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Pan De Hai - Represented by Yang Gallery
( China, 1956 - present )
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Artist: Pan De Hai ( China, 1956 - present ) -
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Main Category: Painting
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Genres: Contemporary Asian Art
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Biography: Pan Dehai was born in 1956 in Si Ping City, Jilin Province, China. He graduated from the Fine Art Department of the Northeast Normal University in Changchun, Jilin Province in 1982.
Pan’s paintings have been included in numerous exhibitions throughout Asia. Such shows include the 1988 and 1989 “China Contemporary Art Exhibition” in Beijing, the “Annual Exhibition of Oil Painting” in the Chinese History and military Museum in 1996, Beijing and the “Reality, Today and Tomorrow” exhibition at the International Art gallery, Beijing in 1991. Since the 1990’s, Pan has gained international attention through several exhibitions such as the “2000 Art Exhibition” held in France (2000), the “Asian Contemporary Art Exhibition” held in London (2000) and “Girls and Boys” held at the Soobin Art Gallery, Singapore (2001). Pan also won a prize at the 7th National Fine Arts Exhibition held at the National Art Museum, Beijing (1989).
Although Pang Dehai’s paintings feature cherubic figures, they manage to elude the grim label of “cute” art. Instead, the paintings exhibit a sinister humor brought about by the serial pixilation that serves and paintings’ building blocks. This repetitive pattern is often echoed in the composition itself. The inflated figures occupy the canvas like some highly disciplined cloned army. Pang said “I want to focus on the subject of obesity, a common phenomenon in modern society and a product of modernization. Obesity is the most obvious embodiment of the problems of urban living……Obesity is aggressive and possessive. It comes from increasing gluttony. Obesity is a most vivid and symbolic state.”
Pang’s choice of colours – the electric blues, the vivid pinks, the grays of immense variety – inject an additional sense of surreal eeriness into these unsettlingly magnetic, subtly paranoid paintings.
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Exhibition History: Profile
1956 Born in Siping City, Jilin Province
1982 Graduated from the Fine Art Department of Northeast University, Changchun, Jilin Province
Solo Exhibitions
2001
“Pan Dehai- Chubby Series” Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong
1994
“Pan Dehai’s Solo Exhibition” Goethe Institute, Beijing
Selected Group Exhibitions
2005
“Awakening: La France Mandarine- The French Influence on Chinese Art”, National Museum of Art, Beijing, China
2004
“Awakening: La France Mandarine- The French Influence on Chinese Art”, Urban Planning Exhibition Centre, Shanghai, China
2003
“Guiyang Oil Painting Biennale”, Guiyao, China
Schoeni Art Gallery Anniversary Exhibition, Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong
2002
“Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition”, Germany
2001
“Girls and Boys”, Soobin Art Gallery, Beijing, China
2000
“Asian Contemporary Art Exhibition”, Contemporary Art Gallery, London
1996
“Reality, Today and Tomorrow”, International Art Gallery, Beijing
1993
“From Mao to Pop Art”, Australian Art Museum, Melbourne Art Museum, Melbourne, Australia
“Post ’89 New Art”, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
1991
“Annual Exhibition of Oil Painting”, Chinese History and Military Museum, Beijing, China
1986
Organised and participated in Southwest Art Research Group
1985
“New Image Art Exhibition”, Shanghai and Nanjing
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