Qi Baicheng

ARTIST BIO

(b. 1976, CHINA)

 

Qi Baicheng has been passionate about art ever since he was a child. While originally influenced by modern European expressionists such as Wilhelm de Kooning and Anslem Kiefer, Qi found that he had to create his own style of painting, as the western approach was not enough for him to portray his personal vision of the world.

 

The uniqueness of Qi’s work displays itself most obviously in his thematic choices and the artistic techniques he employs in their expression. While we see a rise in the painting of hands in contemporary Chinese contemporary art, no other artist commit to the subject as fully as Qi does. They are for him, rich in symbolic meaning for they are the means by which he seeks to investigate broader social issues. His seas of hands illustrate the image of Chinese masses, which coupled with the absence of human faces, convey a sense of oppressive anonymity.

 

Borrowing from the language of pop art he does away with much of the brushwork, texture and colour characteristics of traditional oil painting, while retaining much of its commitment to realism, making use of a flat, even monochromatic style. In arranging his compositions, Qi also sidesteps traditional art’s preoccupation with specific, set scene, opting instead for the symbolism inherent in repetition and thus successfully creates a vision one cannot hope to find in reality, constructing as he does so a unique sort of mindscape.

 

Qi’s work are at once most undeniably modern, but also classical, and heavily conceptual. His seamless synthesis of the elements of reality and dreaming, of abstract and concrete, of realism and of expressionism provides a fresh kind of experience to the world of contemporary Chinese art. 

 

EDUCATION

Tianjin Academy of Fine Art, China, 1998

Central Academy of Art College of Urban Design, China, 2003

Oil Painting Master classes, China Academy of Art, 2006

 

EXHIBITIONS

SOLO EXHIBITION

2015

“The Lost Paradise”, Lingxi Space, Beijing, CHINA

2011 "Frenetic World" Solo exhibition, Wellington Gallery, HONG KONG

GROUP EXHIBITION

2017

Art Stage Singapore 2017, Wellington Gallery, Singapore

2015

Exploring Partner In The Art World, Manet Gallery, Beijing, CHINA
“Gewu Zhiwu” the Era of Post-Industrial Civilization Joint Exhibition,
Tangshan O Space Gallery, Tangshan, CHINA
“Living in Songzhuang” Contemporary Art Exhibition, Beijing, CHINA

2011

“Your World” The Second Contemporary Art of Weibo Exhibition, Beijing, CHINA
We 1994-2013, The 20th Anniversary Collective Exhibition of China Songzhuang Artists, Beijing, CHINA

2010

“Youth & We”, Wellington Gallery, HONG KONG
Hong Kong Art Walk, Wellington Gallery, HONG KONG

2009

Hong Kong Art Walk, Wellington Gallery, HONG KONG

2008

“Nord Art” Contemporary Art Exhibition, Kunst in der Carlshütte GmbH, Germany Museum, GERMANY

2007

“Red Hot - Asian Art Today from the Chaney Family Collection”, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, U.S.A.
“Living in Songzhuang” Contemporary Art Exhibition, Beijing, CHINA
“Choice and Inclusive”, Sentinel Gallery, CHINA

2006

“Consumption Time No.1 Art Exhibition”, Sart Gallery, Beijing, CHINA

2003

“Memorial • Tap”, Yan Huang Art Museum, Beijing, CHINA

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Asian Art News, Cover, vol. 21, No. 2, Mar/Apr 2011 

Findlay, Ian: "Reaching for the Heavens", Asian Art News, vol. 21, No. 2, Mar/Apr 2011, p.68 - p.72

 

COLLECTIONS

Wellington Gallery, HONG KONG

Works held in private collections in SWITZERLAND, NETHERLAND, TURKEY, USA, SINGAPORE and HONG KONG

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