Xia FuNing

Chinese Contemporary Art by Xia FuNing - Outward

2016

Description: Xia Funing(B.1962) The passage of life 80 x 110 oil on paper , framed hand signed on the reverse side Dated 2021 Xia FuNing was born on 09/01/ 1962 in Nanjing, Jiangsu province. In 1981, he studied in the department of Fine art of Su-Zhou university. He was once a professor in the Department of Fine Arts in 1985 in Tianjin Polytechnic University. Since 2020 , he has been invited specially as postgraduate tutor in the Department of Fine-arts of Nanjing normal university, and currently lives and works in Song Zhuang Art Colony, Beijing, China. Zhuangzi et Laozi’s philosophy has exercised a great influence on Xia’s artworks. In his oriental vision, Xia realized that “Qi (the character signi es the original reality, breath of life), the major component of life, is of great signi cance in painting. Chinese people adopt the phrase “Qi-Xi (signifying breath, xi means the process of breathing) to perceive the intrinsic aspect of art in a more vivid and essential manner, displaying the origin and status of object existence. In his works, the artist arranges the daily intimate surroundings in “Qi-Xi(breathing) ”by means of his unique visual logic, surpasses the transient and restricted nature, retrieves the poetic and spiritual feature of their existence origin, thus attaining freedom and eternity. His solo shows has staged at Yushan Contemporary Art Museum, Jiang Su , China (2018); 5 Art Center, 5 Art Center, Beijing, China (2014); Gallery Elements, Suzhou, China(2014); National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China( 2013). Major group exhibitions include: “ Contemporary Burgeoning of Oriental Heritage”Reality space, Beijing, China (2016); “New Enlightenment” cross-border exhiinitionn and reading, traditional arts gallery, Nanjing, Jiangsu , China (2016); “Sublimation” contemporary oil painting sketching...

Oil on paper Xia Fu-Ning is a Chinese artist born in 1962 in Nanjing. He was a professor in the Department of Fine Arts during the 1980s at Tianjin Polytechnic University. He curren...

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Unique oil painting on hand made paper, framed and ready to hang. Size of 71 x 50 cm is that of the artwork itself, excluding the frame.