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The Red Mountain - 1991
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Zhang Yongqing does not belong to any of the "art schools" in China. Born in Handan in China, he lives and works in the Northwestern frontier region of China. His art works of unusual landscapes are among the favorites of our clients.

The Lonely Rider

The artist was born in Handan, China. He has worked as a geologist. We have no information from China that he quit the geologist job in the meantime. Zhang Yongqing is a successful, contemporary Chinese printmaker. Looking at his print creations and his activities in exhibitions and publications, he must be pretty busy with his art job.

But we should rather speak of vocations than of jobs and professions. And for Zhang Yongqing, both - printmaking and geology - seem to be a vocation, a strong passion.

The artist's best designs are the depictions of unusual landscapes - scenes of deserts, mountains, mysterious, forgotten cities buried under the sand, camels in front of a glacier. Quite honestly, we at artelino first assumed Zhang's art to be at home in the fantasy genre. Until we took a map and a book about China into our hands. These scenes are real - even the camels in front of a glacier. It is maybe the mature mastership of Zhang Yongqing that makes you believe they might be not.

Zhang Yongqing is a professional under all aspects. He has mastered a number of Western printmaking techniques. And as some contemporary and mature artists in the West and in Japan frequently do, he combined several of these techniques to his own mixed media style. Zhang uses etching, lithograph and serigraph in one print.

Zhang Yongqing does not belong to any of the major art movements in China. He does not need the guidance of others. He is the loner who finds his own way, under any conditions and in even in extreme terrain - just like the lonely camel rider in the desert on one of his best designs.

Affiliations

• Member of Chinese Artist Association
• Director of Chinese Printmakers Association
• Vice president of print seminar of Hebei province
• Painter of Hebei Province Painting Academy
• Professor of Art Department of Chinese Environment Academy

Art Prints and Awards

Life - 1993
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Below is a list of awards and prizes that the artist's prints have won. We mention the information as we had received it from our Chinese partner. Presently we have no further details like the year of the award. Nor are we always aware of the exact meaning and positioning of the organizations involved. Our process of understanding the contemporary Chinese art scene is still in an early stage. And as the Chinese organizations and institutions do not have unified names in English, each translation may result in minor variations and in different writings.

Some of the awarded print designs have been offered in past artelino auctions and may still be available in coming auctions.

• "Winter" won the bronze prize of the 11th National Print Exposition of China
• "Warm Breeze and Autumn Sun" won the classical prize of the International Biennial Print Exposition in Beijing
• "The Feeling of Northern Border" was honored as excellent print in China's National Art Exposition
• "Autumn Sun 2" won the Golden Color Prize awarded by Chinese Art Association
• "Bell of Camel Team" was honored as excellent print by the central propagandistic department
• The series "Exploiter" was honored as excellent print by the Chinese Culture Association
• "Echo" was accepted for the 10th National Print Exposition
• "Oasis 2" was accepted for the 12th National Print Exposition
• "Loulan City" was accepted for the 13th National Print Exposition
• "Life" was chosen to be shown in the National Print Medias Exposition
• "Mother's Flower" was chosen to be shown in the Chinese Art Exposition
• "Clear Breeze" was chosen for the National Print Exposition for Young Artists
• "Snow Night" was chosen for the exposition of "100 Years of Chinese Print"
• "Lotus's Chant" was chosen for the 16th National Print Exposition
• "Faint Fragrance in the Corridor" was chosen for the Chinese Print Exposition

Collections

Warm Breeze and Autumn Summer, 2002
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Art works of Zhang Yongqing have been collected by a number of museums in China and in Japan.

• Kanagawa Art Museum in Japan
• Shenzhen Art Museum
• Art Museum of Jiangsu province
• Painting Academy of Hebei province
• Chinese Print Museum
• Art Museum of Qingdao
• Art Museum of Canton
• Art Museum of Anhui province
• Taihe International Art Collection
• Chinese Art Association
• Chinese Geologic Museum

International Expositions and Press Reviews

Zhang Yongqing print works have been shown in personal expositions in Taipei, Shanghai, and Chicago. More than 20 of his prints have been chosen in international print exposition in Kanagawa Japan, Spain, Macedonia and Egypt.

Prints by Yongqing were published in a series of magazines and newspapers.

• Art
• Print Art
• Chinese Prints
• The World of Prints
• Chinese and Japanese Artwork Collection
• International Artwork Collection
• Art Works of Chinese Artists
• Collection of Chinese Prints
• Collection of Chinese Prints in 100 Year's
• Worker's Newspaper
• Chinese Youth Newspaper

Publications by Zhang Yongqing

Love Knot for the Glacier, 1993
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The artist has made a series of publications about his own print works and about printmaking.

• Prints of Zhang Yongqing
• Chinese Geologic Artist
• Ideas of Creation
• River Novel
• LE TANG village

Zhang Yongqing wrote a dissertation titled "Discussion of the Appearance of Chinese Art"

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