chinese artist – CANTON-SARDINE

Wei Zhang 張偉

17 Feb 2020 by Canton-sardine

Zhang Wei 張偉, born in Guangzhou China in 1964, he graduated from the High School of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 1984, then he has his BFA from the Oil Painting Department of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 1988. He has his MFA degreed from the oil painting department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2000, and became an associate professor of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 2002. Since 2019, he has been the vice president of the secondary school of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts.

Wei mainly practices oil painting and water color painting through his career, his is the one of representative contemporary painters of documentary-painting since 1990s in China. He documented ordinary people, such as students in his working school, friends, families, workers, peasantries, as well as ordinary landscape, still life etc. His painting express the nowness of the ear of our life, the present view of contemporary world .

His works have been collected by the Hong Kong Baptist University, the Hong Kong Museum of History, the Lausanne Olympic Museum, the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Museum, the Lingnan Painting School Memorial of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, the Guangdong Academy of Fine Arts, the Pearl River Museum, the Gu Yuan Museum, and the Jing Yuan Museum.

Relative article:

Back to the Road of Object — Zhang Wei’s View of Youth and Practice in Oil Painting | By Xiaoyan Yang | December 1, 2008

When We Were Young — Imagination of Youth in Zhang Wei’s Work | By Xiaoyan Yang | March 25, 2010

Official Website (Chinese)

https://zhangwei.artron.net/index

Our future is not just a dream | oil on canvas | 200cm × 180cm | 2003

Study hard, improve every day | oil on canvas | 200cm × 200cm | 2004

Moments In Love No.2 | oil on canvas | 130cm × 150cm | 2005

Record the youth No.28 | oil on canvas | 200cm × 170cm | 2009

Dreamy season| oil on canvas | 200cm × 340cm | 2010

Dreamy season (detail)| oil on canvas | 200cm × 340cm | 2010

In March | oil on canvas | 250cm × 450cm | 2012

In March (detail)| oil on canvas | 250cm × 450cm | 2012

We are together | oil on canvas | 250cm × 900cm | 2012

We are together (detail)| oil on canvas | 250cm × 900cm | 2012

The last lesson | oil on canvas | 200cm × 510cm | 2010

The last lesson (detail)| oil on canvas | 200cm × 510cm | 2010

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Zilong Guo 郭子龙

11 Feb 2020 by Canton-sardine

Guo Zilong 郭子龙 graduated from Tsinghua University in 2002 with a BFA degree in metal art design. Then he graduated from Beijing University of Technology with a MFA degree in digital art in 2013. Currently teaching at the Department of Arts and Crafts, School of Art and Design, Beijing University of Technology. He mainly teaches metal furnishings design, decorative sculpture, comprehensive material design, materials and technology, and metal decoration design. He has been engaged in artistic creations such as sculpture, painting and metal materials for years. His works have been collected by Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong collectors, the EU ambassador to China, and the Swiss ambassador to China.

Guo Zilong is an artist who is difficult to classify. His creative methods and works are not typical sculptures or installations, especially his recent series of graphic works, which have further blurred the boundaries of artistic forms. Guo Zilong embodies his thoughts on the concepts of “authenticity” and “nature” in a lot of complicated manual labor. His dedication to independent production and nearly strict requirements on the level of craftsmanship are also manifestations of his artistic concept.

Large Bonsai | Bronze and Stainless steel | 350cm height | 2015

Alocasia | Stainless steel and live plant | 340cm height | 2015

Bamboo forest | Stainless steel and live plant | L500cm×W500cm×H350cm | 2015

Bamboo forest （detail） | Stainless steel and live plant | L500cm×W500cm×H350cm | 2015

Bamboo forest （detail） | Stainless steel and live plant | L500cm×W500cm×H350cm | 2015

Investigation of thing- Bamboo | Stainless steel and bamboo | 150cm×150cm | 2014

Investigation of thing- Bamboo （detail） | Stainless steel and bamboo | 150cm×150cm | 2014

Investigation of thing NO.1 （opened form） | Bronze | 62x32x32cm | 2014-2015

Investigation of thing NO.1 （closed form） | Bronze | 62x32x32cm | 2014-2015

Investigation of thing NO.1 （detail） | Bronze | 62x32x32cm | 2014-2015

Identify NO.1 | Bronze and stainless steel | 42x28x48cm | 2014-2015

Identify NO.1 (side) | Bronze and stainless steel | 42x28x48cm | 2014-2015

Identify NO.2 | Bronze and stainless steel | 50x32x63cm | 2014-2015

Identify NO.2 (side) | Bronze and stainless steel | 50x32x63cm | 2014-2015

Identify NO.3 (front) | Bronze and stainless steel | 50x32x63cm | 2014-2015

Identify NO.3 (back) | Bronze and stainless steel | 50x32x63cm | 2014-2015

Invisible- Poem of farewell | Dry plant, invisible ink, wood frame| 50x50cm | 2015

Invisible- Poem of farewell （detail under UV light） | Dry plant, invisible ink, wood frame| 50x50cm | 2015

Invisible- Bamboo leaves | Dry plant, Gold leaves| 40x30cm | 2015

Invisible- Bamboo leaves （detail ） | Dry plant, Gold leaves| 40x30cm | 2015

Invisible- Bamboo leaves | Stainless steel | 120x120cm | 2015

Invisible- Song Ci-Ru Meng Ling | Ink, Mixed media on silk | 40x30cm | 2015

Invisible- Song Ci-Ru Meng Ling （detail） | Ink, Mixed media on silk | 40x30cm | 2015

Invisible- Wine song | Ink and invisible on paper | 40x40cm | 2015

Invisible- Wine song （detail under UV light） | Ink and invisible on paper | 40x40cm | 2015

Invisible- Farewell to friend | Ink and invisible on paper | 40x40cm | 2015

Invisible- Farewell to friend （detail under UV light） | Ink and invisible on paper | 40x40cm | 2015

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Gen Chen 陳根

27 Jan 202028 Jan 2020 by Canton-sardine

Gen Chen 陳根 was born in Liuyang, Hunan Province, China, Chen graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the China Academy of Art. Now, he lives and works in Liuyang. He practices oil painting with the studying of objects, emotions and poetry of invisible and mystery, in order to question the justice of realities where he lives. Connected with the traditional Chinese painting schema and symbolic objects in traditional Chinese paintings, he tries to express the contradiction between tradition things and the contemporary world, observation beyond the realistic and the unrealistic.