Ling Jian

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Ling Jian ( Chinese  凌 健 , Pinyin Líng Jiàn ; * 1963 in Weifang , Shandong Province , People's Republic of China ) is a Chinese artist and is considered an important exponent of New Chinese Art.

Life

Training - Moving to the West

In the 1980s, Ling Jian studied art at Quinghua University in Beijing . He earned his money u. a. as a painter of film posters and large brochures for cinemas. In 1986 he made his academic degree. The artist spent the 1990s in German-speaking Europe, mainly in Vienna and Hamburg . In the Austrian capital, he became personally close to the painter Ernst Fuchs , the founder of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism . Jian was creative in Hamburg and other major German cities and had his first work exhibitions with his own paintings and installations. In the first decade of the current millennium, Jian moved his center of life back to China, without giving up a permanent connection to Germany , primarily Berlin . At the same time, Jian's fame spread first in Europe, then in the USA and, starting from Beijing, throughout Asia. The artist lives and works mainly in Beijing.

Back in China

After Ling returned to China, he saw his homeland in the context of his world experience. For him the inner world has become the outer one. The resulting artistic result catapults him into the international discourse. Presumably from this developed the great, worldwide interest in Ling Jian's paintings.

For Ling Jian, home means not only refuge, but also a stage. His connection with the so-called New Chinese Art is unmistakable and significantly shaped by him.

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The means of Asian and Western cultures merge in Ling Jian's work. They make a universal statement. Ling Jian's Pop Art is fed by old Anglo-American and new Sino-Japanese sources (magazines, advertising, cinema) and mixes in a dramatic-critical way with his childhood memories, which he made out of an anti-pop environment. For twenty years of his life, the native Chinese was exposed to the influences of western art and life. His clearly show the tension between truth and staging.

Pop surrealism today - inspired by Dalí's surrealism

With a view to Dalí's self-staging, Ling Jian presents in his painting Dalí by Ling Jian Salvador Dalí in the center, flanked by his wife Gala (muse) and Ernst Fuchs (quasi Dalí's subsequent painter friend), in between representatives of the existential - i.e. monetary - apparatus such as gallery owners, personal speakers and a museum director. The scene represents a moment during a museum opening. Strangely, Dalí opened his museums many times. And here, too, one can assume that it is not the first opening. (Later actually confirmed by Ernst Fuchs). Jian shows how Dalí evokes the vital attention to his work, which he also seems to marvel at with great interest. Dalí's surrealism has an impact in Ling Jian's works. Jian uses his extraordinary ability to paint impressively realistically, to combine people and objects or to alienate them in order to make a statement about the truth of suffering and beauty. Jian paints, among other things, young, attractive Asian women and combines their almost flawless grace with the symbols of their sometimes brutal or hollow, social circumstances. The artist says: “ The cold skin of the women in my painting symbolizes a high degree of spiritual indifference and melancholy, which would disappear if idealized. "(Quote according to the official homepage)

Ling's art creates a continuity between the cultural poles of the West and the East. She locates herself indefinitely in between and shows a fascinating mixture of mind through its artistic manner. Ling's current work is also regarded as an accusatory commentary against the bondage of materialism, which, even more in China than in the West, leads to women artificially adapting their bodies to the respective fashion taste.

His art influences not only New Chinese Art, but also international contemporary art in general.

criticism

Ling Jian criticizes the smoothness of his style and the exploitation of his own desires. The artist counters this criticism by saying that he is not creative in order to sell, but rather to provoke unrest and to deconstruct the modern process of seduction through visual language.

Exhibitions

Group exhibitions

  • 2006 Beaufort 2nd Triennial of Contemporary Art
  • 2006 PMMK
  • 2007 Hong Kong Artwalk , Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong
  • 2008 China Gold , Musée Maillol , Paris
  • 2008 Asian Contemporary Art , Salzburg
  • 2008 Rudolf Budja Gallery , Salzburg
  • 2009 Max Lang Group Show , New York

Solo exhibitions

  • 1991 Ling Jian , Lochte Gallery, Hamburg
  • 1993 Ling Jian , Schwind Gallery, Frankfurt am Main
  • 1995 White Room , White Room Gallery, Hamburg
  • 1996 Ling Jian , Promotion Program, Art Cologne, Cologne
  • 1997 Ling Jian , Lochte Gallery, Hamburg
  • 1999 Axis of Time , Kampnagel - Medienpark, Hamburg
  • 2000 Private Journey , Asian Fine Arts Pruess & Ochs Gallery, Berlin
  • 2002 Asian Fashion - Asian Vibes , Pruess & Ochs Gallery, Berlin
  • 2002 Sense of Nirvana , Galerie van der Straeten, Amsterdam
  • 2003 Sublime: New Works by Ling Jian , CourtYard Gallery, Beijing
  • 2004 Immaculate , Galerie van der Straeten, Amsterdam
  • 2005 Ling Jian One-Man Show , Art RAI Amsterdam
  • 2005 Chinese Visions , Artiscope Gallery, Brussels
  • 2007 The Last Idealism , Galerie Volker Diehl , Berlin
  • 2007 Red anitas , Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong
  • 2008 Red Seed , DF2 Gallery, Los Angeles
  • 2008 sur-FACE: in transit Tang Contemporary Art , Bangkok
  • 2009 Back to Beijing , Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong
  • 2010 Prelude to Water Melody - Moon in Glass , Today Art Museum
  • 2011 Prelude to Water Melody - Moon in Glass , Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing

Publications

  • Ling Jian: Private Journey , Hong Kong 2000
  • Jeremy Wingfield (ed.): Sublime - New Works by Ling Jian , Beijing 2003, Vlg. Courtyard Gallery
  • Willy van den Bussche: Beaufort , Gent 2006, Vlg. Borgerhoff & Lamberigts
  • Nicole Schoeni (among others): Red Vanitas , Hong Kong 2007, Vlg. Schoeni Art Gallery
  • Volker Diehl (Ed.): The last idealism , Berlin 2007, Vlg. Volker Diehl Gallery
  • Ling Jian: SurFace in transit , Beijing 2008
  • Ling Jian: Red Seed , Los Angeles 2008, Vlg. DF2 Gallery
  • Ling Jian: Crouching paper , Hong Kong 2009
  • Ling Jian: Back to Beijing , Hong Kong 2009
  • Ling Jian: Moon in Glass , Vlg.Timezone 8 Ltd, Hong Kong 2011, ISBN 9789881890764
  • Mark Gisbourne: Ling Jian , Vlg. For modern art, Nuremberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-86984-071-0

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Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Ling is the family name here, Jian is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Ling, Jian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Weifang , Shandong Province , China