We are proud to announce the opening of the exhibition

    Fang Lijun. Sea+Sky
    August 30–November 1st, 2009

    at the Kunsthalle Bielefeld in Germany.
    on Sunday August 30, 2009 at 11:30?a.?m.

    The artist will be present.

    Born in 1963 in the Chinese province of The show starts with Fang’s earliest Hebei, Fang Lijun is a world-renowned works of isolated men walking across artist who has been exhibiting steadily inhospitable landscapes, or anony- in Europe and the U.S. since 1995. mous-looking groups of people whose
He has become one of the art world’s themes are society and work. Later, most influential figures. the space is opened up, so that his figures float in the water or the sky.
 

    In cooperation with the Museum of Birds, babies, flowers, and insects Fine Arts in Taipei, the Kunsthalle appear as allegories in these works.
 

    Bielefeld is presenting a retrospective of the artist’s work, with about 50 Over the course of fifteen years Fang paintings and sculptures. has developed a kind of contemporary historical painting in which he portrays Chinese society as being marked by equal amounts of hardship and good cheer, or gloomy emptiness A and vibrant ease.