China Through the Ink
Xu Hang: A Chinese New Ink artist, art media professional and curator. Born in 1976 at Xiaoxian, Anhui Province, China and graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Art School of Anhui University in 1996. In 2001 he studied at the Central Academy of Fine Arts and studied contemporary photography. In 2003, studied at the Beijing Academy of Painting and Beijing University of Technology.
Exhibiton: China Through the Ink, Xu Hang New York Exhibition
Artists: Xu Hang
Organizer: Artosino, The China Press
Co-Organizer: North America Photography Association, Internation Young Artist Federaion, America East West Associates Inc.
Curator: Rick Chang
Art Director: Pei Xiaoping
Exhibition Design: Shirong Gu
Date: 06/07/2018 - 06/12/2018
Location: Artosino Gallery 265 W 37th St FL 16, New York, NY 10018
Currently Xu Hang is the Art Director of the Beijing Cultural Development Foundation, a selected research associate at the Wu Guanzhong Art Center of Tsinghua University, and the Asian Institute of Art in Chicago; He is also an executive director of China Gongbi Painting Association, and a member of the Chinese National Arts and Crafts Society. During 2013, he had a Solo Exhibitions at the Today Art Museum in Beijing, the Harmony Garden in the Summer Palace, The Yongjiang Inlet Art Museum in Beijing Liulichang, and Beijing National Aquatics Center (Water Cube). A seminar between Chinese and American artists at the Asian Institute of Art in Chicago: Xu Hang / Tony Philippe; Seminar at Galleri Den Kinesiske Eske in Oslo, Norway: Xu Hang / Hanna Høiness; Seminar and Double Solo Exhibition at 798 Art District of Beijing: Xu Hang / Linda Budan.
He has been long served as Chief Editor of the “Cultural Monthly” by the Chinese Culture Media Group of the Ministry of Culture; Director of the Editorial Department of the “Chinese Painting and Calligraphy” by the Economic Daily Newspaper Group; and Chief Editor of “Art Life Express” by the Jilin Daily Newspaper Group.
Urban young men and women in China
Purple Era
People in Reality
Beijing Beijing
Since 2003, he has planned “Shadows and Reality - Artists, Films, and Works of Contemporary Art” at the China National Museum of Art and has planned the Sino-French Design Summit Forum for Sino-French Cultural Year in the Central Academy of Fine Arts, and has planned “2017 In Beijing New Year's New Painting Concert in the Poly Theatre in Beijing and has planned "Beijing New Year Art Exhibition" and other large-scale art activities in the Beijing Summer Palace, Water Cube.
After more than ten years of exploration, he has grown up in maturity. He focused on the core values of ink-and-wash figure art, grasped the key issues in the transformation of ink painting, and responded to contemporary ink-ink issues with his own exploration and practical experience. Over the years, Xu Hang has insisted on depicting characters almost every day. His source of inspiration is the real people around him. Most of them are ordinary people who are visible in any city in China and the real events that take place around them. He took a step forward in the transformation, simplicity, and color of ink paintings, and his brushwork was full of ink and fun. His picture attracted viewers to stop watching and then reach the audience with infectious content.
In addition, Xu Hang also painted the Buddha. The Buddha he painted is different from most modern Chinese Buddha paintings. The Buddha sitting or standing in his painting is a symbolic image. The lines are simple and rough, leaving no room for details. This is Xu Hang’s intention: to observe and perceive the pen and ink itself until it resonates. Through it, Xu Hang will inject passionate and lively humanity into his works.
His landscape paintings follow the traditional composition and method, which integrates more components, symbolizes the factors, and has a simpler structure and more use of pens. Xu Hang’s efforts demonstrated the new road of ink painting.
