'Jewel No 4' 2008

Chen Fei

Original oil on canvas
120 ⨯ 150 ⨯ 5 cm
ConditionVery good
€ 6.000

Willem Kerseboom Gallery

• About the artwork
  Chen Fei,(China,72)
  Born in Guangdong , China.
  He studied at Guangdong Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou.
  1988
  He graduated with a Master's degree in Art ( Oil Painting Department )
  
  oil on canvas , 120x150 cm
  2008
  published in the catalogue 'Chen Fei, Luo Hui Cruel Delights' on page 17
  Born in Guangdong, China in 1972, Chen Fei abandoned his hometown in the Pearl River Delta – often known as the experimental laboratory of ‘Reform and Opening’ and the industrial hub of China, at the forefront region of its economic development – and came to Beijing to pursue his artistic career. His works reveal an artist struck by the impact of globalisation and the rapid growth of wealth in China’s new market economy. In particular, his works of fleshy human-like ‘blobs’ disintegrating under the weight of their greed and consumer desire, reveal his response to the social inequity and wealth disparities in this newly aspirational society.
  
  Selected exhibitions:
  2011 “Future Pass. From Asia to the World”, collateral event of the 54th Venice Biennale, Palazzo Mangilli-Valmarana, Venice
  2009 “Enliven-In Between Realities and Fiction”, Animamix Biennial, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai; Today Art Museum, Beijing; Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
  “Visual Attract & Attack”, Animamix Biennial, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taipei
  2008 3rd Nanjing Triennial, Nanjing
  2007 “Red Hot: Contemporary Asian Art Rising”, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
  2005 “Mahjong Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg”, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern
• About the artist

  Chen Fei, born in 1972 in Guangdong, China, is a contemporary artist whose work exposes the tensions between globalization, consumerism, and social inequality in China’s new market economy. He studied at the Guangdong Academy of Fine Arts in Guangzhou and received a master’s degree in art, specializing in oil painting, in 1988.

  In the early years of his career, Chen Fei left his native Pearl River Delta—an epicenter of China’s economic reform and industrialization—and settled in Beijing. His art reflects the profound transformations that Chinese society has undergone due to rapid economic growth and the rise of a consumer-oriented culture.

  His paintings often depict grotesque, fleshy humanoid figures disintegrating under the burden of their own greed and materialism, exposing the excesses and inequalities of contemporary China.

  With his confrontational and expressive style, Chen Fei remains an influential voice in Chinese contemporary art, critically examining the tensions of a changing society.

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