Zeng Fanzhi

Zeng Fanzhi est né en 1964 à Wuhan (Chine). Formé à l’École des Beaux-Arts de sa ville natale, il découvre durant ces années d’enseignement l’art contemporain, chinois et occidental. Nourri par ces influences et soucieux de connaître un contexte plus effervescent, il part s’installer en 1993 à Pékin où il vit et travaille depuis.

Zeng Fanzhi est connu pour ses personnages avec puissants regards soulevés, sur les mains et les visages stéréotypés; il simule une certaine fatigue avec la société contemporaine dans laquelle la consommation atteint son apogée et conduit à la solitude et l’aliénation totale de la société et de soi-même. Ses peintures sont si riches en expression que nous rappelle l’art pouvoir explicatif peut atteindre.

COMMENTAIRE

Artiste marqué par l’expressionnisme, ZENG Fanzhi a tout d’abord fait figurer, dans ses premières peintures, des personnages écorchés. De 1994 à 2001, il a travaillé sur sa célèbre série Mask. Chaque personnage de cette série porte un masque blanc moulant parfaitement son visage. Ses personnages se protègent sur le visage, mais également en revêtant des vêtements dénotant un statut social confortable.

Si l’un considère l’œuvre en développement de Zeng Fanzhi comme le reflet d’un voyage psychologique, on est en droit de se demander où mène ce voyage. Il y a quinze ans, les protagonistes de ses peintures étaient des victimes sans défense habitant un monde illogique. Ensuite ils ont porté des masques pour entrer dans un royaume de flâneurs urbains partageant des relations superficielles. À présent, les masques sont tombés et les protagonistes sont totalement seuls, dépouillés et sans substance. Ils ont abandonné toute affectation. Peuvent-ils à présent se reconstruire ? Nous attendons la suite de ce voyage avec impatience.

EXPOSITIONS PERSONNELLES

2024

Near and Far/Now and Then, Presented by Los Angeles County Museum of Art, La Biennale di Venezia, Scuala Grande della Misericordi, Venice

2023

Old and New (Paintings 1988-2023), Museum of Art Pudong, Shanghai

Hauser and Wirth, LA, USA

2019

Collection Exhibition: Zng Fanzhi, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

2018

In The Studio, Hauser and Wirth, Zurich, London, Hong Kong

2017

Van Gogh, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

2016

Parcours, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

2015

Paintings, Drawings, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

Paintings, Drawings, Two Sculptures, Gagosian Gallery, 555 West NY, USA

2014

Musée du Louvre, Paris

2013
Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, France

2012–2013
Zeng Fanzhi, Gagosian Gallery, London, England

2012
Gagosian Gallery, Londres, UK

2011
Zeng Fanzhi, Gagosian Gallery, Hong kong, China

2010
Zeng Fanzhi: The Sublime, Union Temple, Brooklyn, USA
Zeng Fanzhi, Shanghai Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Zeng Fanzhi, The National Gallery of Foreign Art, Sofia, Bulgaria

2009
Zeng Fanzhi, Godia Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
Zeng Fanzhi, Acquavella Gallery, New York, USA

2008
Tai Ping You Xiang. ShanghART Gallery Beijing, Beijing, China

2007
Zeng Fanzhi, Musee d’art Moderne Saint-Etienne Metropole, Paris, France
Zeng Fanzhi, Idealism, Singapore Art Museum (SAM), Singapore
Zeng Fanzhi 1989-2007, Gallery Hyondai, Seoul, Korea

2006
Hero, Zeng Fanzhi Solo Exhibition, Art Basel Miami 06, Miami, US
Zeng Fanzhi, Gallery Wedel, London, UK

2005
Sky, Fine Art Literature, Wuhan, China
Paintings by Zeng Fanzhi, Hanart T Z Gallery, Hong Kong, China

2004
Unmask the Mask, Zeng Fanzhi, Artside Gallery, Korea
Face, Soobin Gallery, Singapore, Singapore
Scapes 1989-2004, The paintings of Zeng Fanzhi, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China

2003
I/We, 1991-2003, The Paintings of Zeng Fanzhi, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China

2001
Raw Beneath the Mask, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai, China

1998
Zeng Fanzhi: The Mask Series, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai, China
Zeng Fanzhi Works 1993-1998, CIFA (Central Academy of Fine Arts)
Gallery, Beijing, China

1995
Zeng Fanzhi: Behind the Mask, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China

1990
Zeng Fanzhi, Hubei Institute of Fine Arts Gallery, Wuhan, China

EXPOSITION DE GROUPE

2024

Urban Fluidity: Wuhan Biennale 2024. Wuhan Art Museum (Hankou and Qintai), China

2021

M+ Sigg Collection: From Revolution to Globalisation, M+, Hong Kong.

2019

Under Construction. Tank Shanghai

2018

From 1978 to 2018: Art History Shaped by 40 Artists. Powerlong Museum, Shanghai.

Turning Point – 40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Art. Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai.

Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Traveled to: Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain

2017

Arcadia. Gagosian, Hong Kong.

Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

Boundless Realities, Multiple Nows – Contemporary Art from Hubei as a Sample. Wanlin Art Museum of Wuhan University, China.

A Panorama of Rivers and Mountains: Blue– Green Landscape Paintings from across

Chinese History. The Palace Museum, Beijing.

2016

100 Years of Chinese Art— Opening Exhibition of Long Museum Chongqing. Long Museum Chongqing, China

Holzwege, ShanghART Gallery West Bund, Shanghai

Fosun Foundation, Shanghai

Sont Art Museum, the 1st Exhibition: From Vincent Willem Van Gogh to Chinese Contemporary Art Song Art Museum, Beijing, China

M+ Sigg Collection: Four Decades of Chinese Contemporary Art. ArtisTree, Hong Kong.

Time Memory. Minsheng Contemporary Art Museum, Beijing

2015

Target Choice: Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition of Collectors. Today Art Museum, Beijing, France

Picasso, Mania, Grand Palais, Paris

Psycho/Somatic: Visions of the Body in Contemporary East Asian Art. Allen Memorial Museum, Oberlin College, OH.

China 8: Contemporary Art FROM China on the Rhine and Ruhr: MKM Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst, Duisburg, Germany.

Fusion: Chinese Modern and Contemporary Art since 1930s. Wanlin Art Museum of Wuhan University, China

2014

Post Pop: East Meets West. The Saatchi Gallery, London.

Cosmos. Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum.

Le Jardin Décomposé / Decomposed Garden. Gagosian Gallery, Le Bourget, Paris. 1199

People – Collection from Long Museum. Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai.

Matter and Memory: Early Chinese Art Treasures. Gagosian Gallery, 980 Madison Avenue, New York.

Re-Modernization: 2014 Wuhan 3rd Documentary Exhibition of Fine Arts. Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China.

Parcours. Art Basel. Re-View—Opening Exhibition of Long Museum West Bund. Long Museum, Shanghai.

Right Is Wrong: Four Decades of Chinese Art from the M+ Sigg Collection. Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden. Myth / History: Yuz Collection of Contemporary Art. Yuz Museum Shanghai. Asian Crossover.

2C for ART, Salzburg, Austria.

I Look at Things . . .—Works from the Collection. Faurschou Foundation. Copenhagen

2013

Re: Portrait—The 2013 Hall Three Official 1 Art Exhibition. Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China.

Rewriting the Landscape: India and China. National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea.

Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Portrait of the Times: 30 Years of Chinese Contemporary Art. Power Station of Art, Shanghai.

Passage to History 20 Years of the Venice Biennale and Chinese Contemporary. Arsenale Nord, Nappa 89, Venice.

Prima Materia. Punta Della Dogana, Venice.

Those Leading Contemporary Art Practices: A Juried Invitational Exhibition of AAC. Today Art Museum, Beijing.

The Ode to Elegance: Exhibition of Selected Collection of Guangdong Museum of Art. Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China.

2012
Taste of the East, Masterpieces of Chinese Art, How Art Museum
Collection Exhibition, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
LATITUDE/ATTITUDE : 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong

2011
The World Belongs to You, Palalazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
Fusion, Contemporary Art Exhibition, Yiyuan Space, Wuhan, China

2010
Photo exhibition of contemporary artists. Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Clouds – Power of Asian contemporary art. Soka Art Center, Beijing, China
Made in Popland, National Museum of Contemporary art, Gwacheon, Korea
And-Writers 2010, Nan Jing Biennale, Jiangsu Art Museum, Nangjing, China
2010 The Constructed Dimension, 2010 Chinese Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition, National Art Musume of China, Beijing, China
Reshaping History: Chinart from 2000-2009, Special Documenta, China National Convention Center, Beijing, China
Thirty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Fairy Tales: Selections from the MaGMA’s collection, Opera Gallery, Singapore

2009
Another Scene. ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai, China
In the mood for paper, F2 Gallery, Beijing, China
53rd Venice Biennale, Chinese Pavillon, Venice, Italy
Art Basel Miami Beach. Convention Center, Miami, USA.
Acquavella Galleries, New York, USA
Suzhou Museum, China

2008
China macht Druck – Moderne chinesische Druckgrafik. Staedtische Galerie Bietigheim, Germany

Cina contemporanea – Arte fra Identita e Transformazione. Palazzo delle Espozioni, Rome, Italy

Crouching Paper, Hidden Dragon. F2 Gallery, Beijing, China

The olymp – Works on Paper, Galerie Burkhard Eikelmann, Duesseldorf, Germany

Writing on the Wall: Chinese New Realism and Avant-garde in the 80s and 90s, Groninger Museum, Groningen, NL

Made in China – Print Art Part 2. Art China Gallery, Hamburg, Germany

The revolution continues: New Chinese Art. New Saatchi Gallery, London, UK

Selected. ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai, China

2007
Thermocline of Art – New Asian Waves, ZKM (Center for Art and Media), Karlsruhe, Germany
ShanghART at Art’38 Basel, Art Fair, Switzerland
Individual Positions 1, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai, China
Time Difference, Initial Access, Wolverhampton, UK
Floating – A New Generation of Art in China, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
China Now. Cobra Museum, Amstelveen, Netherlands

2006
Zhou Chunya, Zeng Fanzhi and Ji Dachun, LONGRUN ART Beijing China

2005
Majong, Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
China, contemporary painting, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio, Bologna, Italy

2004
Exhibition of Nominate for Art Documentation, Art Gallery of Hubei Academy of Art, China

2003
Left Hand, Right Hand – A Sino-German Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Beijing 798 Space, Beijing, China ; Invitational Gallery Exhibition, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai

2002
Paris-Pekin, Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris
The First Triennial of Chinese Arts, Guangzhou Art Museum, Guangzhou
Korean and Chinese painting – 2002 New Expression, Seoul Arts Center, Korea

2001
Towards a New Image, Twenty years of Chinese Contemporary Painting, National Art Museum, Beijing; Shanghai Art Museum; Guangzhou Art Museum; Modem Art Museum, Chengdu, China

2000
Futuro Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, The Contemporary Art Center of Macau (CACOM), Macau

1998
It Is Me, Forbidden City, Beijing, China

1997
8+8–1, Hong Kong, London, Hamburg
Question Marks, Singapore Art Museum Singapore

1996
China!, Touring Exhibition, Germany, Austria, Denmark, Poland (until 1998)
Reality, Present and Future, International Art Palace, Beijing, China

1995
Avant gardes Artistiques Xineses, Santa Monica Art Centre Barcelona, Spain
Beyond Ideology: New Art from China, Der Haus der Kulture das Welt Hamburg, Germany

1994
Exhibition of Works Selected by Art Critics, China Art Gallery Beijing, China

1993
China’s New Art Post- 1989, Touring Exhibition, Hong Kong, Sidney (until 1997)

1992
Guangzhou Biennal – Oil Painting of the Nineties, Guangzhou Convention Centre, China

1991
Chinese Oil Painting for Fifty Years, International Exhibition Center, Beijing, China