Ho Kan
Ho Kan ( Chinese 霍 剛 , born July 23, 1932 in Nanjing, China , real Huo Hsueh-Kang ) is a Chinese conceptual artist .
Life
Huo Hsueh-Kan was accepted into the artistic branch of the Taipei School in 1950 and studied painting with Lee Chun-Shan. During his studies he joined the “ Ton Fan Group” and was also a member of the “Eight Great Outlaws”. He then traveled to Europe to study western art concepts and techniques. In particular, he devoted himself to calligraphy and stone inscriptions.
Back in China, Kan worked as a teacher at the Jingmei School and helped spread art teaching across the country. He later also trained art teachers in Taiwan. Ho Kan played an important role in the development of modern Chinese art history.
Exhibitions
- Taipei Fine Arts Museum , Taiwan
- Museo Novecento , Florence
- Museo delle culture del mondo , Genoa
literature
- Cecila Gibellini: Libri d'artista: le edizioni di Vanni Scheiwiller , 2007, ISBN 978-8-895133-03-4 .
- Giovanni Scheiwiller: Ho-Kan. Ed. All'insegna del pesce d'oro, 1973
- Maria Campitelli: Ho-Kan , Lattuada studio, 1992
- David Medalla: Three Plus One Equals Pia Pizzo, Ho Kan, Hsiao Chin, Li Yuan-Chia. Signals London, 1966
- Art International - Volume 4, 1962
- An-yi Pan, Jirong Zhu, Ellen B. Avril: Contemporary Taiwanese art in the era of contention. 2004, ISBN 978-9-5701-6927-0 .
Catalogs
- Michael Sullivan: Moderne chinese artists, a biographical dictionary . University of California Press , Berkeley 2006, ISBN 978-0-520-24449-8 .
- Xianren Pan: The Modernist Wave. Taiwan Art in the 1950s and 1960s . National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts , 2011, ISBN 978-986-02-8859-9 .
- Reverberations, Ho Kan . TFAM, Taipei Fine Arts Museum , 2017, ISBN 978-986-05-1543-5 .
Web links
- Ho Kan at invaluable.com
- Ho Kan. Solitaire excitement at chinatimes.com
- Ho Kan Oriental abstract art
- Quiet Peace Thought Ho Kan's coherent artistic creation
- Video footage of Ho Kan's exhibition in the Taipei Museum of Fine Arts, 2016 (YouTube video 15:17)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ottobre in asta, l'Italia premia i maestri antichi, le maioliche rinascimentali e il post-war, Stefano Cosenz, Il Sole 24 Ore, 7 de noviembre de 2016
- ↑ Short biography ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: lianggallery.com
- ^ Chang Li-li: The Search for the Avant-Garde 1946-69 . TFAM Collection Catalog (Taipei Fine Arts Museum), tome II, 2011. 2nd edition 2012. Chapter 11, ISBN 978-986-03-0997-3 .
- ^ Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Reverberations ‧ HO KAN
- ^ Genova Musei e Cultura, Comune di Genova
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ho, Kan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Huo Hsueh-Kang; Kan Ho |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | chinese concept artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 23, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nanjing , Jiangsu Province , Chine |