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"Art is to express the experience of life"
(Chen Guangyong)
Chen Guangyong's silkscreen prints show gloves, x-rays or street lamps. The young avant-garde artist confronts us with items from our daily experience, and puts them into a context of personal experience and perception.
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Witty, Well-Made, Interesting
Even if you do not care much about the intellectual interpretation of Chen Guangyong's art works you will like them. They are often witty, well made and look interesting. The art scene in China has accepted his works well, and gave him a lot of laurels and awards at art exhibitions.
Education and Training
Chen Guangyong is a leading young avant-garde printmaking artist of Yunnan School. He was born in Zhaotong in Yunnan Province in 1973 and graduated from Yunnan Art University in 1999. Mr. Chen Guangyong is a member of Yunnan Artists Association.
His works have won a number of prizes in national and provincial art exhibitions and have been collected by the Chinese Printmaking Museum. Chen Guangyong has obtained the top prizes of "Literature and Arts Awards" three times by the Zhaotong Prefecture government.
Exhibitions and Awards
- 2001 - The silkscreen prints "The Image of X-Ray" and "The Image of X-Ray 4" participated in the first National Silkscreen Prints Exhibition and obtained the outstanding prize.
- 2001 - The print "The Image of X-Ray No.4" attended the 7th National Lithography, Etching and Silkscreen Print Exhibition in Hubei province and won the outstanding prize.
- 2002 - The prints "Gloves Series No.3" and "Gloves Series No.4" attended the 16th National Print Exhibition in Hefei city.
- 2002 - The print "The Image of X-Ray" attended the 5th Kochi International Print Exhibition, Kochi, Japan.
- 2003 - The print "Gloves Series No.4" attended the 8th National Lithography, Etching and Silkscreen Prints Exhibition in Chongqing city.
- 2004 - The print "Gloves Series No.8" attended the 2nd National Silkscreen Prints Exhibition in Tianjin city and won the copper prize.
- 2005 - The silkscreen prints "Glove No.8", "Series of Palm. Clapping 1", "Series of Palm. Clapping 2" participated in the Invitation Exhibition of the 20 Chinese Contemporary Silkscreen Print Artists.
- 2005 - The silkscreen prints "Glove No.8", "Series of Palm. Clapping 1", "Series of Palm. Clapping 2" participated in the Invitation Exhibition of the 20 Chinese Contemporary Silkscreen Print Artists.
- 2005 - The silkscreen print "The Series of Superstar - Hero" participated in the 6th Yunnan Physical Education Exhibition and obtained the third prize.
- 2006 - 9 prints of the "Gloves Series" attended the "7+1" Print Exhibition at 798 Art Gallery in Beijing.
- 2007 - The prints "Shadow Series No.1, No.2, and No.3" attended the 8th Yunnan Print Exhibition in Kunming, and won an outstanding prize.
- 2007 - The print "Shadow Series No.5" attended the 18th National Print Exhibition in Shanghai.
- 2008 - The print "Shadow Series No.13" attended the Print Exhibition in Yunnan and Suzhou.
- 2009 - The print "Roses No.2" from the "Shadow Series" was selected for the 2nd Guanlan International Print Exhibition.
Chinese Art Critics and Friends
The following comments on the artist's work were in parts shortened and edited by artelino. They were taken from newspaper or magazine articles or published in exhibition catalogs.
By Mr. Yang Yong
"I remember Chen Guangyong's words that his prints are rooted deeply in real life. At that time, he first made a poker-face and then smiled casually with a mischievous expression for this untimely remark. Such words are in the heart of the older generation the words of an utopian. We could not understand such words. To us older ones real life has become a cruel experience since we experienced an era full of mass cultural violence, materialism and uncertain values."
"In Chen's early printmaking works, bandage, hospital prescription, syringe, wounded men and x-rays were adopted as his subjects. Lately, a common figure, a pair of gloves has dominated his paintings for many years. This symbol was given different connotations like authority, desire, warmth, touch, experience, history, impulse, criticism, solitude, estrangement, injury, danger and instinct of self-protection. In his latest works, we found common scenes and items of daily use have become his theme indicating his sensitivity for life."
Mr. Yang Yong in Chongqing
March 1, 2007
Inovation in Art Language
"Facing with rather depressed engraving creations in China, Mr. Chen wants to make innovation and exploration in art language. The art objects in this exhibition are one part of his diversified creation with distinctive characteristics."
"It is necessary to display oneself in the art environment with multiple cultures. Modern art needs to be confronted with different questions. For print works, much emphasis was put on skill and content. But innovation and searching for the meaning of art was neglected. Affected by rigid division of colleges and outdated ways of fine arts exhibition, the shallow art market promotes the decline of art prints. Therefore, the painter has to find his own way and extricate himself from stereotyped academism in printmaking. Printmaking is only one means in Mr. Chen's diversified creations."
"7+1" Engraving United Exhibition
August 2006
The Gloves Series
"The Gloves series has become Chen's distinctive representative and indicative art symbol. The painter puts his focus on common items seen from a special angle and with his individual experience. With sensitive thoughts and multiple experience, he indirectly expresses personal opinions that reflect his concerns and feelings for nature, society and human life."
from "China Contemporary Silk Screen Print 20 Painters Invitation Exhibition."
July 2005
Art and Life
The following is an excerpt from an article by Mr. Qian Xiuhua in Kunming, a newspaper published in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province.
"Art and life are two words frequently used at many occasions. According to Mr. Chen Guangyong, art is to express the experience from life. Mr. Chen experienced his life and has tasted both sweetness and bitterness. As a sober-minded artist, he always kept away from degeneration of life and kept his innocence of a child and his youth's sensitivity."
"He has acute eyesight on art. Along with the increase of his exquisite and subtle experience with his age, Mr. Chen shows more and more reasonable thoughts and control in his work. Just as a merchant squared accounts in every detail, he diligently worked on his images to create image readability and an ample artistic conception."
Qian Xiuhua in Kunming
March 2, 2007
The whole article translated, composed and edited by Dieter Wanczura
(November 2008, updated May 2009)
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