Date of Exhibition: December 2, 2017-January 3, 2018
Opening: 3:30 pm, December 2, 2017
Address: Renke Art Gallery (No. 1, North Zhongshan Road, Hangzhou City)
The RENKE ART GALLERY is very honored to present Chen Haiyan's exhibition - the dream on knife tip. The exhibition selected 30 of the most representative works of the artist from the 80s of last century to the present. Dream is the source of the artist's creation, and she has recorded the dream diary from 1981 and continued this habit for 37 years. The diary manuscripts that record dreams have accumulated hundreds of books. Chen Haiyan turned something very mysterious and romantic into a picture, telling the world the beauty of beauty. Chen Haiyan's dream is a huge dream, life is more than a broad free dream, and the dream is also a kind of life, a real life.
1955 |
Born in Fushun, Liaoning, China |
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EDUCATION |
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1984
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BA Department of Printmaking, Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now China Academy of Art), Hangzhou |
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TEACHING POSITION |
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1984-present |
Department of Printmaking, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou |
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AWARDS & HONORS |
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1999
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Lu Xun Engraving Award, granted by the Qingdao Engraving Artists Association, Qingdao, China |
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1994
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Pave the Road (copperplate), silver award, Art Exhibition in Zhejiang Province Celebrating the 45th Anniversary of the Founding of the People’s Republic of China, Hangzhou, China Dream–Butterfly (copperplate), bronze award, The 12thNational Chinese Printing Works Display, Shenzhen, China |
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1991
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Love is Red (copperplate), excellence award, National Fine Arts Exhibition of Three Types of Printing, Nanjing, China |
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1985
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Horizon (copperplate), Third Class Prize, Exhibition of the Works of Fine Arts by the Progressive Chinese Youth, Beijing, China |
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
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2016 |
Lignin Gold Sound:Chen Haiyan Art Exhibition, Fujian Art Museum, Fuzhou, China |
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2014
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In Every Flower a World: An Exhibition of Chen Haiyan’s Prints, Art Gallery No. 2, Hangzhou, China Ink Studio at the Armory Show 2014: Works by Chen Haiyan, Pier 94: The Armory Show 2014, New York, USA |
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2013 |
Chen Haiyan: Carving the Unconscious, Ink Studio, Beijing, China |
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2012 |
A Week's Dreams, Artone Center, Hangzhou, China |
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2008 |
Works by Chen Haiyan, 798 Art District, Beijing, China |
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2003
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Chagall & Chagall: The Artworks of Chen Haiyan, Asia Museum, DaeJeon City, South Korea |
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2000
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Exhibition of Woodblock Prints by Chen Haiyan, College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA |
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1996
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Contemporary Prints by Chen Haiyan, Clotworthy Arts Centre, Antrim, UK Prints by Chen Haiyan, The Elmwood Gallery, Ulster Arts Club, Belfast, UK |
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1990
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Dreams: Woodblock Prints by Chen Haiyan, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California, USA |
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
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2016 |
Ink and the Mind, Ink Studio, Beijing, China |
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2015 |
Last Summer: Artists’ European Trip Exhibition, Jueshe Gallery, Hangzhou, China |
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2014
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Ink and the Body, Ink Studio, Beijing, China Myriad Beings: Works by the Teachers and Graduate Students of the First Studio of the Department of Printmaking at the China Academy of Art, Ideallart Gallery, Hangzhou, China Reading People: Shanghai International Printmaking Exhibition 2014, China Art Museum, Shanghai |
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2011
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Burden and Rediscover: Woodblock Prints from the China Academy of Art, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou The Face of Lu Xun — Exhibition Celebrating the 80th Anniversary of China's New Woodcut Movement and the 130th Anniversary of Lu Xun’s Birth, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China The 19th National Print-making Exhibition, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
Trace, Invitational Exhibition of Chinese Print Art Masters’ Works, Lingnan Fine Arts Museum, Dongguan, China 2011 Guanlan International Print Biennial, Guanlan Original Printmaking Base, Shenzhen, China |
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2010
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Ecology and Home, Fourth Beijing International Art Biennale, National Art Museum of China, Beijing |
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2009
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Post-Mao Dreaming: Contemporary Art, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA Three Decades: The Contemporary Chinese Collection, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia |
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2007 |
Vision Féminine—Six Chinese Artists in Venice, Fondaco dell’Arte, Venice, Italy |
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2006 |
Dream: In Black & White, Art Beatus, Vancouver, Canada |
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2004 |
Techniques of the Visible, Shanghai Biennale 2004, Shanghai Art Museum, China |
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2003
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An Opening Era: Celebration of the 40th Anniversary of the Founding of the National Art Museum of China, National Art Museum of China, Beijing Parallel Time: Asian Contemporary Art Exhibition, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou |
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2002
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Chinese Printmaking Today: Woodblock Printing in China 1980–2000, British Library, London, UK Female Vision: Exhibition of Chinese Female Artists, Western Australian Museum, Perth |
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2001
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Art Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago, USA Five Professors’ Exhibition, Haining Museum, China The 1st Fine Art Exhibition, Jinmao Tower, Shanghai, China The West Lake Gallery Exhibition, West Lake Gallery, Hangzhou, China Shanghai Invitational Exhibition of Print Making, M50, Shanghai, China |
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2000 |
Korea-China Professors' Exhibition, Dongduk Women's University, Seoul, Korea |
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1999
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Eastlink: Grand Opening of Shanghai's New Contemporary Art Gallery Showing Work by Selected Chinese Artists, Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai, China 1999 Art China, LIMN Gallery, San Francisco, USA |
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1998
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Die Hälfte des Himmels: ChinesischeKünstlerinnen, Frauenmuseum, Bonn, Germany
Jiangnan: Modern and Contemporary Art from South of the Yangzi River, The Art Institute of Vancouver, Canada The Other Shore of the Sea: Engravings Exhibition, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, USA |
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1997
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Exhibition by Asian Women Artists, Regional Workshop on Plastic Arts for Women in Asia, Tehran, Iran Exhibition by Women Artists, Aichach Art Association, Aichach, Germany |
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1996
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Fine Arts Exhibition by Chinese Women Artists, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, USA
The People’s Progress: Twentieth Century Chinese Woodcuts, Art Gallery of South New Wales, Sydney, Australia China —Aktuelles aus 15 Ateliers, Räumen der Heßstraße, Munich, Germany |
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1995
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Images of the Western Lake: The Revival of the Colour Print in Contemporary China, British Museum, London, UK Spaces: Sino-Austrian Exhibition of Female Artists’ Works, Vienna Parliament, Austria; Meerscheinschloss, University of Graz, Austria; Zhejiang Provincial Museum, Hangzhou, China |
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1994
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New Art from China: Post-1989, Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK Voices from the Edge: Paintings, Installation and Video Art by Ten Chinese Women Artists, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China |
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1993
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China Avant-garde: Counter-currents in Art and Culture, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany; Kunsthal Rotterdam, Netherlands; The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK; Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense, Denmark New Art from China: Post-1989, Pao Gallery and Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong, China |
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1992
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New Art from China: Post-Mao Product, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane; City of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat; Canberra School of Art Gallery, Australia |
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1991
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“I Don't Want to Play Cards with Cézanne" and Other Works: Selections from the Chinese "New Wave" and "Avant-Garde" Art of the Eighties, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California, USA |
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1989
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China/Avant-Garde, National Art Museum of China, Beijing Contemporary Asian Art Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan |
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1987
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Beyond the Open Door: Contemporary Paintings from the People’s Republic of China, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California, USA
Modern Chinese Painting Exhibition, Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK Print Exhibition, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, UK |
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COLLECTIONS |
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British Museum, London, UK China Art Museum, Shanghai Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China Muban Educational Trust, London, UK Museum of Sydney, Australia National Art Museum of China, Beijing Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California, USA Portland Museum of Art, USA Qingdao Art Museum, China Shenzhen Art Museum, China Shenzhou Engraving Museum, Chengdu, China White Rabbit Contemporary Chinese Art Collection, Sydney, Australia The World Bank, Washington, DC, USA |
PREFACE
Text/Xu Jiang
Dream on knife tip
——Reading Chen Haiyan's works
What is the dream?
Dream is a kind of wrong, a kind of disorder, dream is a kind of grasping and uncertain vision. The dictionary says that dreams are the active activity of the active cerebral cortex during sleep. Modern science proves that dream is not a psychological process, but a psychological expression of physical stimulus. Freud insisted: there are many factors to the dream, the dream is in the human subconscious to show some kind of desire to meet.
Why tell dream from both psychology and psychiatry, but never dream is another realm of people's attention. It is absurd but recognizable, abrupt but with a realistic hook. People's daily anxiety, the thoughts of repression and neglect, the hidden idea of deep diving, change in the dream and some kind of image. This phenomenon is so complicated and bizarre, so lively and extraordinary, become a subconscious recourse come again in sight, become the special perspective of the creation of this life, men of literature and writing from ancient to modern times in Sri lanka.
Chen Haiyan is such a live in a dream, and to let the dream woodcut knife visible prominent artists.
Crisp short tone
When do you start dreaming?
Chen Haiyan narrowed his eyes as if in a dream.
She must be a day dreaming person. "Dream is a kind of life, a very real life."." The earliest dream, or the dream that has long been caught, was in 1985. Then the small dreams, like the seal, the black majority, in a hurry to write down the erratic "dream", carved with a knife. It was a period of "dream", the knife running on the board, the writing running, and running around a few symbols - shape symbols. The characters and characters are wrapped together and connected to each other. The word, the picture, is presented in the same way as many scenes appear in the dream. The dream is full of time and jumping, no front and back, no first place, just anxiety. A knife's desire and hope. Now it really becomes a knife, bright and sharp, and the tool point is dancing like a dream. The blade is lively and pure, let the shape symbol, character clearly revealed, like the dream itself, elegant, lingering.
That is a fairy tale dream, no end, only fragments, only the crisp short tune.
Extensive pastoral
"I dragged my son up a huge high wall, and there were deep roads, trees, and snow. I told my son I jumped first, and I heard the call of the car down the road, swimming in the air......." (January 2, 1999) "I planted flowers in pots, and dug in a hollow tree with spades to grow flowers."......." (March 22, 1999) a peacock appeared on the window and grew green leaves on its head." (May 19, 1999)"...... But the green reeds grow so strong and there is no trace of dust,......" (June 19, 1999)
The dream of 90s became more touching, more beautiful, but it was a knife, but deeper plowing into the black board, plowing into the night. The glyph becomes extensive, as if with black, with the night merge. The knife between the traces of a knife, do not modified, with night continued tension, with the dream of "dream" of the atmosphere. It marks a piece to stick together, the graphics made it full of tension. The shapes are black and white, and they are free and easy. The knife to boldly operating, farming run in the chart, the strong flavor, and bold, so deep, has map itself into the dream itself.
The night is deep, and the dream is deep.
Wonderful Arias
At the beginning of twenty-first Century, Haiyan began to dream in ink on rice paper. The dream as if all of a sudden the illuminated, indulge color, have passion and dreams but to say goodbye to the clouds, short tone and pastoral, show a more "vision of life". Washing machine in the bicycle, the Academy of fine arts, the old pond black car and white flower curtain, hot barrel, 1938 temple...... We seem to enter a fantasy City, a bit absurd, but a bit familiar. The pen and ink is bold and resolute, with a kind of knife like indulgence and male sink. The simple shape and magnificent color run freely, interwoven into a dream deep sigh yin. We found the word, the word that records the dream, the dream word disappeared, fell down. We recognize the dream in the dream of the picture, in the dream we freely with her in a dream, or that we in a dream and dream to confirm the existence of non.
Finally, we stood in front of these tall people. The light flashed by, turned into candlelight, the flickering candlelight. Here, the dream like word comes back with the knife. The knife becomes open and bold, sharp and indulgence, with dreams of hunger, it can cut the knife ax, let the word profiling, the shapes of clouds and graphics stack together. Knife in the form of visible moment disappeared, leaving a spirit, a kind of natural. It is such a pity, rhyme filled with dreams, dispersed in the plate, with a knife edge induced. The knife to stay in the atmosphere as the shadow follows the form, the knife knife point, and myself in this dream.
The petrel flies on the wing of dream, or the dream flies on the wing of petrel?
Petrel dream is a dream, life is more than a broad free dream: the dream for the knife and thriving, and magnificent. Here just gently opened the dream in a hurry or yarn, hold the knife light shadow dream. We do not disturb this kind of dreamland, but the heart is always unforgettable, but the dream on the tool point is always unforgettable, but this another special life situation.
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