Sanqian | Contemporary Artist: Artworks & Biography

Sanqian

China
Painter

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The creator must draw on the depths of himself, of his inner world and his memories, the matter of his works.

The Chinese artist San Qian found himself immersed into Shanghai's artistic world and the practice of ink painting from a very early age. Trained in traditional painting by Master Xu Zihe, he consolidated his approach throughout the 1980s and participated in the International Painting Exhibition in Japan in Kyoto in 1989. He confirmed his position as an emerging young talent in 1993 at his first personal exhibition in Duoyun Xuan in Shanghai. Always in a different style, sometimes very expressive, sometimes more allusive or symbolic, the artist depicts for us a splendid world with bright or fainter colours, sometimes the natural world, sometimes the spiritual cosmos, where the imaginary, illusion and the real attempt to cross paths.

Deeply passionated and educated, the artist is inspired in his work by the Buddhist culture and philosophy. From that, he draws upon a double personality and expression: at the same time, meditative, secret and hot-headed, ill-tempered. In each of them, a window remains open on the world. Sensitive, wise and happy, San Qian pays particular attention to the "smell" that comes from the paint when creating. His ink painting with a traditional appearance therefore mixes the most paradoxical sensations: it is at the same time thick and fluid, dense and thin, heavy and evanescent, in order to re-transcribe the most secret, the most buried emotions, the movement of water, the silhouette of mountains, the expression of men, the colour of flowers and birds.

France :
- - Paris 4 Ile Saint Louis

2015
Participation in the 18th Shanghai International Arts Expo
Shanghai, China
1993
First personal exhibition at the Duoyun Xuan Art Shop
Shanghai, China
1979
Trains as an ink painter with Master Xu Zihe
Shanghai, China
1952
Birth
Shanghai, China