WANG YIGANG
St. Giuseppe Saragat, 4D ground floor 26900 Lodi IT T. +39 (0) 0371 84 13 19 M.+39 (0) 339 876 4935 M +39 (0) 392 999 0797 info@galleriaartemartinelli.com www.galleriaartemartinelli.com
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Presentation of Galleria d'arte Martinelli
Wang Yigang
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of Marco Martini
12-14 di Viola Cari
Memory cuttings
F 16-18
of Viola Carugati
Works Historical
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Recents
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Work on paper
Biography
Solo & collective
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145-151
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The Martinelli art Gallery after collaborating with Absolute art Lugano decides to acquire the collection and to continue the promotion of the artist around the world. In June 2018 it signed an exclusive contract with the artist and became the activity of the official archive for him. The Chinese artist with an Artistic evolution has been pursued for over 30 years, has undertaken a work process that took him today to express his tecnique through a chromatic abstraction with an effect amazing. Absolute Art opens its exhibition space in 2015, after a long experience in the international art trade, with the intent to promote modern and contemporary art at the center of Europe. Lugano infact, not only geographically is located in a central position with respect to Europe, but above all we could define it as the beating heart of the culture and economy of the Old Continent. Immediately Absolute Art would not be representative of a single current or identify a new trend, but it has always focused on the quality of the works proposed, believing in art and in the artist as a mystic and visionary craftsman who produces not a good material, but the reproduction of emotions of all of us. From the first show, in which he staged works of the second Italian war, including Fontana, Castellani, Bonalumi, Chip etc. in solo exhibitions by emerging artists already on the international market.
Galleria Arte Martinelli
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Wang Yigang
Wang tells his story through painting. A story made of deep wounds and aerial ecstasies. This story remains impressed in the matter of the painting, a sensitive material, mobile, malleable, soaked in the echo of the vibratory hand of the artist. A material at times dense, at other times rarefied, crossing different climes, combining clear surfaces and utter, dark depths. It is a special story, winding its way among alternating vicissitudes, inaccessible passages, areas of shade and moments of light. Light plays a key role in this story: it combines with the material, without ever remaining infected by it, it accompanies the form and assumes it, but it preserves nothing of it. With the changing light and its incidence the material is modified. This alternation of different states of aggregation, different chromatic intensities, different luminous phases, this changing of atmospheres, this continuous and irreversible metamorphosis of the material is the story that the painting of Wang tells. The material of painting is colour, the chromatic paste, and while painting is no longer an objective representation, colour is no longer a medium, a tool, but it qualifies as an autonomous reality. It is a reality that the artist can practise and with which he or she can identify. Among all materials, painting is most suited to manipulation, what in power is readier to take on the impression of sensitivity, the more similar to the soul of philosophy, the wax tablet that in a state of quietness waits for the marks that memory may want to impress on it. It transmits the traces of the artist's deep compulsions live. Pictorial material is sensitive, it holds something of the feelings, but also of the passions that lay there. And a material that has a life, ready to welcome echoes and memories. Matter is an absolute presence, absolute present and the present is no other than a future that becomes past, "a past that was never present" (Gilles Deleuze).
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Pictorial matter is an analogy with the flowing of life, with the memory of existence. In the matter of painting there are all the materials of the world and nevertheless it is other, separate material, almost flew over the heaviness of reality, to touch light and ethereal worlds, almost dreamlike. The work of Wang Yigang fits into a more general trend, to present the material of painting with its autonomous value, without forcing it to mime other materials. An interest for painting grew in Wang Yigang out of his curiosity for materials and his drive to experiment with their most hidden secrets. For Wang, painting is live material, to know, study, love and practise. It is his long association with materials to drive him toward painting, a difficult and solitary path. Wang's painting is polymaterial, made of heterogeneous materials, stratifications. In his paintings the spatial perspective has turned into a perspective of colour. The colour is intense and is the main element of this painting. The predominance of colour is a sign of painting that is born out of emotion, an operation that resolves the phase of ideation in that of execution. It is the way of doing that Wang wants to travel, with the difficult meetingclash with matter, hand-to-hand with the painting. His painting is based on the gesture, a fast gesture, mutable, varied, that is born from a deep impulse, but above all it accompanies the materials and adjusts to them. It is a fury that strikes only the field of painting and is born out of contact with the material. Wang's works are framed abstract art and the latter incorporates in more general temptation of our century, the aspiration to make the invisible visible. Giving the invisible body is really the task of painting. In Wang matter is presented for its intrinsic value, even if it seems to establish a vague and slight analogy with another plan, even if it seems to hint at a spiritual dimension that the other hand is always implied in the abstract research.
Marco Martini Lugano, 12 aprile 2017
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Wang Yigang
Wang racconta la sua storia tramite la pittura. Una storia fatta di sperimentazioni, di estasi e di gioie conquistate con la forza che possiede solo colui capace di rialzarsi dopo le cadute. Questa storia resta impressa nella materia della pittura, una materia sensibile, mobile, malleabile, intrisa dall'eco della vibratile mano dell'artista. Una materia ora densa, ora rarefatta, che attraversa climi differenti, che coniuga terse superfici e abissali, oscure profondità. È una storia particolare, che si snoda tra alterne vicende, impervi passaggi, zone d'ombra e momenti di luce. La luce in questa storia ha un ruolo da protagonista: si unisce alla materia, senza mai rimanerne contagiata, accompagna la forma e la assume, ma non ne conserva nulla. Con il mutare della luce e della sua incidenza la materia stessa si modifica. Questo avvicendamento di differenti stati di aggregazione, di differenti intensità cromatiche, di differenti fasi luminose, questo mutare di atmosfere, questa metamorfosi continua e irreversibile della materia è la storia che la pittura di Wang racconta. La materia della sua pittura è il colore, la pasta cromatica, e se la pittura non è più rappresentazione oggettiva, il colore non è più un mezzo, uno strumento, ma si qualifica come una realtà autonoma. È una realtà che Wang può praticare e nella quale può identificarsi. Tra tutte le materie, la pittura è la più disposta alla manipolazione, quella che in potenza è più pronta ad assumere le impronte della sensibilità, la più simile all'anima della filosofia, la tavoletta di cera che in stato di quiete attende i segni che la memoria vorrà imprimerle. Trasmette in diretta le tracce delle pulsioni profonde dell'artista. La materia pittorica è impressionabile, trattiene qualcosa delle sensazioni, ma anche delle passioni che vi si posano. È una materia che ha una vita, pronta ad accogliere echi e memorie. La materia è presenza assoluta, presente assoluto e il presente non è altro che un futuro che diventa passato, "un passato che non fu mai presente" come sostenne il nostro Gilles Deleuze.
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La materia pittorica è in analogia con il fluire della vita, con la memoria dell'esistenza. Nella materia della pittura ci sono tutte le materie del mondo e tuttavia si tratta di materia altra, separata, quasi volasse sopra la pesantezza della realtà, per toccare mondi leggeri ed eterei, quasi onirici. L'opera di Wang Yigang si inserisce in una tendenza più generale, quella di presentare la materia della pittura nel suo valore autonomo, senza costringerla a mimare altri materiali. La pittura di Wang è polimaterica, fatta di materiali eterogenei, di stratificazioni. Nelle sue opere la prospettiva spaziale si è trasformata in prospettiva di colore. Il colore è intenso ed è l'elemento principale del suo mondo. Il prevalere del colore è indice di una pittura che nasce dall'emozione, di una operazione che risolve la fase dell'ideazione in quella dell'esecuzione. È la via del fare quella che Wang vuole percorrere, con il difficile incontro-scontro con la materia, il corpo a corpo con la pittura. La sua pittura è basata sul gesto, un gesto veloce, mutevole, vario, che nasce da un impulso profondo, ma soprattutto accompagna i materiali e si adegua ad essi. È un furore che investe soltanto il campo della pittura e nasce al contatto con la materia. Le opere di Wang si inquadrano nell'arte astratta e quest'ultima si ingloba nella più generale tentazione del nostro secolo, l'aspirazione a rendere visibile l'invisibile. Dare corpo all'invisibile è proprio il compito della pittura. In Wang la materia è presentata per il suo valore intrinseco, anche se sembra istituire una vaga e leggera analogia con un altro piano, anche se sembra alludere a una dimensione spirituale che d'altra parte è sempre sottesa alla ricerca astratta.
Marco Martini Lugano, 12 aprile 2017
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Memory cuttings
Each frame is experience. Each canvas, every brushstroke becomes a fragment that adds to an entire life. It is as if a part of the path could be reconstructed through the various details of a work of art. Small clippings of crystallized moments and kept in a perennial memory. Framework after painting, experience after experience, everything sums up to shape what can be called existence. From a window like an open window from which to look out to see and relive that exact moment, as a picture, as a memory, as a filter and a passage that allows you to return to that moment, that day, to those feelings lived. Here lies and is defined as the aesthetics of Wang Yigang, in that subtle interstice where imperceptible impressions are hidden, where one tries to give space also to the most delicate and impalpable traces. To try to cross it Yigang chooses painting, a material that can take any form, to become anything, the most ductile. Matter that, in power, can aspire to infinite possibilities by shaping up to the memory of the artist and his emotions. It's the story of a life. And sometimes it happens that the memories, the feelings are not so defined, become blurred, slowly. They can not capture completely because they are confusing. They emerge one at a time and stratify, to reconstruct all the facets of a situation, positioning next to each other for overlapping, just like Yigang's painting, colored magma sometimes stretched and sometimes creaked. The light that strikes the color blends in a single faceted reality, leaving in particular shades that are buried in memory and can not be distinguished but illuminated by others, the clearest.
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Sometimes a detail is clearer, others appear far away, and it seems more and more difficult to decode it, to perceive it fully. Do not force painting into recognizable structures means making it live by itself, not putting it in the service of a form to fill or describe but make it exist for itself. This is what makes abstraction, overtakes reality, surpasses the familiar to tell something that goes beyond, to a further. Deconstructs reality to create a new, less profitable but perhaps deeper one. An unconscious reality that investigates the psyche and falls into the depths of memory to try to bring the past into play by approaching it. Then here are the windows that open, which allow us and invite us to observe new worlds. Pictorial worlds, composed of moments and impressions. Slight vibrations complicated to grab during the flow of life, but trapped on a canvas that keeps its memory and intensity, giving us the chance to relive it infinite times.
Viola Carugati Milano, 24 aprile 2017
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Ritagli di memoria
Ogni quadro è esperienza. Ogni tela, ogni pennellata diventa un frammento che si aggiunge a un'intera vita. È come se attraverso i vari dettagli di un'opera d'arte si potesse ricostruire una parte del percorso. Piccoli ritagli di istanti cristallizzati e trattenuti in una memoria perenne. Quadro dopo quadro, esperienza dopo esperienza, tutto si somma per dare forma a ciò che può essere chiamata esistenza. Da quadro come finestra aperta da cui affacciarsi per vedere e rivivere quel preciso istante, a quadro come ricordo, come filtro e passaggio che permette di ritornare a quel momento, a quel giorno, a quelle sensazioni vissute. Qui si colloca e si definisce l'estetica di Wang Yigang, in quel sottile interstizio in cui si nascondono impressioni impercettibili, dove si cerca di dare spazio anche alle tracce più delicate e impalpabili. Per provare ad attraversarlo Yigang sceglie la pittura, materia in grado di assumere qualsiasi forma, di trasformarsi in qualsiasi cosa, la più duttile. Materia che, in potenza, può aspirare a infinite possibilità
plasmandosi fino a raggiungere la
memoria dell'artista e le sue emozioni. È il racconto di una vita. E succede a volte che i ricordi, le sensazioni non siano per forza così definite, affiorino sfocate, lentamente. Non si riescono a catturare completamente perché si mostrano confuse. Emergono una alla volta e si stratificano, per ricostruire tutte le sfaccettature di una situazione, posizionandosi una accanto all'altra per sovrapposizioni, proprio come la pittura di Yigang, magma colorato a volte steso e a volte rappreso. La luce, che colpisce il colore, si fonde in un'unica realtà sfaccettata, lasciando in ombra particolari che risultano sepolti nella memoria e non si possono distinguere ma illuminandone altri, i più limpidi. A volte un dettaglio affiora più nitido, altre ci appare molto lontano, e ci sembra sempre più difficile decodificarlo, percepirne appieno il senso.
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Non costringere la pittura in strutture riconoscibili significa farla vivere di per sé, non porla al servizio di una forma da riempire o descrivere ma farla esistere per se stessa. È questo che fa l'astrattismo, scavalca il reale, supera il conoscibile per raccontare qualcosa che va al di là, verso un oltre. Decostruisce la realtà per crearne una nuova, meno esperibile ma forse più profonda. Una realtà inconscia che indaga la psiche e si cala negli anfratti della memoria per cercare di far venire a galla il passato accostandolo al presente. Allora ecco che iniziano ad aprirsi quelle finestre, che ci permettono e ci invitano a osservare mondi nuovi. Mondi pittorici, composti da istanti e impressioni. Lievi vibrazioni complicate da afferrare durante lo scorrere della vita, ma intrappolate su una tela che ne conserva il ricordo e l’intensità, offrendoci la possibilità di riviverle infinite volte.
Viola Carugati Milano, 24 aprile 2017
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WORKS OPERE
Historical Storiche
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Ceppi 1984 oil on canvas olio su tela 35.43 by 37.79 in; 90x96 cm
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Lying woman 1984 mixed media tecnica mista 15.35 by 21.25 in; 39x54 cm
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Woman on chair 1984 oil on canvas olio su tela 44.88 by 39 in; 114x99 cm
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Ice's dream 1985 oil on canvas olio su tela 35.43 by 47.24 in; 90x120 cm
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Two figures 1987 oil on canvas olio su tela 35.43 by 35.43 in; 90x90 cm
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Abstract n.20 1990 oil on canvas olio su tela 28.74 by 24 in; 73x61 cm
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Abstract N 21 1990 oil on canvas olio su tela 28.74 by 24 in; 73x61 cm
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Abstract N 22 1990 oil on canvas olio su tela 28.74 by 24 in; 73x61 cm
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Abstract N19 1991 oil on canvas olio su tela 47.24 by 32.67 in; 120x83 cm
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Summer cool 1995 oil on canvas olio su tela 45.66 by 35.43in; 116x90 cm
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Street's light 1995 oil on canvas olio su tela 45.66 by 35.43in; 116x90 cm
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Untitled 1995 oil on canvas olio su tela 45.66 by 35.43 in; 116x90 cm
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Sèrie Ocre N45 2010 oil on canvas olio su tela 43.30 by 35.43 in; 110x90 cm
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Paysage Révisé 2010 oil on canvas olio su tela 78.74 by 51.18 in; 200x130 cm
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Abstract N5 2010 oil on canvas olio su tela 70.86 by 47.24 in; 180x120 cm
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Coloration 2010 oilon canvas olio su tela 102.36 by 86.61 in; 260x220 cm
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Recents Recenti
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Landscape Y17 2012 oil on canvas olio su tela 85.03 by 124.40 in; 216x316 cm
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Landscape Y18 2012 oil on canvas olio su tela 65.35 by 53.93 in; 166x137 cm
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Landscape Y25 2012 oil on canvas olio su tela 66.93 by 59.05 in; 170x150 cm
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Landscape Y26 2012 oil on canvas olio su tela 66.93 by 59.05 in; 170x150 cm
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Landscape Y27 2012 oil on canvas olio su tela 66.93 by 59.05 in; 170x150 cm
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Landscape Y30 2013 oil on canvas olio su tela 66.93 by 59.05 in; 170x150 cm
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Landscape N21 2014 oil on canvas olio su tela 61.81 by 46.45 in; 157x118 cm
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Landscape N22 2014 oil on canvas olio su tela 61.81 by 46.45 in; 157x118 cm
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Abstract H14 2014 oil on canvas olio su tela 78.74 by 157.48 in; 200x400 cm
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Landscape Y22 2014 oil on canvas olio su tela 50 by 34.25 in; 127x87 cm
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Abstract N1 2014 oil on canvas olio su tela 61.02 by 49.21in; 155x125 cm
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Abstract N2 2014 oil on canvas olio su tela 72.83 by 49.21 in; 185x125 cm
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Landscape N 59 2014 oil on canvas olio su tela 72.83 by 78.74 in; 185x200 cm
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Abstract N3 2014 oil on canvas olio su tela 61.02 by 49.21in; 155x125 cm
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Abstract N8 2014 oil on canvas olio su tela 62.20 by 11.02 in; 158x128 cm
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Abstract H9 2014 oil on canvas olio su tela 64.96 by 94.48 in; 165x245 cm
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Abstract N9 2015 oil on canvas olio su tela 72.83 by 66.93 in; 185x170 cm
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Abstract N10 2015 oil on canvas olio su tela 72.83 by 66.93 in; 185x170 cm
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Abstract N11 2015 oil on canvas olio su tela 37.40 by 65.35 in; 95x166 cm
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Abstract H17 2015 oil on canvas olio su tela 80.70 by 80.70 in; 205x205 cm
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Abstract H101 2015 oil on canvas olio su tela 51.18 by 43.30 in; 130x110 cm
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Abstract Z15 2015 oil on canvas olio su tela 78.74 by 61 in; 200x155 cm
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Abstract H4 2015 oil on canvas olio su tela 64.96 by 96.46 in; 165x245 cm
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Abstract H6 2015 oil on canvas olio su tela 64.96 by 94.48 in; 165x245 cm
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Abstract H8 2015 oil on canvas olio su tela 64.96 by 94.48 in; 165x245 cm
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Abstract R18 2016 oil on canvas olio su tela 39.37 by 31.49 in; 100x80 cm
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Abstract R21 2016 oil on canvas olio su tela 66.92 by 47.24 in; 170x120 cm
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Abstract R22 2016 oil on canvas olio su tela 59 by 51.18 in; 150x130 cm
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Abstract R23 2016 oil on canvas olio su tela 31.49 by 39.37 in; 80x100 cm
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Abstract R24 2016 oil on canvas olio su tela 39.37 by 31.49 in; 100x80 cm
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Abstract R25 2016 oil on canvas olio su tela 39.37 by 31.49 in; 100x80 cm
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Abstract R26 2016 oil on canvas olio su tela 31.49 by 23.62 in; 80x60 cm
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Abstract R27 2016 oil on canvas olio su tela 31.49 by 23.62 in; 80x60 cm
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Abstract R29 2016 oil on canvas olio su tela 39.37 by 31.49 in; 100x80 cm
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Abstract H1 2016 oil on canvas olio su tela 74.80 by 64.96 in; 190x165 cm
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Abstract H3 2016 oil on canvas olio su tela 78.74 by 59 in; 200x150 cm
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Abstract H5 2016 oil on canvas olio su tela 72.44 by 66.53 in; 184x169 cm
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Abstract H15 2016 oil on canvas olio su tela 45.28 by 37.40 in; 115x95 cm
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Abstract H16 2016 oil on canvas olio su tela 45.28 by 37.40 in; 115x95 cm
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Abstract H19 2016 oil on canvas olio su tela 45.28 by 37.40 in; 115x95 cm
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Abstract H21 2016 oil on canvas olio su tela 43.30 by 35.43 in; 110x90 cm
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Abstract H23 2016 oil on canvas olio su tela 66.92 by 39.37 in; 170x100 cm
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Abstract S9 2016 oil on canvas olio su tela 59.05 by 78.74 in; 150x200 cm
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Abstract S11 2016 oil on canvas olio su tela 39.37 by 59 in; 100x150 cm
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Abstract S12 2016 oil on canvas olio su tela 39.37 by 59 in; 100x150 cm
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Abstract S13 2016 oil on canvas olio su tela 59 by 47.24 in; 150x120 cm
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Abstract S14 2016 oil on canvas olio su tela 47.24 by 31.5 in; 120x80 cm
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Abstract S15 2016 oil on canvas olio su tela 47.24 by 31.5 in; 120x80 cm
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Abstract S16 2016 oil on canvas olio su tela 47.24 by 31.5 in; 120x80 cm
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Abstract S17 2016 oil on canvas olio su tela 39.37 by 39.37 in; 100x100 cm
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Abstract S24 2016 oil on canvas olio su tela 31.5 by 23.62 in; 80x60 cm
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Abstract S27 2016 oil on canvas olio su tela 31.5 by 23.62 in; 80x60 cm
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Abstract S28 2016 oil on canvas olio su tela 39.37 by 39.37 in; 100x100 cm
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Abstract S30 2016 oil on canvas olio su tela 39.37 by 39.37 in; 100x100 cm
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Abstract S31 2016 oil on canvas olio su tela 39.37 by 39.37 in; 100x100 cm
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Abstract S32 2016 oil on canvas olio su tela 59 by 47.24 in; 150x120 cm
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Abstract S33 2016 oil on canvas olio su tela 39.37 by 39.37 in; 100x100 cm
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Abstract S35 2016 oil on canvas olio su tela 59 by 47.24 in; 150x120 cm
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Abstract S36 2016 oil on canvas olio su tela 31.5 by 23.62 in; 80x60 cm
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Abstract P2 2017 oil on canvas olio su tela 51.18 by 43.30 in; 130x110 cm
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Abstract P3 2017 oil on canvas olio su tela 36.61 by 29.13 in; 93x74 cm
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Abstract T1 2018 oil on canvas olio su tela 31.5 by 47.24 in; 80x120 cm
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Abstract T2 2018 oil on canvas olio su tela 31.5 by 47.24 in; 80x120 cm
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Abstract T3 2018 oil on canvas olio su tela 39.37 by 59.05 in; 100x150 cm
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Abstract T4 2018 oil on canvas olio su tela 39.37 by 59.05 in; 100x150 cm
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Abstract T5 2018 oil on canvas olio su tela 39.37 by 59.05 in; 100x150 cm
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Abstract T6 2018 oil on canvas olio su tela 39.37 by 47.24 in; 100x120 cm
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Abstract T7 2018 oil on canvas olio su tela 39.37 by 47.24 in; 100x120 cm
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Abstract T8 2018 oil on canvas olio su tela 39.37 by 47.24 in; 100x120 cm
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Abstract T9 2018 oil on canvas olio su tela 47.24 by 59.05 in; 120x150 cm
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Abstract T10 2018 oil on canvas olio su tela 47.24 by 59.05 in; 120x150 cm
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Abstract T11 2018 oil on canvas olio su tela 51.18 by 62.99 in; 130x160 cm
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Abstract T12 2018 oil on canvas olio su tela 55.12 by 62.99 in; 140x160 cm
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Works on paper Lavori su carta
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A5, 2016, oil on paper
A6, 2016, oil on paper
A7, 2016, oil on paper
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A8, 2016, oil on paper
A9, 2016, oil on paper
A10, 2016, oil on paper
A11, 2016, oil on paper
A12, 2016, oil on paper
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A13, 2016, oil on paper
A14, 2016, oil on paper
A15, 2016, oil on paper
A16, 2016, oil on paper
A17, 2016, oil on paper
A18, 2016, oil on paper
A20, 2016, oil on paper
A19, 2016, oil on paper 137
A22, 2016, oil on paper
A21, 2016, oil on paper
A23, 2016, oil on paper
A24, 2016, oil on paper 138
A25, 2016, oil on paper
A26, 2016, oil on paper
A28, 2016, oil on paper
A19, 2016, oil on paper 139
A29, 2016, oil on paper
A30, 2016, oil on paper
A31, 2016, oil on paper
A32, 2016, oil on paper 140
A33, 2016, oil on paper
A34, 2016, oil on paper
A35, 2016, oil on paper
A36, 2016, oil on paper 141
A37, 2016, oil on paper
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A38, 2016, oil on paper
BIOGRAPHY BIOGRAFIA
BIOGRAPHY BIOGRAFIA Born in 1961 in Qiqihar, Heilongjiang Province. He began his career in the early 1980s, at the beginning of his studies of art he was influenced by cubism and futurism. He was the winner of the national youth art prize in the national youth art exhibition in 1985. Assigned to the Shenyang Normal Institute in 1986 following the acquisition of a certificate in oil painting from the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts, has worked as specially-appointed researcher of Chinese National Academy of Art. During his 25 years career, the artist Wang Yiang has shown pluralism in style from figurative to abstract expressionism and pop art. The artist's works has been exhibited throughout the world, in China, in Beijing, Shenyang and Shanghai, but also in Japan, Singapore, the Russian federation and the United States. He has also exhibited his works in europe, particularly in Spain and Germany. Currently the curator of Luxun Art Gallery professor.
Nato nel 1961 a Qiqihar, nella provincia di Heilongjiang. Ha iniziato la sua carriera nei primi anni '80, all'inizio dei suoi studi sull'arte è stato influenzato dal cubismo e dal futurismo. Ăˆ stato il vincitore del premio nazionale per l'arte giovanile alla mostra nazionale sull'arte giovanile nel 1985. Assegnato allo Shenyang Normal Institute nel 1986 a seguito dell'acquisizione di un certificato di pittura ad olio della Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts, ha lavorato come ricercatore appositamente nominato dell'Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Cinese. Durante i suoi 25 anni di carriera, l'artista Wang Yiang ha mostrato il pluralismo nello stile dall'espressionismo figurativo a quello astratto e la pop art. Le opere dell'artista sono state esposte in tutto il mondo, in Cina, a Pechino, Shenyang e Shanghai, ma anche in Giappone, Singapore, Federazione Russa e Stati Uniti. Ha anche esposto le sue opere in Europa, in particolare in Spagna e Germania. Attualmente curatore del professore della Luxun Art Gallery.
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SOLO 2019 “Wang Yigang”, Il Rivellino, Locarno, CH 2018 “Recent works”, Mark Borghi Fine Art, New York, NY, USA 2017 “Through color”, Brun Fine Art, London, UK 2017 “Through color”, Absolute Art, Lugano, Switzerland 2017 "Disinterested", Villa friede Art Museum, Bonn, Germany 2017 "Color bloom", Sai Gallery, Seoul, Korea 2016 "The transformation of the flow," Shannon Gallery, Paris, France 2016 "No", Asia Art Center in Paris, France 2016 "Anti Abstract: writing process, the body has become a new way", Art Museum Xi'an 2013 "Is not about distance," Laguna Art Museum Shenyang Long 2012 "Between color and emotion", Soka Art Center, Beijing, China 2010 "From West to East", Huashan Creative Cultural Park, Chinese Taipei "Wang Yi Gang retrospective abstract" art, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China 2008 "This is not Chinese landscape", Singapore "From Dusk to this doctrine is not Chinese landscape," Fahrenheit Gallery, Shanghai, China 2007 "We are all responsible", China, Shanghai "Made in America", Xin Dong Cheng Art Space, Beijing, China "Offhand," University of Maryland Art Museum, United States 2004 "Chinese landscape", double vision galleries, United States, California 2003 "Under the red flag," Double Vision Gallery, United States, California 1996 "Only Art Wang Yigang", Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China 1994 "Only Art Wang Yigang", Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China 1992 "In the early nineties - Wang Yigang Exhibition", China Central Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing, China group exhibition
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COLLECTIVE 2016 "Painting, contemporary art game Dilemma" White Box Art Museum, Beijing 2016 "Contemporary Chinese Painting on paper" the gallery promenade, London 2016 "2016 China abstract", Museum of Shanghai Mingyuan Art, Shanghai 2016 "Running non-image", positive outlook Art Museum, Beijing 2016 "Was Yu Yin, the poetic Chinese contemporary art" orientation Art Gallery Shenzhen 2016 "Shows the study of abstract art", Today Art Museum, Beijing, China 2015 "Flashbacks Art History: Another clue contemporary Chinese art" Eriez Art Museum, Beijing, China "Abstract and artistic conception" Fun Art Museum, Beijing, China "MAK" contemporary Chinese art international exhibition, China, Beijing "After Exhibition Academic research", Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, China, Guangdong 2014 "Social landscape" - Contemporary Art "narrative landscape", China, Chengdu. 2014 "1960" space spring, China, Beijing 2014 "Re-encoding: rhetoric and narrative reconstruction" Grass Gallery, Beijing, China 2013 "Sound did not present" shows parallel, Venice, Italy 2012 Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Art, Paris, France "Guangzhou Triennial - Third Nature China recycling", Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China "Invisible Shape - Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition", Kaershute Art Center, Germany
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"In 2012 Chinese Contemporary Painting Biennial", China Art Museum, Beijing, China "Paradigm Shift significance of contemporary art," Blue Roof Art Museum, Chengdu, China 2011 "Dominate - years Beijing Soca", Soka Art Center, Beijing, China "Virtual Northeast - outline Northeast Contemporary Art", Soka Art Center, Beijing, China 2010 "Reconstruction - TOP Chinese Abstract Art Exhibition", Art Museum, Zhejiang, China, Zhejiang “Reshaping History - - 2000 - 2009 New Chinese Art ", Beijing International Exhibition Center, Beijing, China "China Study of Contemporary Art Exhibition -2010" character Suzhou Museum of Contemporary Art, China, Suzhou 2009 "Collision - in the case of Chinese contemporary art testing," China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China "Mixed MIX" France Contemporary Art Exhibition, China, Shenyang 2008 "Abstraction and Modernity" Tokuyama Art Space, Beijing, China "Illegal", Long March Space, Beijing, China 2007 "Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition", Seoul, South Korea "Coexistence" China and South Korea exchange Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea "After the Chinese pioneer exhibition New Art", Khan TZ, China, Hong Kong Washington International Art Fair, Washington, United States Spanish International Art Fair, Spain North China Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Gallery in Gottingen, Germany Chinese contemporary art exhibition "social art", Cove National Gallery
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2006 "Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition", China Millennium Monument, Beijing, China Chinese abstract art text "third" space abstract painting exhibition Invitation, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China German Contemporary Art Forum and German Contemporary Art Exhibition, China, Beijing From “Extreme Territory”to “The Iron East”, the Artist of the Northeast Guangdong Museum of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China A Point in Time, Hubei, Wuhan, China 2004 International Art Biennale,California,USA 2003 A Point in Time, Changsha, China 2001 Academic and Non-Academic, Yibo Gallery, Shanghai, China 2000 Chinese Oil Painting in the 20th Century, Beijing, China The Third National Exhibition of Young Artist, Beijing, China 1999 CH146-contemporary Chinese Art, Shanghai, China Fourteenth Asian Art Fair, Fukuoka, Japan Japan-Asian Art Festival, Toyama, Japan 1997 In Celebration of the Return of Hong Kong to the Mainland, Shanghai, China 1996 International Week of Visual Art, Hamburg, Germany 1995 Contemporary Chinese Oil Painting Invitational, Nanjing, China The Spirit of New Chinese Art, New York, Los Angeles, USA 1994 Second Exhibition of the Chinese Oil Painting Association, National Art Museum of China, Beijing ,China 1993 Chinese Oil Painting Biennale, Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing, China 1991 National Exhibition for the 77th Anniversary of the Foundation of the People’s Republic of China, Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing, China 1988 First Exhibition of Chinese Oil Painting, Beijing museum of History, Beijing, China
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1985 Chinese Youth on the Marcb-National Exhibition of Young Chinese Artist, Beijing, China
AWARDS
1985 Award of Encouragement National Junior Art Exhibition 1991 Bronze in the Art Exhibition in Honor of the 70th Anniversary of CPC 1992 Award of Nomination of the Guangzhou Biennial 1993 Academic Award of China Oil Painting Biennial 2007 Award of Outstand Contributions in Contemporary Art by Asian College of USA
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MOSTRE PERSONALI 2019 “Wang Yigang”, Il Rivellino, Locarno, CH 2018 “Opere recenti”, Mark Borghi Fine Art, New York, NY, USA 2017 "Disinteressato", villa friede Art Museum, Bonn, Germania 2017 "Fioritura di colore", Galleria Sai, Seoul, Corea 2016 "La trasformazione del flusso", Shannon Gallery, Parigi, Francia 2016 "No", l'Asia Art Center a Parigi, Francia 2016 "Anti Abstract: processo di scrittura, il corpo è diventato un modo nuovo", Museo d'Arte Xi'an 2013 "Non si tratta di distanza," Laguna Art Museum Shenyang lungo 2012 "Tra colore ed emozione", Soka Art Center, Pechino, Cina 2010 "Da Ovest ad Est", Huashan creativo Cultural Park, Taipei cinese "Wang Yigang arte astratta retrospettiva", Today Art Museum, Pechino, Cina 2008 "Questo non è paesaggio cinese", Singapore "Dal tramonto a questa dottrina non è paesaggio cinese," Fahrenheit Gallery, Shanghai, Cina 2007 "Siamo tutti responsabili", Cina, Shanghai "Made in America", Xin Dong Cheng Art Space, Pechino, Cina "Lì per lì," Università del Maryland Art Museum, Stati Uniti 2004 "Paesaggio cinese", doppie gallerie di visione, Stati Uniti, California 2003 "Sotto la bandiera rossa," Double Vision Gallery, Stati Uniti, California Del 1996 "Solo d'Arte Wang Yigang", Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China 1994 "Solo d'Arte Wang Yigang", Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China 1992 "All'inizio degli anni Novanta - Wang Yigang Exhibition", China Central Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Pechino, Cina
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MOSTRE COLLETTIVE
2016 "La pittura, l'arte contemporanea gioco Dilemma" Museo White Box Art, Pechino 2016 "Pittura cinese contemporanea su carta" la galleria lungomare, Londra 2016 "2016 astratta Cina", Museo di Shanghai Mingyuan Art, Shanghai 2016 "In esecuzione non-immagine", outlook positivo Art Museum, Pechino 2016 "Era Yu Yin, l'arte contemporanea cinese poetica" orientamento Art Gallery di Shenzhen 2016 "lo studio mostra d'arte astratta", Today Art Museum, Pechino, Cina 2015 "Flashback Storia dell'arte: Un altro indizio arte contemporanea cinese" Eriez Art Museum, Pechino, Cina "Astratta e concezione artistica" Fun Art Museum, Pechino, Cina "MAK" Arte cinese contemporanea mostra internazionale, Cina, Pechino "Dopo Exhibition La ricerca accademica", Guangzhou Accademia di Belle Arti, Cina, Guangdong 2014 "Paesaggio sociale" - Arte Contemporanea "paesaggio narrativo", la Cina, Chengdu. 2014 "1960" spazio primavera, Cina, Pechino 2014 "Re-encoding: retorica e ricostruzione narrativa" Erba Gallery, Pechino, Cina 2013 "Il suono non era presente" mostra parallela, Venezia, Italia 2012 Mostra d'arte contemporanea cinese, Parigi, Francia "Guangzhou Triennale - Terza Natura riciclaggio Cina", Museo d'arte Guangdong, Guangzhou, Cina "Forma invisibile - Cinese Mostra d'Arte Contemporanea", Kaershute Art Center, Germania "Biennale pittura cinese", Cina Art Museum, Pechino, Cina
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"Shift significato paradigma di arte contemporanea," Tetto Museo Blu Art, Chengdu, Cina 2011 "Dominare - anni Pechino Soca", Soka Art Center, Pechino, Cina "Nordest virtuale - contorno Nordest Arte Contemporanea", Soka Art Center, Pechino, Cina 2010 "La ricostruzione - TOP cinese Abstract Art Exhibition", Museo d'Arte, Zhejiang, Cina, Zhejiang “Rimodellare Storia - - 2000 - 2009 New Art cinese ", Beijing International Exhibition Center, Pechino, Cina "China Study of Contemporary Art Exhibition -2010" carattere Suzhou Museo di Arte Contemporanea, la Cina, Suzhou 2009 "Collision - in caso di test di arte contemporanea cinese", la Cina Accademia Centrale di Belle Arti, Pechino, Cina "MIX misto" France Mostra d'Arte Contemporanea, la Cina, Shenyang 2008 "Astrazione e ModernitĂ " Tokuyama Art Space, Pechino, Cina "Illegale", spazio lungo marzo, Pechino, Cina 2007 "Esposizione cinese Arte Contemporanea", Seoul, Corea del Sud "Coesistenza" La Cina e la Corea del Sud scambio Mostra d'Arte Contemporanea, Museo di Arte Contemporanea, Seoul, Corea "Dopo pioniere cinese mostra New Art", Khan TZ, Cina, Hong Kong Washington Art Fair internazionale, Washington, Stati Uniti Spagnolo Internazionale Art Fair, Spagna Cina del Nord Esposizione d'Arte Contemporanea, Galleria a Gottinga, Germania Cinese mostra contemporanea "arte sociale", Cove National Gallery 2006 "Esposizione cinese Arte Contemporanea", China Millennium Monument, Pechino, Cina
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Testo cinese arte astratta "terzo spazio" astratto mostra di pittura Invito, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, Cina Art Forum tedesca contemporanea e tedesco Mostra d'Arte Contemporanea, Cina, Pechino Da "Polar" a "Zona Ovest" - la mostra d'arte contemporanea nord-est, Museo d'arte Guangdong, Guangzhou, Cina "Un punto nel tempo," la Cina, Wuhan 2004 "Biennale", gli Stati Uniti, California 2003 "Un punto nel tempo," la Cina, Changsha 2001 "College e non accademico" mostra di pittura elite cinese, Shanghai Yibo Gallery, Shanghai, Cina 2000 "Olio pittura cinese Retrospettiva del 20esimo secolo", Cina, Pechino "Terzo d'Arte Nazionale dei Giovani", Pechino, Cina Pechino, Cina "Shift significato paradigma di arte contemporanea," Tetto Museo Blu Art, Chengdu, Cina
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Premi 1985
"Art Exhibition National Youth", premio di incoraggiamento
1991
"Settantesimo anniversario della fondazione della Mostra Nazionale di belle arti", premio di bronzo
1992
"Guangzhou Biennale Cina", nomina
1993
"Riconoscimento accademico della Biennale cinese per la pittura a olio”
2007
“Asian American Cultural Institute of Contemporary Arts”, assegnato il premio Outstanding Contribution
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List of works / Elenco opere
Ceppi p.24
Two figures p.28
Lying woman p.25
N20 p.29
Street's light p.33 Summer cool p.34
N5 p.40
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Coloration p.42
Woman on chair p.26
N21 p.30
N22 pp.31
Untitled p.35
N45 p.38
Landscape Y17 p.44-45
Y18 p.46
Ice's dream p.27
N19 pp.32
Paysage 87 p.40
Y25 p.48
Y27 p.50
Y26 p.49
H14 p.54-55
N3 p.62
Y30 p.51
Y22 p.56
N8 p.63
N11 p.68
N1 p.58
H4 p.64
H17 p.70
N21 p.52
N2 p.59
N9 p.66
H101 p.71
N22 p.53
N59 p.60
N10 p.67
H101 p.72
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H4 p.73
R21 p.77
R18 p.76
R26 p.82
H15 p.90
160
H6 p.74
R22 p.78
R27 p.84
R29 p.85
H16 p.91
H8 p.75
R23 p.79
H1 p.86
H19 p.92
R24 p.80
H3 p.87
H21 p.93
R25 p.81
H5 p.88
H23 p.94
S9 p.95
S14 p.99
S15 p.100
S28 p.110
S33 p.114
S 11 p.96
S16 p.102
S12 p.97
S17 p.104
S30 p.111
S35 p.115
S24 p.108
S31 p.112
S36 p.116
S13 p.98
P2 p.117
S27 p.109
S32 p.113
P3 p.118
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T1 p.119
T2 p.120
T3 p.121
T4 p.122
T5 p.123
T6 p.124
T7 p.125
T8 p.126
T9 p.127
T10 p.128
S 11 p.129
S12 p.130
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