Excellent Chinese Oil Painting Artist Fang Li-jun Arts Review

As one of important representatives the new artistic trend of China after 89s, Artist Fang Li-jun has created an unique mode of saying together with other artists in this trend, that is Cynical Realism, among them, the "Bald Popi" image created by Fang Li-jun in his series of oil painting works created since 1988, has become a type of classic language symbols, which marked a type of survived feeling of humdrum mood and Popi humor which were prevailing at the late 80's and half of early 90's in China, more broadly, it marked thehumanistic and psychological feelings of contemporary people broadly.

Perhaps, both the East and West, contemporary intellectuals all have become a bit more Popi, because, as we faced to in the world today, we felt helpless and dismayed more and more, and we are no longer done as people in Franz Kafka and Jiekemeidi time, who can through revealing the absurd existence to give vent to their inner depression when feel the oppression come from the environment, and marked their own independent will. Today we almost can not distinguish the limits between us with the environment, the independence we considered, maybe just a result of a certain type of environment, we laugh at the world, perhaps just laugh at ourselves, then we have no other choice but to become a Popi..

Artist Fang Li-jun Arts Review:

Mr. Fang Li-jun, who was born in December 4, 1963 in Handan city, Hebei province, China;

In 1980 graduated from Handan School for Children of Railway Workers;In 1983 graduated at the Ceramic Fine Arts Department at Hebei School ofLight Industry;In 1989 graduated at the Print Department at the Central Academy of Fine Arts; In 2004 was employed as a visiting professor by the Fine Arts Institute at Jilin Art Academy

Now Mr. Fang Li-jun is living in Beijing and acted as a professional artist.

Main Participated Exhibitions:

1984: The 6th National Art Show (Guangzhou);

1989: China Modern Art Show (China Art Gallery, Beijing);

1992: China New Art Show
1992: China Avant-Garde Art Show;

1995: Our Century (Ludwig Museum, German)

1996: Talk with China (Ludwig Forum, AACHEN German)

2001: New Image of Modern Painting

2002: Guangzhou Modern Art Show Triennial (Guangdong Art Gallery, Guangzhou)

2003: Alors, La Chine (Pompidou Center, Paris)

2003: An Open Times (China Art Gallery, Beijing)

2005: New Work/New Acquisitions (MOMA, New York)

2007: China-Facing Reality? Kunst Stiftung Ludwig (Modern Museum, Vienna)

2007: Cina XXI secolo. Arte fra identità e trasformazione?the Palazzo delle Esposizionz (Rome)

2007: China Modern Art Literature Show (Beijing)

2007: Athens - Modern Art from China Show (Greece National Modern Art Center, Athens)

2007: Facing China (Akureyri Gallery, Iceland)

2007: Half-Life of a Dream: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Logan Collection (San Francisco Modern Art Gallery, U.S.A.)

2007: Berlin Asian Art Museum Show (Berlin Asian Art Museum, German)

2008: Dreams - 2008 Asian Art Biennial (Guan'du Art Gallery at State Taipei Art University, Taipei)

2008: Avant-Garde China - China Modern Art in Twenty Years (State International Art Gallery, Osaka Japan).