art of music expresses the omnipresent presence of time with instruments through its rhythms and sounds, so Cao Jun's works express the spiritual essence of the physical world through colors and shapes using watercolor or oil.

This concept is so relevant in his oeuvre that he turned the abstracting surfaces into independent large-format works. With liquid oil paints, which he uses as superbly as the old calligraphy masters used to draw ink on silk, he creates his art layer by layer on horizontally lying canvases. The results are virtuoso masterpieces that are reminiscent of visions of space, underwater landscapes or bird's-eye views.

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • Cao Jun: Hymns to Nature , McMullen Museum of Art, Boston , USA , 2018
  • Zibo, Shandong , China , 2013
  • Cao Jun Art Museum , Wuxi , China , 2011
  • Century Development Inspiring Painting , The National Art Museum of China, Beijing , China , 2011
  • Cao Jun Art Exhibition , Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum, Nanjing , China , 2010
  • Cao Jun Art Exhibition , Yangzhou Art Museum Grand Opening, Yangzhou , China , 2010
  • Cao Jun Art Exhibition-Where New Zealand Meets China , National Art Museum of China, Beijing , China , 2009
  • Cao Jun at the Henglu Art Museum, Hangzhou , Zhejiang , China , 2006
  • Cao Jun Art Exhibition-Where New Zealand Meets China, 2005

Group exhibitions

Awards

  • Six Star Diamond Awards, Six Star Diamond Awards Ceremony, New York City , USA , 2018
  • Gold medal, Salon du Carrousel du Louvre , Paris , France , 2013
  • China Patriotic Huabiao, China Federation Of Patriotic Projects, China , 2011
  • Outstanding Artist, 2nd International Forum of Painting and Calligraphy Development, Taiwan , 2011
  • Advanced Certificate in Fine Arts, China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing , China , 2001
  • 1st place , Shandong Chinese Fine Arts, organized by the China Artists Association Shandong, China , 1997

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Cao Jun Biography - Cao Jun on artnet. Retrieved February 11, 2019 .
  2. ↑ 'Cao Jun: Hymns to Nature' at BC's McMullen Museum. Retrieved February 11, 2019 .
  3. ↑ 'Cao Jun: Hymns to Nature' at BC's McMullen Museum. Retrieved February 11, 2019 .
  4. ^ Artist unveils gift. Accessed February 11, 2019 .
  5. ^ Artist unveils gift. Accessed February 11, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Steven Rockefeller & Cao Jun Collaborate on artwork of Bahamas Landscape. Retrieved February 11, 2019 (American English).
  7. ^ McMullen Museum: Cao Jun: Hymns to Nature. Retrieved February 11, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Stephanie Liu: Cao Jun Gives Modern Twist to Traditional Artistry. In: The Heights. February 12, 2018, Retrieved February 11, 2019 (American English).
  9. ^ Cao Jun , McMullen Museum of Art
  10. ^ New Zealand-Chinese artist Cao Jun presents painting exhibition - NAMOC. Retrieved February 11, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Cao Jun Biography - Cao Jun on artnet. Retrieved February 11, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Cao Jun . ( uchicago.edu [accessed February 11, 2019]).
  13. ↑ Cao Jun . ( com.au [accessed February 11, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Cao, Jun
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cao Jun; 曹, 俊
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Jiangyan , Jiangsu Province , China