Brussels Oriental Art Fair
Artist: Shen Fan
Shanghai, China
Oil on canvas
98 x 32 cm
1998

Shen Fan attended the Fine Arts Department of the Shanghai Light Industry Institute in the late 80’. In the 1990s, he became one of the first Chinese artists to be invited overseas, studying at the European Ceramics Work Centre in the Netherlands. He explored walsh technique and oil painting on paper and then on canvas to become one of the major Abstract Artist of the Shanghai art scene. The works after 2000 takes up an idea the artist was already pursuing in 1994. He was hoping his works would be interpreted as an abstraction of calligraphy.
Shen Fan’s most recent work has made use of neon lights to create large installation works. The first of these was shown at the 2006 Shanghai Biennial. Landscape: A Tribute to Huang Binhong (1845-1955) was a five-by-ten meter neon light installation set to the slow plucking of a traditional Chinese musical instrument, the zither. Joe Martin Hill in the December 2006 of Yishu Magazine commented that this work was worthy “to contemplate the weight of history and its contemporary reformulation”.
Born in 1952, lives and works in Shanghai and is one of the main figures of Shanghart Gallery.
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