Zen Encounters in Art
Artists: Chen Qi, Yang Maoyuan, Huang Jing, Li Xin

Through thousands of years of Chinese art, few accomplished a true Zen approach to painting like Bada Shanren in Ming Dynasty. His fish were both inspiring and absurd. His birds soared right through the heavens into our modern consciousness. How many artists are there today who can follow in his footsteps and revitalize the ancient idea of Zen?

Chuan Men
ASAP (Austro Sino Arts Program)project

The works exhibited in "chuan men" are possible only in present-day China. It is in China, where the phenomena shown in the works are happening now. Momentary appearances can be historical records, which are sincere and precious. Their mode of creation carries a strong improvisational feature: Facing brand-new Chinese experiences, the foreign artists feel strange, curious and excited. They react rapidly with their creation, revealing their instinct spontaneously, which restores the primitive nature of artistic creation in a sense.

Routine Reveries-Summer Curatorial Note II

Artists: Huang Kai , Liu Ruizhao, Yuan Jia, Yu Ying, Su Rui ,Feng Ying,Wen Yue.
Curator: Tony Chang
2011.9.3-10.17
The curatorial concept behind Routine Reveries is an investigation into the ways that artists enter into their own states of "absentmindedness": how they talk to themselves and hone their preferred crafts. The vagrant who plays with monkeys (Su Rui), the deer head meditating in an absurd, surreal space (Feng Ying), the mischievous, amnesiac child (Huang Kai)¡­ they do not see the turmoil around them as they construct their own unique artistic worlds.

Cold Blood -Summer Curatorial Notes

Artists: Liang Yankang, Li Xin, Li Sa, Liu Ke, Tao Qiaoli, Zhu Peihong
Curator: Tony Chang
2011.7.23-9.02

My expedition to inspect the artistic environment of GuangdongProvince began with a list of artists recommended to me by Wang Huangsheng, Director of the Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts. Under the blazing hot weather of June, I went to the Guangzhou Line Three Art Zone, where the artists lived mixed together among the local residents. The sounds of the water pump rose through the air here and there, and outside the window you could hear the chaotic calls of children running through the streets....

Femininity in Contemporary Art

Artists:Folk Artist Ku Shulan(1920-2004) & Contemporary Artists Xie Zhongxia,Yang Jing, Yang Dazhi, Liu Ruizhao, Zhou Qinshan, Zhou Chunyan, Lou Hong etc.
Curator: Tony Chang

The PINK exhibition pays attention to the exploration of contemporary art practice on feminist consciousness. The artists were born from 1960s to 1980s. Works of their female subjects express their strong personal view, full of contemporary sensitivity. Divided into three levels such as Physical Consciousness, Fairy Tales & Dolls Fantasy, and Poetic Aesthetics, according to the subject matters, these works reveal women's spiritual direction in today's social and cultural changes and the new features of aesthetics.

Soul of the Land II
The Abstract Aesthetics of Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Amelie Gallery, 2011.4.9-5.31
Artists: Huang Jing, Xie Sen, Yu Chengyou, Li Xin, Ling Junwu, Ralph Kiggell (UK)
Curator: Tony Chang

As an extension of a series of exhibitions researching contemporary landscape paintings, Soul of the Land II presents the works of artists Huang Jing, Xie Sen, Yu Chengyou, Li Xin and Ling Junwu etc., who have been working in landscape themes for a long time. The vast, rolling landscape and the myriad lakes, mountains and rivers have been affecting the artists' personalities, but their works have all transcended realism to be filled with a subjective and expressive spirit. Their differing methods embody the abstract aesthetics of visual language.

2011 New Year’s Fine Art Print Festival

Organizer: www.ChinaPrintArt.cn
Partner: Shin Kong Place
Co-organizer: Amelie Gallery, Beijing
Special Thanks to: Faculty of Printmaking Dept., Central Academy of Fine Art
Art Paper Provider: Canson
Time: Jan 22nd –Feb. 28th, 2011
Venue: Shin Kong Event Hall (5th floor of Shin Kong Place, No.87, Jianguo Road, Chao Yang District, Beijing)

Notations of Time is a massive turning point in Chen Qi's creative thinking, a shift from the consideration of formless concepts within tangible things towards the probing of timeless, formless concepts to reach a concrete, physical form. 'Time' is an eternal, abstract, even indescribable thing, and from the perspective and methods of artistic expression, it perhaps stands as a challenge. Chen Qi's wisdom here is in that he approaches it from the traces of time, and uses his signature refinement and fastidiousness in thought and technique, combined with modern visual expression and image forms to materialize 'time' as artistic objects and images, which are presented comprehensively in the form of books, prints, woodcarvings and video, turning time into something tangible, something visible, and more importantly, something that can be experienced and pondered. -By Wang Huangsheng, Director, Art Museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts

Striking the Mountain to Shock the Tiger
An Exhibition Surveying the Creative Ecosystem for Contemporary Chinese Young Artist Groups
August 21st-Octorber 13th, 2010
Curator: Tony Chang

For each generation of artists, the social environment in which they live and create has a profound effect on the development of their art. The curatorial concept behind Striking the Mountain to Shock the Tiger is sociological, using interviews and surveys of nearly one hundred artists born in the 1970s and 80s to observe the living and creative conditions of young artists and the potential effects of the current art ecosystem on future changes in art and the development of artists. Using the creative subject key words gleaned from the surveys as a core set of coordinates, Striking the Mountain to Shock the Tiger seeks out a spiritual anchor in the flourishing, diverse practices of cutting-edge art. The artistic styles of the various participant artists vary widely, but all are brimming with talent and personality. The document segment of this exhibition consists of the artists stories of how they make a living, highlighting the struggle and perseverance involved in their delicate walk between art and existence.

Soul of the Land
The Meditative Aesthetics of Contemporary Chinese Landscape Painting

Amelie Gallery, 2010.7.03-8.21, Opening: July.3rd, 15:00pm
Artists: Wang Keju, Bai Yuping, Ren Chuanwen, Sun Gang, Hong Dan and Zhang Yu
Curator: Tony Chang

Soul of the Land focuses on the important Chinese landscape artists Wang Keju, Bai Yuping, Ren Chuanwen, Sun Gang and young artists Hong Dan and Zhang Yu. In terms of both painterliness and creative concepts, they have made innovative contributions to the ancient tradition of landscape painting. The goal of the exhibition is to explore the developmental trends of contemporary landscape painting, to analyze individual artists and their cultural inheritance to reveal the new aesthetic direction being shaped by China's current reality and humanist landscapes...

163 Years of Obsession-Self Awareness and the Literati Spirit
Artists:Duan Zhengqu, Zhu Jin, Fan Bo, Wang Qing, Ma Ke, and Liu Ruizhao

After socialist realism and beginning with the 85 New Wave, contemporary figurative painting bore the weight of social critique and historical rethinking. Fang Lijun's shaved heads and Yue Minjun's smiling faces spoke of an uncooperative attitude towards mainstream ideology; while Zhang Xiaogang's old portrait photo-style figures looked back listlessly on history. While the individuals in those paintings were portrayed as symbolic masks of the group spirit of intellectuals in a certain time period, the artists in 163 Years of Obsession, Duan Zhengqu, Zhu Jin, Fan Bo, Wang Qing, Ma Ke, and Liu Ruizhao discarded with direct representations of the complex surfaces of social events, and turned their gazes upon themselves. Stretching from the 1950s to the 1980s, these artists, so passionately obsessed with painting, all separately traced out awareness of themselves in brushstrokes that are full of spiritual sensitivity, probing along the lonely path of human dignity...

HuTong Play-Huang Kai Solo Show
2010.01.23~03.15
Celebrating the 3rd Anniversary of Chinese New Year Fine Art Print Festival
Huang Kai carries on the traditions of Chinese panel comics, from the famous pre-revolution comic book, The Adventures of Sanmao the Orphan, the comic drawings of Feng Zikai and on to the early revolution period. With mischief and playfulness, he explores the disparity between memory and reality. His "reminiscences on childhood" mix bitter sadness with sweet joy...

Notes on Fishing-Paintings & Sculpture in 2006-2009
Liu RuiZhao Solo Exhibition
Amelie Gallery, Beijing, Curator: Tony Chang

You love fishing. You once told me that the fish and the mythical dragon are very much alike -swim through waters of untold depths in complete silence. You spend much of your free time refining your fishing techniques, and working on strange problems such as how to release a fish after catching it and how to tell its age from its scales. That is why I proposed Notes on Fishing as an art project. I hoped that it would allow you to bring together your creative experiments and spiritual growth from the past few years¡­

Grace of Printmaking
Printmaking Art from Central Academy of Fine Arts & National Taiwan University of Arts
May 24th-June 12th, 2009
Official Website: www.ChinaPrintArt.cn

In simultaneity with China National Art Museum's two major printmaking art events in May of 2009 (the 9th National Chinese Lithography, Etching & Silkscreen Exhibition and Exhibition of Art Works by Taiwan Artist Liao ShiouPing), Grace of Printmaking is open in Amelie Gallery Beijing and Museum of National Taiwan University of Arts, bringing print artists together from Central Academy of Fine Arts & National Taiwan University of Arts, this is the first official exchange program for the two sister academies...

No Fun without You- Contemporary Artists Frozen in Place
Artists: Liu RuiZhao, Huang Kai,Wang YanBin, Zhang Ying, Cheng QinTao, Wang XiaoOu
2009.3.21~5.10

As the theme of this exhibition, No Fun without You has two layers of meanings. First, the participating artists create playful and joyful scenes: Liu Ruizhao's youths are in a state of absent-mindedness, and are painted with rich, exaggerated color in dramatic lighting. Huang Kai's paintings recall the childhood playmates in the old, demolished Hutong (alleyways). Wang Yanbin depicts naughty chafferers in grey robes and red shoes who are forcing a crane to drink Coca Cola.... This group of young and vigorous artists come together to present a lively and entertaining party, adding humor and fun into the contemporary art scene...

A New Mark in Chinese Print Art-
Survey on the Innovation of Chinese Contemporary Printmaking
2009.3.28~5.13
Venue: OCT Art & Design, ShenZhen
Curator:Tony Chang

A New Mark in Chinese Print Art-Traversing the Labyrinth of the Contemporary Spirit, an academic exhibition surveying the innovation of Chinese contemporary printmaking takes place in OCT Art & Design, a Museum at the fore front of contemporary visual culture in Shenzhen until May 13th, 2009. More than one hundred new works by artists from China's leading fine arts academies are on show. Born in the '70's and '80's, these artists are casting off the restraints of conventional printmaking language as they examine contemporary issues. Artistic Director of Amelie Gallery, Mr. Tony Chang was invited as the chief curator.

Enchanting Landscapes
+Public Printmaking & 8 Printmakers' New Year Cards Exhibition
Artists: Song Yuanwen,ChenQi,He Kun,Gordon Mortensen(US), Ralph Kiggell (UK) etc.

Jan 10th-March 6th, 2009
Amelie Gallery brings you a New Year's treat in the form of beautiful, romantic landscape prints. From China's early modern print masters to the international contemporary academics, through Southeast Asia and North America, this is a journey through the mental landscape that transcends time and space. The enchanting landscapes, lush scenery and acute perceptions of the artists come together here in the art of print...