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Shen Jingdong
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Shen Jingdong (, born 1965) is a contemporary Chinese artist known for his paintings and sculptures of Chinese iconography. He currently lives in Beijing.
Shen Jingdong was born in 1965 in Nanjing (province of Jiangsu), China. Shen graduated from the Nanjing Xiaozhuang Normal School in 1984 and the Nanjing Arts Institute in 1991.
After studying Fine art, Shen was conscripted to the Military Drama Troupe of Nanjing Military Area, where he worked for 16 years until 2007.
In the 2000s, the emergence of Shen JingDong in a period of revival for Chinese Contemporary Art suggested a dawning of a new era. Previously, ideological criticism determined the direction of new contemporary art. Shen JingDong provides a definitive example of commercialized aesthetics in Chinese pop art. He attempted various conceptual and performing arts in the 1990s, influenced by Dadaism and pop art.
In 2006, ‘Hero No.12‘ was collected in the National Art Museum of China.
Since 2007, his works have been exhibited in Hong Kong, Italy, the Republic of Korea, Japan, France, New York and other areas of the United States.
In 2008, his Chinese and international artistic career evolved quickly; Shen become an important contemporary artist of the new wave with his Hero series. He created into different kinds of people the image of the soldier and of the icons of Chinese life as represented in new forms, sometimes diverted in expressive colors (Blue, Green, Red or Yellow).
In this work, he reveals his innermost thoughts, hidden in metaphors, humor and smiles. Amid the urbanisation and globalization occurring throughout China, Shen JingDong can be seen in his works as a witness to the changes that globalisation brings. Amid the strengthening of ideology and oppression of freedom that coincides with globalisation, his work provides a new way out. Through the harmony of the realm of both imagination and reality, he builds his own fairy tales.
His painting The Bugle realized in 2012 illustrates perfectly his work, allowing each observer to have a new look on the contemporary art, but also a reflection and interpretation intellectual, sensitive and emotional.
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