Shan fan

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Shan Fan (Chinese 单 凡, born February 4, 1959 in Hangzhou ) is a contemporary German-Chinese artist, acting founding president of the Brand University of Applied Sciences and main shareholder of DACHINA interchange Management GmbH.

Life

Shan Fan was born on February 4, 1959, the son of the Marxist philosopher Shan Miaogen in Hangzhou, China. He began his first painting lessons at the age of 13. In 1977 he began studying traditional Chinese ink painting under Zheng Dehan and Pan Yun at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zhejiang, China. However, Shan Fan was never enrolled in the college and instead attended Pan Yun's classes unofficially.

A chance acquaintance with the German businessman Siegfried Meyer and the resulting friendship brought him to Hamburg in 1984, where he began studying under KP Brehmer in 1985 at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste (HfbK) , which he graduated with a diploma in 1988.

In 1995 Shan Fan began his long-term career as a freelance lecturer at Design Factory International. In 1992 he received German citizenship. In 1998 he became the second managing partner of the Design Factory International GmbH founded by Gerrit Ahnen in 1992. Subsequently, he used this position to specifically build international partnerships with a focus on China. In 2011 he was appointed President of the German side of the International School of Communication Design of the Beijing Zhuhai Pedagogical University (BNUZ), where he was also appointed visiting professor in 2002. From 2004–2006 he served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Tsinghua University - DFI Art Directors Program in Beijing. In 2006 Shan Fan lectured initially as a visiting professor at the Chinese University of the Arts in Hangzhou, and from 2008 at the East China University in Shanghai.

With German and Chinese friends, he founded the Brand University of Applied Sciences in 2010 . It was the first state-recognized private university of applied sciences in Germany that focuses on the subject of "brands" in an interdisciplinary manner. With the establishment of the university, Shan Fan fulfilled another childhood dream. Shan Fan has been President of Brand University since it was founded, and in 2011 he was also appointed Professor of Intercultural Art. Since then, his main research area has been the transformation from tradition to modern to innovation in contemporary art.

Since arriving in Hamburg in 1984, Shan Fan has been commuting back and forth between the Hanseatic city and China approximately every 6 weeks. He draws inspiration for the university and the artistic work from the alternation / tension between cultures.

He has two sons from his marriage to Angela Shan (1995–2012). In 2013, Shan Fan married again, the Chinese painter Lu Xiuyuan. A daughter emerged from this marriage.

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Shan Fan started painting at the age of 13. He was taught by Master Ding Zhengxian in Zhejiang Province, which is known for its bamboo. His training focused on traditional black ink painting on rice paper. This remained so in 1976 when Chinese Cultural Revolutionaries insisted on the use of the color red. It got to the point that his father tore up the pictures Shan Fan had secretly painted in front of his eyes to protect him.

From his preoccupation with bamboo, Shan Fan developed a bamboo alphabet consisting of 200 variables that shows the different ways in which the individual grasses can be arranged. The term “alphabet” also illustrates the proximity of traditional Chinese writing to art.

Shan fans “paintings of the moment” are fast, expressive works, to which another copy is added daily, either as part of a morning relaxation program in the form of a “meditation on everyday spiritual presence and aesthetic enjoyment” or at the latest as the end of the day's work going to bed.

Overlapping with a brief figurative phase and experiments with installations and performances, Shan Fan began in 2008 to first transfer selected bamboo motifs onto large canvases, and then switched to extremely enlarged representations.

The Academy of Fine Arts Hamburg, to which Shan Fan has been a member since 2014, summarizes the artistic work of Shan Fans as follows:

"Whether in ink on rice paper, oil on canvas, overpainting a traditional classic or in the media installation and performance - Shan Fan reflects and transforms the abstraction potential that characterizes bamboo painting in his works."

From 1995 to 2007 (the year Hans Hoeppner died) Shan Fan was represented by the Hoeppner Gallery from Großhansdorf . Since 2010 he has been represented by Galerie Urs Meile, which Ai Weiwei also represents.

Prizes and awards

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Current exhibitions

Inky Bytes: Ink traces in the digital age, September 2, 2018 to January 13, 2019, joint exhibition as part of the Hamburg CHINA TIME in the Museum for Art and Commerce Hamburg

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Shan Fan | JAKOB BORNER. Retrieved June 28, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Brand Academy - University for Brands and Brand Communication . In: Brand Academy . ( brand-acad.de [accessed on June 28, 2018]).
  3. ↑ First private university of applied sciences in Germany for brand management approved. Retrieved June 28, 2018 .
  4. ↑ ba-human . In: Brand Academy . ( brand-acad.de [accessed on June 28, 2018]).
  5. ^ Hamburger Abendblatt - Hamburg: Shan Fan, bamboo painter between two worlds . ( Abendblatt.de [accessed on June 28, 2018]).
  6. ↑ a b Gunnar F. Gerlach / Matthias: Two knowledge are better than one . In: The daily newspaper: taz . September 10, 1997, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 23 ( taz.de [accessed June 28, 2018]).
  7. ↑ Maximilian Probst: Bamboo art in Oldenburg: painting against the definition . In: The daily newspaper: taz . March 19, 2009, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed June 28, 2018]).
  8. ↑ Maximilian Probst: Bamboo art in Oldenburg: painting against the definition . In: The daily newspaper: taz . March 19, 2009, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed June 28, 2018]).
  9. ↑ EP384_SDG229_V01 (1). Accessed June 28, 2018 .
  10. ^ Gallery Hoeppner | Artist | Shan, Fan. Retrieved June 28, 2018 .
  11. ^ Exhibition "The Portable Home of Shan Fan". Retrieved June 28, 2018 .
  12. ^ Medal for Art and Science. Retrieved August 15, 2018 .
  13. ↑ archimania.de: Members - Free Academy of Arts in Hamburg. Retrieved August 15, 2018 .
  14. ↑ . Gosign media, Hamburg, Germany: Inky bytes. Retrieved July 30, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Shan, fan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Chinese artist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th February 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Hangzhou