Fang Lijun

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Fang Lijun (* 1963 in Hebei , China ) is a Chinese artist whose works are classified as "cynical realism". In 1993, Fang Lijun made his international breakthrough at the Venice Biennale . Bald men with their mouths half open often appear in pictures and sculptures, which has become Lijun's trademark. The artist lives and works in Beijing .

Cynical realism

As early as the 1990s, Fang Lijun became known in China and the West for his illustrative, striking style and for the portrayal of his bald, stereotypical, sometimes smiling or simple facial expression. Since then, art critics have been using the term cynical realism to characterize his works. The figures and faces in the images of Cynical Realism are distorted in terms of their facial expressions and gestures and seem to be chosen at random. They have a touch of self-irony. You can see bald young men in various movements: they yawn, smile, look serious or show other stereotypically impersonal expressions. In their massive 'boldness', his figures interpret the loss of direction of young people in China after 1989. While the faces and figures acted in a somewhat more precisely defined environment in the 1990s, his pictures from around 2000 show a condensed mass phenomenon and a growing stereotyping of the Faces. The individual becomes increasingly depersonalized and approaches that of the anonymous others in form, expression and facial expressions.

Reception in Europe

In October 2002, when Rolf Lauter became director of the Kunsthalle Mannheim, he met Alexander Ochs from Berlin to show young artists from Asia, especially China, with his support in the museum. In 2003 Lauter presented loans from Fang Lijun, Yue Minjun and Yang Shaobin in his second reorganization of the collection in a cross-cultural and cross-cultural constellation on the subject of "EigenRaum" with 19th century portrait sculptures by Maillol and Rodin , light boxes by Jeff Wall and works by Alex Cat . Especially the work " SARS " (later called "Untitled") by Fang Lijun, a large-format, brightly colored woodcut, aroused particular interest from the public. "Juxtaposed with the pictures by Katz is a work composed of seven printed scrolls measuring 400 x 854 cm by the Chinese artist Fang Lijun. His work, labeled" SARS ", addresses the increasing tendency towards the" de-individualization "of people, the" shining "danger of the virus to the crowds in China too. " Unfortunately, Rolf Lauter's purchase request was not granted in Mannheim at the time. Copies of the work are now in the collections of MoMA and the Center Pompidou Paris.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 2009 “Sea & Sky” Kunsthalle Bielefeld , Germany
  • 2008 Kastrupgaardsamlingen, Kastrup, Denmark
  • 2006 "Life is Now", Galeri Nasional, Jakarta, Indonesia
  • 2006 Kupferstichkabinett Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany
  • 2006 "Fang Lijun: Today", Today Art Museum Beijing, China
  • 2005 National Gallery / China Art Museum, Beijing, China
  • 2004 "Fang Lijun - Life is Now", Alexander Ochs Galleries Berlin - Beijing, Berlin, Germany
  • 2002 "Fang Lijun, Between Beijing & Dali, woodcuts & paintings 1989 - 2002", Ludwig Forum for International Art Aachen, Germany

Works

  • Sans titre (SARS) , 2003, Xylographie sur papier, 400 × 854 cm, Inscriptions: Signé en chinois, numéroté, daté en bas sur chaque élément: 1/8 2003.2.1, 7 panneaux (rouleaux), Achat 2004, Numéro d 'inventaire: AM 2004-83. [2]
  • Autumn 2011 , painting shown at the 5th Chengdu Biennale 2011, Chengdu , Sichuan , People's Republic of China

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Booklet of the exhibition "Sea and Sky" in the Kunsthalle Bielefeld 2009
  2. ↑ http://www.artelino.com/artikel/fang-lijun.asp accessed on August 31, 2009
  3. ↑ http://www.artchina-gallery.de/index.php?id=1141 accessed on August 31, 2009
  4. ↑ http://www.88-mocca.org/#/artists/6 accessed on August 31, 2009
  5. ↑ Peng Lü; Bruce Gordon Doar (translation), A history of art in 20th-Century China , Milano: Charter, 2010. ISBN 978-8-8815-8779-7 . [1]
  6. ↑ ARCHIVE. In: ALEXANDER OCHS PRIVATE BERLIN. June 25, 2019, accessed on February 1, 2020 (German).
  7. ^ Rolf Lauter , Die Neue Kunsthalle II: natural - physical - sensual , Kunsthalle Mannheim November 24, 2003 - March 7, 2004, booklet with a tour of the exhibition.
  8. ↑ Installation view of the exhibition, “New Works / New Acquisitions” | MoMA. Accessed February 1, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Sans titre | Center Pompidou. Accessed February 1, 2020 (French).
  10. ^ Contemporary art from the Center Pompidou in Munich. Accessed February 1, 2020 .
  11. ↑ http://www.artchina-gallery.de/index.php?id=1142 accessed on August 31, 2009
  12. ↑ http://www.88-mocca.org/#/artists/6 accessed on August 31, 2009

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personal data
SURNAME Fang Lijun
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Hebei