Crossing Borders: Yan Zhenduo's Art Exhibition

Exhibition Info

Exhibition Period　　　10 June 2023 – 15 October 2023

Exhibition Venue　　　1st Floor Exhibition Hall

Chief Director　　　Du Pengfei

Academic Director　　　Xu Hong

Curator　　　Tai Wuqi

Project Coordination　　　Wang Chenya　Sun Yiwei　Xie Xiaoxia

Curatorial Assistant　　　Ge Xiuzhi

Visual Supervisior　　　Wang Peng

Exhibition and Visual Design　　　　　Guo Bin

Exhibition Team　　　Sun Yiwei　Guo Bin　Xie Xiaoxia　Liao Yang　Zhang Yifan　An Su

Translation　　　Xu Xiaofan

Publicity Team　　　 Li Zhe　Liu Yaomeng　Zhou Xinxin　Xiao Fei　Zhang Hanxu

Education Programs　　　Zhang Ming　Zhou Ying　Wang Wenhui　Zhang Ruiqi

Administration Affair　　　Zhang Jun　Ma Yanyan

Host　　　Tsinghua University Art Museum

Supported by　　　National Art Museum of China
　　　Beijing Fine Art Academy
　　　China Oil Painting Society
　　　National Museum of Modern Chinese Literature
　　　Forbidden City Concert Hall

Exhibition Profile

This exhibition presents more than 90 works of Mr. Yan Zhenduo's nearly 70 years of creation, encompassing various styles such as realism, representation, and abstraction, and he uses materials such as ink on paper, oil painting, rock pigments, and more. "Crossing Borders" also embodies a spirit that aligns with Yan's own statement: "My creative language derives from the spirituality of nature, and my creative emotions stem from my self-awareness of life. There is no need for definitions or immediate confirmations."

Artist Profile

Yan Zhenduo (1940-) is one of the representative artists who pursued modern style and explored individual expression in art since the New Period. His painting style is lyrical and masculinity. He is good at expressing people's hearts throbbing to nature in the contrast of large plane colors. He pays attention to the fluid of color blocks, dots, and lines, and does not give up the delicacy of details in the great relationship of color rhythm. Among contemporary painters, what is most noteworthy about him is the various structural changes and the processing of points, lines, and surfaces hidden in the picture, which fully demonstrates the artist's balance and breakthrough based on visual laws in the relationship between abstraction and image, narrative and lyric, form and color, line rhythm and modeling space.