Yi Zheng Lin

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Yi Zheng Lin (* 1962 in Fuzhou Fujian ) is a Sino-German painter and sculptor.

Life

Yi Zheng Lin grew up in southeast China, across from the island of Taiwan . He lives and works in Fuzhou Fujian and Giessen . He spent his childhood in a traditional Chinese house with a yard and garden. After his parents moved to other parts of town, he stayed behind and was raised by his grandmother and an uncle. His grandmother made handicrafts such as B. lanterns made of rice paper and bamboo or hand-sewn and embroidered shoes made of fabric. In this way, Lin practiced manual dexterity. Another formative influence in his childhood was the nature around him. Since studying art in China was still unknown at that time, he first decided to study teaching. He later switched to civil service and studied law at the same time.

In 1991 he emigrated to Germany and began studying law in Giessen . While working at a trade fair in Frankfurt am Main , after the stand was dismantled, he was given paints and he began to paint. His work found recognition in his circle of friends and so he dared to present his work to the Giessener Kunstverein, which arranged its first exhibition in 1999 with the title “The Wind Doesn't Choose”. In the initial phase, his studio consisted of a chamber in the student dormitory. With increasing demand for his works of art, he decided to give up his law studies and devote himself exclusively to art. Lin has received grants from the Künstlerdorf Schöppingen Foundation and the Künstlerbahnhof Ebernburg e. V.

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As an autodidact, he developed his own formal language , influenced by traditional Chinese ink painting, but also by Informel and Action Painting . His painting is sometimes reminiscent of Chinese characters, but it is abstract and inspired by organic forms. He chooses traditional rice and tissue paper as materials for his paintings . He gives his paintings, which have no titles, with additional symbols such as a snake and a tiger, which stand for his horoscope. Rice paper was also the first raw material he used to form three-dimensional body objects. In his search for flexibly assemblable and transportable material, he came across industrial products. Pipes, cable ties, garbage bags etc. are his sculptural alphabet from which he designs his filigree, seemingly organic objects and installations. The components are freed from their original function and charged with new meaning in the arrangements. So mutated z. B. a tampon to a calyx. The titles he chooses for his three-dimensional works are often humorous metaphors. To find the term, he searches botanical books. Both his painting and his sculptural works are characterized by a linear basic structure, which he provides with selected, colored accents. In this way, the calligraphic influence becomes visible in his overall work.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2009 "Paarlauf", Kleinsassen Art Station , "03. Tease art Fair Cologne “, participation in art fair by Galerie Arthus in Cologne; “Zwischenwelten” in the Arthus Gallery in Zell a. H.; "4. Höhler Biennale Gera ”in Gera
  • 2008 “Art Fabric”, Galerie +, Wetzlar; "Kunstdirekt", 8th Art Fair Rhineland-Palatinate, Mainz; “New beginnings and metamorphosis”, Kunstverein Friedberg; “New beginnings and metamorphosis”, Upper Hessian Museum Giessen; “Metamorphoses”, Gallery FAC Prestel, Frankfurt am Main
  • Frankfurter Kunstblock, Frankfurt am Main; "3. Höhler Biennale Gera ”, Gera;

"Chinese and German Contemporary Art", Art Museum, Xiamen, China; “100 Years of Fujan University”, Fuzhou, China; "Pictures and Objects", Gallery FAC Prestel, Frankfurt am Main

  • 2006 “Kunstdirekt” 7th Art Fair Rhineland-Palatinate, Mainz;

"Kunst aktuell", Kunsthalle Gießen; “Ink painting from Fujian”, Art Gallery Gießen; “Lin-Flora”, Galerie Salon Brenner, Offenbach

  • 2005 "Artists from Fuzhou", BBK Gallery Mainz; “Schiller”, Giessen Art Gallery;
  • 2004 “In Motion”, Kunsthalle Gießen; "Kunstdirekt", 6th art fair Rhineland-Palatinate, Mainz;
  • 2003 “unbridled”, double exhibition Galerie Remmele and Galerie Seidenstrasse, Giessen; "Pictures and Objects", Bad Rappenau Culture House; "Dialog Art II", Giessen Art Gallery
  • 2002 “The Paraphrase”, Kulturhaus Spandau, Berlin; “Coincidence I / 2002”, European cultural center IGNIS, Cologne; "Dialog Art I", Upper Hessian Museum, Giessen
  • 2001 “Asian Painters” with Yoko Kawaga, Galerie Forum, Giessen; "Artistic World Tour", Gallery Picture Factory, Siegen
  • 2000 “The quintessence of the autumn wind”, municipal gallery Haus Seel, Siegen
  • 1999 “99 the wind doesn't choose!”, Town hall, Gießen congress hall

literature

  • Oberhessisches Museum Giessen, Friedberger Kunstverein, Galerie FAC Prestel (Ed.): Yi Zheng Lin. Ink painting. Objects and installations. Giessen, 2008.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Unpublished interview with Yi Zheng Lin by Birgit Enderle on May 19, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Yi Zheng Lin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese-German painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Fuzhou Fujianl