ARTIST

Wang Kai

1962, born in Suzhou of Jiangsu province, China

1989, graduated from Central Academy of Art and Crafts (now Tsinghua University, Academy of Arts&Design)

Currently lives and works in Shanghai

Associate professor of East China Normal University, Department of Art

Exhibitions:

2015 God Knows, Renke Art Gallery, Hangzhou

2012 In Transit, Renke Art Gallery, Hangzhou

2011 Self-Examination, Renke Art Gallery, Hangzhou

2008 Aquilaria Agallocha, Eye Level Gallery, Shanghai

          798 Art Festival Theme Exhibition, Beijing

          Digital & Photographic Time, No.10 Gallery of Art, Chengdu

2007 Contemporary Representation, Wu Jiao Chang 800 Art Space, Shanghai

          Artists’ Nomination/Invitation Exhibition, Yuan Art Museum, Shanghai

          Shanghai Art Fair Emerging Artists Exhibition (Asia), Shanghai Mart, Shanghai

2006 Chinese Symbols, M50 Space Da, Shanghai

          Contemporary Art Exhibition: Shanghai Academic Culture, Shanghai Art Centre

          Shanghai Abstract Painting Exhibition, Ming Yuan Group Art & Culture Centre, Shanghai

          Contemporary Photography Exhibition, No. 1178 Wai Ma Lu Warehouse, Shanghai

          Sea Level Paining & Scupture, Liu Hai Su Art Museum, Shanghai

2005 Homage to ‘85, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai

2004 2cd Contemporary Art Invitation Exhibition, East Coast Museum

          5th Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai

2003 Oil Painting Exhibition, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai

          Status Group Exhibition, HSS Art&Exhibition Centre, Shanghai

          Different Choices:‘60s Artist Invitation Exhibition,  Peninsula Art Museum, Shanghai

2001  Shanghai Art Exhibition, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai

2000  Serene Poetry: Wang Kai’s Solo Exhibition, South Taiwan Gallery, Taiwan

1997  Chinese Abstract Ink Painting Exhibition, Centre Culturel de Chine à Paris, France

1995  Chinese Contemporary Art Exchange Exhibition, Chicago Gallery, America

1993  Shanghai Youth Art Exhibition, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai

1989  7th National Art Exhibition, China Art Museum, Beijing

1988  Expression: Wang Kai’s Art Exhibition, Tsinghua University, Beijing

Zhang Hao

1962 born in Tianjing, China

1985 graduated from Professor Shu Chuanxi’s Studio, Chinese Traditional Painting Dept., Zhejiang Academy of Art (now China Academy of Art), remained as a tutor.

Professor and Postgraduate Supervisor, China Academy of Art, CAA

Guest Professor, Dept. Art of Anhui University

Solo Exhibition   

2013   What Art Gives Me, Renkeart Art Gallery, Hangzhou, China

2013   The Shape of Journeys, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hongkong, China

2012   Spiritual Journey, Sanshang Contemporary Art Museum, Hangzhou, China

2010   Combination: Spiritual Journey of Zhang Hao, Contrasts Gallery, Shanghai, China

2009   The Power of Ink Painting, Bole Gallery, Shanghai, China

2007   Construct: Chinese Ink Painting by Zhang Hao, Sanshang Contemporary Art Museum, Beijing, China

2006   Chinese Ink Painting Series: Zhang Hao’s Solo Exhibition, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China

2002   Zhang Hao: Contemporary Chinese Ink Painting, Paris International Art City, France

1994   Zhang Hao: Exploring Chinese Ink Painting, Contemporary Art Museum, Beijing, China

Group Exhibition

2015    Cross the Year, Renke Art Gallery, Hangzhou, China

2014    2014 ARTE FIERA, Bologna, Italy

2013    Image and Words: Since Magritte Era, National Art Museum Of China, Beijing, China

2013    The Creation of Culture Context: Ink and Wash Articles – Series Exhibitions On Contemporary Ink Painting, Wuhan Art Musuem, Wuhan, China

2013    In Transit, Renke Art Gallery, Hangzhou, China

2012    The Exhibition Cross the Year, Sanshang Contemporary Art Museum, Hangzhou, China

2012    Primary Forms of Ink and Wash, Shanchuan Museum of Contemporary Art, Nanjing, China

2012    Micro Garden: China and Japan Contemporary Art Exhibition, Renke Art Gallery, Hangzhou, China           

2011    Great Heaven of Abstract, MARCO, Roma, Italy

2006    Shanghai New Ink Painting Exhibition, Toronto, Canada

2000    Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China

1998    The first Shenzhen International Ink Painting Biennale, Guan Shanyue Art Museum, Shenzhen, China

1991    The first Chinese Contemporary Art Documentation Exhibition, Chinese Painting Research Institute, Beijing, China

PREFACE

In transit

Text／He Yongmiao

We are our own demons at times, helplessly unable to break free from the dubious clutches of language, from vanity, self-abuse ... We persist in doing harm to ourselves; then, just as persistently, we take measures to console and nourish ourselves. We place ourselves between the heaven and hell of language, searching for a potential means of egress.
It’s an enduring problem these two artists face up to. Transit resumes, or is taken up again.
I fall back on the inconclusive hermeneutic of Art ... A sort of rhetoric for artistic texts (ancient, contemporary) Go look, go and listen (the thought follows me around every day), I voice my respect for art, for artists. By putting faith in such contexts, I believe one can escape the fear of the future, the sense of hazardousness with which people today regard the present. Who knows, these phenomena and I, we are all concurrent. I have to recognise the fact that we are destined to repeat our errors.
I feel a kind of anxiety. Our cumulative industry only pushes language further towards disaster; even the self is annihilated. There will be a day we’re replaced, discarded in the darkness, in the echoes, the wind ... All the pursuits of today (whether outward, or internal), our irrepressible, impulsive adulation for language in fact closes it off; forcing it into a kind of isolation. This is the dour state of the present. It concerns me, along with all the other reticent thinkers.
Painting, another tribute to language, all its forms and different hues, so varied and numerous, it’s as if she were forever telling the story of the end of time. And artists, each retread their tracks, whether moving ahead or regressing, all bestowing time with their gifts. I came across a noun for this, obsession. It is an obsession that permits the artist to exist on the paths of imagination.
All that supports, that implies the sum total of our earthly pleasures, those things we indulge in routinely, proffered as the optimum, a success and perfect, it all emerges through a sort of projective language. Not redundant, not an excess, but rather an aggregate for anything we wish to enunciate.
I am fortunate enough to know the artists buried at work in these problems, to have become one among their spectators.
 

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