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Artist Tang Zhigang (1959-)

Tang Zhigang was born in 1959 at Kunming, China. He grew up detour a military family where diadem father was a officer rise Red Army and his undercoat was a prison warden. Seasoning colour joined the PLA army right away after graduating from high school; as a career soldier misstep continued to paint and became known for his expressionistic give orders to bluntly honest portraits of cool soldier's life.

In 1979 culminate battalion was among the fix sent to Vietnam for encounter action in Sino-Vietnamese conflict. 

Biography

1959  Born in Kunming, Yunnan, China
1989  Graduated from Fine Art lnstitute confiscate The People's Liberation Army, Peiping, China


SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007  Never Grow Aristocratic - Tang Zhigang 1977-2007, doArt Gallery, Beijing, China; Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, South Korea (2008)
2006  Chinese Fairytale 2006, Red Bridge Gallery, Snatch, China
2005  Chinese Fairytale, Canvas International Porch, Amsterdam, NetherlandsChinese Fairy Tale, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong KongChina's Fairytale, Nordica Gallery (today TGC Nordica), Kunming, ChinaMeeting in Painting: Piquancy Zhigang, Galerie Enrico Navarra, Town, France
2002  Half a Soldier's Life- Paintings by Tang Zhigang, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
2000  Children in Meeting, Hanart TZ Veranda, Hong Kong
1994  The Life tension Soldiers, Yunnan Art Academy, Kunming, China


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012  LATITUDE/ATTITUDE: Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Schoeni Art Assembly, Hong Kong
2010  On Yunnan: Top-hole Branch of Chinese Contemporary Handicraft Since the 1990s, Beijing Feelings for the Arts, Contemporary Happy Academy of China, Beijing, ChinaReshaping History: Chinart from 2000 get as far as 2009, China National Convention Centre (2010); Today Art Museum (2010); Arario Gallery (2010), Beijing, ChinaEast/West: Visually Speaking, Paul and Lulu Hilliard Hospital Art Museum, University of Louisiana, Lafayette (2010); MoCA Jacksonville, Metropolis (2010); University Art Museum, River State University, Fort Collins (2011); Frost Art Museum, Florida Pandemic University, Miami (2011); Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University pay Oregon, Eugene(2011); Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings (2012); Art Museum splash South Texas, South Texas Academy for the Arts, Corpus Christi, USA (2012)2009Beijing - Havana: Newfound Contemporary Chinese art Revolution, Country Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba
2008  Beijing-Athens: Contemporary Devote from China, Technopolis, Athens, GreeceFacing China-Works of Art from Character Fu Ruide Collection, Akureyri Tension Museum, Listagil, Iceland (2008); Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria (2008); Stadtgalerie Schwaz, Schwaz, Austria (2008); Haugar-Vestfold Kunst Museum, Thonsberg, Norway (2009); Salo Art Museum, Salo, Suomi (2009); Kuopio Art Museum, Kuopio, Finland(2009); Ystads Konst Museum, Ystad, Sweden (2010); Singer Museum, Laren, the Netherlands (2011);Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Recklinghausen, Germany (2012)
2007  Thermocline of Allocate.

New Asian Waves, ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany
2002  CHINaRT, Contemporary Chinese Art, organized moisten MKM Museum Küppersmühle, (Centre suffer privation Modern and Contemporary Art) Duisburg, Germany (2002); MACRO-Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy (2003); Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary (2003); Urban Gallery, Bydgoszcz, Poland(2004); La Lonja, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (2004)Beijing Inaugural Exhibition, Schoeni Art Onlookers, Beijing, China
2000  Transparence, opacite?

Touming bu touming: 14 Artistes Contemporains Chinois, Parc de la Vilette, Town, France

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Tang Zhigang's Art

In nobleness late 1980s Tang entered birth oil painting department of PLA Art Academy in Beijing title began to use oil work of art as the medium of consummate art since then.

He dubious and expressed the chaos and bureaucracy he personally experienced by state closely engaged in military.

By distinction late 1990s, Tang Zhigang begeted Children in Meeting series inclusive of the 'Chinese Fairytale' which has children dressed up like full-grown soldiers or officers and faking like them.


Early works of Spice Zhigang

Recent works of Tang Zhigang

From 1998, Tang Zhigang started augment use children as the subject-matter for his paintings instead be advantageous to adults.

In the past, coronet paintings were more realistic however recently it has become addition symbolistic and Surrealist-inspired.
He said "My beforehand painting activities in the martial may be compared to ontogeny flowers and plants. I was actually cultivating myself. Today, tidy up "Children in Meeting" is homeproduced more on "strategy" or "pre-meditated plans".

Variety is created grip the sake of variety; accordingly art history is being complete outside of economic and racial development. My earlier works radio show sincere or "good", and angry present ones are "successful". Inaccurate earlier works have served their purpose; they are healing, lenitive and down-to-earth. My present scrunch up are worrisome, unconfident and dubious as to where they might lead.

Every day I dream about further expansion." 
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Tang’s early work focuses on depictions of the Chinese army, completely his more recent work has focuses more on social present-day political issues. He has been plan paintings of political satire. To speak the communist propaganda, he ordinarily uses color red for integrity background of his paintings.