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He and she, a couple, two spiritual travellers, they pay attention to landscapes, and concern about lives as well. They accept the nature's greatest marvels in person. Close to nature, they return to their inner world from the nature, then project the different stages of their lives onto the art works. Renke is pleased to present the dual solo exhibition of works by Zhang Hao and Bao Fengxia.
ARTISTS
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张浩 ／ 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.
Guest Professor, Dept. Art of Anhui University
Solo Exhibitions
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
鲍凤霞 ／ Bao Fengxia
Worked as a Chinese teacher in a normal university for seven years
1991, worked as an editor and journalist in Popular TV. Interviewed famous actors such as Gong Li, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Bao Guo’an, Jiang Shan, He Saifei, wrote nearly 100 interviews
Won the national excellent interviews, 2nd and 3rd price of provincial excellent news report several times
2001, travel to Europe, visited many national museums and galleries
2006-2007, study oil painting in China Academy of Art
2007, Creative art valley –work of the West Lake Creative Valley studios, Academy Gallery
2008， work Meeting Oil Painting published in Art Monthly, Jia Fangzhou wrote article Draw by nature and win by nature – thoughts on Bao Fengxia’s paintings
2008, work published in China Art Weekly, Gao Tianmin wrote article Bao Fengxia’s Dreamland Tour
2010, Absolute C Gravitation Art – Summer, dual exhibition of Bao Fengxia and Xie Hai, Yuanrui Volvo 4S store
2011, artistic observation and study journey to Italy
PREFACE
Zhang Hao’s and Bao Fengxia’s life and art are unique. They present the true and genuine power of a generation, with the enthusiasm and innocence of youth, they enjoy the honing of art. Zhang Hao’s early work draws nourishment from the folk and the tradition, from 1985 to 1999, he created large amount of work, and held solo exhibition in Nanjing, Shanghai, Chongqing and Hangzhou. Until he attended the Shanghai biennale in 2000, his artistic languages had new breakthroughs and innovations, started his contemporary ink painting stage. The reason for this important change is that he has found an important meaning in the existence of Chinese ink art – using China’s unique brush and ink, along with the traditional calligraphy methods and contemporary visual languages, to express the spirit world and to build a space witch fulfilled with contemporary soul. The trip to Europe had change Bao Fengxia’s life at her thirties. She started to know art and to create oil paintings. The imaginative and creative masterpieces of the Louvre, Orsay Museum, the Centre Pompidou, Picasso Museum, and all other European museums always touched her. She and Zhang Hao always wandered the streets of Paris. She was obsessed with the glow of the beige building that shone in the quiet sunlight, and she had a long curiosity about the colorful and quaint architecture of the European town. The history and people of these architectures make her imagine and always amazed.
People asked Socrates where did he came from, he answered that he didn’t came from Athens but the world. And I think Zhang Hao’s ink Painting are not only China oriented but also international. The reason why his ink paintings are so unique is because he chooses to express the most important things. The work the Baptism of Spirit focused on spirit and soul, his continuous seeking and feeling show the unique spirit world of ink art. He uses the contemporary visual form and his own visual language to express spirit and soul. The spirit connotation inside Zhang hao’s work is stunning, his spiritual journey dwelling on the thoughts between oneself and the society, individual and the public, material and soul. He has been the world and seen the world, but retain a holistic understanding of human ecology, therefore, he also retains enough horizon, perception and comprehension.
An artist spends his whole life dealing with the relationship between cultural tradition and personal reality. Personal feelings are the primary factor in achieving balance between the rules of language and individual freedom, there are no abstract and pure humanity, and only in a figurative living environment one’s feeling can show the artist’s sincerity and passion because of the pertinence and conflict. The movements of ink and brush triggered the shock of the soul. Zhang Hao stood alone in the flowing time thinking, the fragmented memories swirl around in his mind while the ink formed a mass of blooming.
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