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<\/span><\/div><\/div>Qi Lan<\/p>\n
Details:
\n1973 born in Sichuan, China<\/p>\n
Now working and living in Shanghai and Chongqing<\/p>\n
Full-time artist<\/p>\n<\/div>
<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>A Journey of Artistic Mastery<\/h3>\n
Graduated from the Department of Chinese Traditional Painting in the Academy of Fine Arts, Southwest Normal University in 1996 and then graduated from the Department of Chinese Traditional Painting, Nanjing University of the Arts in 2001. He studied with Professor Wang Mengqi as a Ph.D. candidate in Fine Arts in 2007.<\/p>\n
From Editor to Artist: A Career Transformed<\/h3>\n
Between 2001 and 2018, he used to work for Shanghai Fine Arts Publisher as the deputy editor of the contemporary art magazine Art China<\/em>. He is currently a full-time artist. He works and lives in Shanghai and Chongqing.<\/p>\nRooted in Tradition, Inspired by Classics<\/h3>\n
In his early years, Qi Lan read the Chinese classics and studied the poetry of the pre-Qin scholars, The Book of Songs<\/em>, The Songs of Chu<\/em> and the poetry of the Tang and Song dynasties throughout his youth. The long years of literal reading and painting have constantly intermingled, clashing with each other in the modern cultural context, forming a unique oppressive and rebellious painting language.<\/p>\nRebellion Through the Canvas<\/h3>\n
Painting is for him a debate and reconstruction of knowledge, experience and thought. Each of his works is repeatedly debated and questioned. Using high-density language and variable rhetorical techniques, he searches for rhetorical opportunities in dialogues and debates with the classics of the past and present, drawing on them to deduce complex and varied rhetorical and writing styles, and to counter the homogenization of machine imaging with a variety of mediums and a miscellany of complexities.<\/p>\n
Breaking the Mold: Innovating Visual Expression<\/h3>\n
He emphasizes the physical experience of hand and material language, and has long studied traditional literati painting and Western modern painting, striving to conceive a sense of self-consistency in writing of literati cultivation, giving the traditional writing language a new contemporary visual form and presenting a novel cultural character.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
Jin jiang Spring Fills the Heaven and Earth (III)<\/i><\/h4>\n
2023-2024
\nMixed media on handmade bast paper
\n141 x 84.8 cm<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Jin Jiang Spring Fills the Heaven and Earth (I)<\/i><\/h4>\n
2023-2024
\nMixed media on handmade bast paper
\n141 x 84 cm<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/span>Collections<\/h4><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>Sichuan Fine Arts Institute Art Museum<\/p>\n
\nGuangdong Museum of Art<\/p>\n
\nChengdu Contemporary Art Museum<\/p>\n
\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/span>Art Fairs<\/h4><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>2025<\/h4>\n
2025 Art SG 2025, Singapore, Singapore<\/p>\n
\n2024<\/h4>\n
2024 Art Shenzhen 2024, Shenzhen, China<\/p>\n
\nArt021 Shanghai 2024, Shanghai, China<\/p>\n
\nArt Amoy 2024, Xiamen, China<\/p>\n
\nArt021 Hong Kong, HongKong, China<\/p>\n
\nArt Basel Hong Kong 2024, Hong Kong, China<\/p>\n
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<\/span><\/div>To Du Fu\u2014Strolling Alone <\/i><\/em>A<\/i><\/em>mong Flowers by Riverside<\/i><\/em>, 2024, Mixed media on handmade bast paper, 129 x 88 cm<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div> Qi Lan<\/p>\n Details: Now working and living in Shanghai and Chongqing<\/p>\n Full-time artist<\/p>\n<\/div> Graduated from the Department of Chinese Traditional Painting in the Academy of Fine Arts, Southwest Normal University in 1996 and then graduated from the Department of Chinese Traditional Painting, Nanjing University of the Arts in 2001. He studied with Professor Wang Mengqi as a Ph.D. candidate in Fine Arts in 2007.<\/p>\n Between 2001 and 2018, he used to work for Shanghai Fine Arts Publisher as the deputy editor of the contemporary art magazine Art China<\/em>. He is currently a full-time artist. He works and lives in Shanghai and Chongqing.<\/p>\n In his early years, Qi Lan read the Chinese classics and studied the poetry of the pre-Qin scholars, The Book of Songs<\/em>, The Songs of Chu<\/em> and the poetry of the Tang and Song dynasties throughout his youth. The long years of literal reading and painting have constantly intermingled, clashing with each other in the modern cultural context, forming a unique oppressive and rebellious painting language.<\/p>\n Painting is for him a debate and reconstruction of knowledge, experience and thought. Each of his works is repeatedly debated and questioned. Using high-density language and variable rhetorical techniques, he searches for rhetorical opportunities in dialogues and debates with the classics of the past and present, drawing on them to deduce complex and varied rhetorical and writing styles, and to counter the homogenization of machine imaging with a variety of mediums and a miscellany of complexities.<\/p>\n He emphasizes the physical experience of hand and material language, and has long studied traditional literati painting and Western modern painting, striving to conceive a sense of self-consistency in writing of literati cultivation, giving the traditional writing language a new contemporary visual form and presenting a novel cultural character.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div> 2023-2024 2023-2024 Sichuan Fine Arts Institute Art Museum<\/p>\n Guangdong Museum of Art<\/p>\n Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum<\/p>\n 2025 Art SG 2025, Singapore, Singapore<\/p>\n 2024 Art Shenzhen 2024, Shenzhen, China<\/p>\n Art021 Shanghai 2024, Shanghai, China<\/p>\n Art Amoy 2024, Xiamen, China<\/p>\n Art021 Hong Kong, HongKong, China<\/p>\n Art Basel Hong Kong 2024, Hong Kong, China<\/p>\n<\/span><\/div><\/div>
\n1973 born in Sichuan, China<\/p>\nA Journey of Artistic Mastery<\/h3>\n
From Editor to Artist: A Career Transformed<\/h3>\n
Rooted in Tradition, Inspired by Classics<\/h3>\n
Rebellion Through the Canvas<\/h3>\n
Breaking the Mold: Innovating Visual Expression<\/h3>\n
Jin jiang Spring Fills the Heaven and Earth (III)<\/i><\/h4>\n
\nMixed media on handmade bast paper
\n141 x 84.8 cm<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Jin Jiang Spring Fills the Heaven and Earth (I)<\/i><\/h4>\n
\nMixed media on handmade bast paper
\n141 x 84 cm<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Collections<\/h4><\/span>
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