Qi Lan |
Qi Lan
1973 Born in Anyue County, Sichuan Province; 1996 Graduated from Southwest Normal University, Department of Chinese Traditional Painting in Academy of Fine Arts, with a Bachelor’s Degree in FineArts; 2001 Graduated from Nanjing University of the Arts, Department of Chinese Traditional Painting, with a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts; 2007 Began to study with Professor Wang Mengqi as a Ph.D. candidate in Fine Arts. From 2001 to 2018, He worked for Shanghai Calligraphy and Painting Publishing House as the deputy editor of contemporary art magazine Art China. Now he is a professional artist, living and working in Shanghai and Chongqing. INDIVIDUAL INTRODUCTION Qi Lan’s artistic creation is an action of painting under oppression, and a practice of both intricate thinking and visual experimentation. The traditions that he chooses to accept or reject, is the source and material of his creation. He dialogues with the classics in a way of making queries and innovations instead of following them faithfully. He pursues the integrated artistic expression of painting, which demands not only great patience,but also the subtle artistic intuition at his disposal. His painting process is like setting up dominoes and pushing it over again and again, producing countless variables and moving on with interrupts and meanders. Qi Lan is both an artist and a critic. He criticizes and challenges not only the outside world but also the numerous anchor points in his knowledge, experiences and thoughts. His art is exactly the externalized visual representation of those anchor points. Colors and density are extremely significant in the change of Qi Lan’s new works. They reveal how an object, a figure and a space are multi-dimensionally constructed and how they are penetrated, extruded, dispelled and then finally complete the meeting and parting with other objects, figures and spaces. Many of these paintings,as they have been washed and soaked by plaster water, have mottled backgrounds. The whitish grey strokes splash and flow on paintings, and converge with the colorful acrylic, oil painting sticks and pastels,making waves of brilliant colors surging upward. The vanishing instants are given tangible forms as the expanding and overlaying brushworks try to transcend the exhaustion of time with short and strong rhythm. Qi Lan is obsessed with expressing the vast nihility beyond images. He seeks languages greater than image itself. The layers of space he pushes through is in effect an intricate and flowing spiritual world. Qi Lan is deeply convinced that inner visual sense is an eternal variable, and he rejects any stylized and formalized painting languages. He keeps progressing on the route of the unfinished present, repudiating the past and seizing the present simultaneously. Vise versa,the past is reused to develop the ideas about the present. Every scene and instant under his brushes connects the past and the future closely. SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2019 “A Few White Clouds at Sea——Qi Lan 's Solo Exhibition 2019”,Line Gallery,Shanghai,China 2018 “Space 7-Youth Academic Nomination Exhibition of Guangdong Museum of Art” · First Round, Guangdong Museum of Art ,Guangzhou. 2016 “In No Hurry-Qi Lan Solo Exhibition”, Museum of Contemporary Art Chengdu (MOCA), Chengdu, China. 2013 “Bye, Mr. Dong Qichang-Qi Lan Solo Exhibition”, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Chengdu, China. 2011 “Uninhibited Scenery”, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Chengdu, China; GROUP EXHIBITIONS (& Academic support) 2017 “A Thousand Plateaus Exhibition for the Tenth Anniversary”, A Thousand plateaus Art Space, Chengdu, China. “Extension at Sea: Shanghai Artists Joint Exhibition 2017”, China Art Museum Shanghai, China. “Views from the other side”, Mingyuan Art Museum, Shanghai, China. “Zhi Shu-Exhibition of Contemporary Artists”, the Bund art world of Shanghai Everbright Bank, Shanghai, China. Academic host of “Yin Zhaoyang at Songshan Mountain”, Suzhou Museum, Suzhou, China. 2016 “Innocent”, Nuoart Gallery, Beijing, China. Academic host of “Beyond Clouds: Wang Jieyin Solo Exhibition”, Long Museum, Shanghai, China. “The 6th Sea Horizon Painting and Sculpture Exhibition”, China Art Museum, Shanghai, China. 2015 Contributing Critic of “Calligraphic Time and Space: Abstract Art in China”, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China. 2014 “He Gong and My Friends”, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Chengdu, China. “The 8th International Ink Art Biennale of Shenzhen”, Guan Shanyue Art Museum, Shen Zhen, China. 2013 Contributing Critic of “Criss-Cross: Artworks of Young Chinese Contemporary Artists from Long Collection”, Long Museum, Shanghai, China. Contributing Critic of “Art Changsha”, Hunan Province Musuem, Hunan TV, China. 2012 Contributing Critic of “Reactivation”, Power Station Art, Shanghai, China. 2011 Contributing Critic of “Chinese Brush”, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China. 2010 “Day to Day: The Intuitive Description of Cultural Survival”, Nanjing Qinghe Contemporary Art Museum, Nanjing, China. 2009 Academic host of “Cheng Du – Blue House: Our History & Our Present”,Opening Ceremony of Blue Top Art Gallery, Chengdu, China. 2008 Academic host of “Corresponding: Nanjing & Chengdu”, Qinghe Current Art Center, Nanjing, China. 2007 Academic host of “China’s New Painting, A Triumph over Images: 2007 Art China Nomination Exhibition”, Shanghai Museum of Art & Art China, Shanghai, China. PUBLICATIONS 2007 Published The Study of the Flowers and Birds Painting from the 15th Century to 17th Century in Suzhou (monograph), Shanghai Calligraphy and Painting Publishing house. 2006 Published The Study of Landscape Painting of the Early Qing Dynasty in Nanjing(monograph); The Study of the Landscape Painting of 18 Century in Yangzhou (monograph); The Study of the Landscape Painting of 16 Century in Suzhou (monograph), Shanghai Calligraphy and Painting Publishing House. |
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