Xie Fan

I had been working on ceramics for about eight years. Before, I used to paint on silk. After my first solo exhibition ended, and before the beginning of my second solo show, I was thinking if there were any other possibilities. The paintings on silk leaned more towards pure visuality. During this period, I was constantly studying the light and colors as perceived by the human retina and how these elements eliminate our other perceptions. Once I achieved this, I began again to reflect on the importance of materiality and substance. Because when painting on silk, one can never paint black but only colour - there is thus no end.

— Xie Fan

Having concluded a period of exploring the perceptibility of light and color through paintings on silk, Xie Fan embarked on a journey to rediscover the origins of painting through alternative support for the painted image, aiming at leaving traces of time from a contemporary perspective. Attempting to take the language of painting as a subject to reflect on its resonance with nature and history, the artist fires clay panels like artificial rocks; while the painting process is innovative, it recalls a time of the past.

Xie Fan (b. 1983, Jiangyou, Sichuan Province, China) received his BFA from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute (SFAI) in 2005. Recent solo exhibitions include Various Fires, Académie Conti (Vosne-Romanée, France, 2024); Dionysus‘ Screen, Galerie Marguo (Paris, France, 2023); Sediment, Sifang Art Museum, Tongren Road Space (Shanghai, China, 2022); Back To The Footlights Tomorrow, WHITE SPACE BEIJING (Beijing, China, 2014). Recent group exhibitions include Night is the Shadow of the Earth, Wind H Art Center (Beijing, China, 2023); A Place for Everything and Everything in its Place, BlLUNT SOCIETY (Shanghai, China, 2023); Silkroad on the Moonlight, Gowolhun (Seoul, South Korea,2017); Mountain Sites: Views of Laoshan, Sifang Art Museum (Nanjing, China, 2016); The Moscow Biennale, All-Russia Exhibition Centre, VDNKh (Moscow, Russia, 2015); Absolute Collection Guideline, Sifang Art Museum (Nanjing, China, 2015). Xie Fan currently lives and works between Beijing and Chengdu.

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Born 1983 in Jiangyou, Sichuan, China. Lives and works between Beijing and Sichuan, China.

Education

2005	MFA, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Sichuan, China

Solo Exhibitions

2024	Académie Conti, Various Fires, Vosne-Romanée, France
2023	Galerie Marguo, Dionysuss Screen, Paris, France
2022	Sifang Art Museum, Sediment, Shanghai, China
2016	Lin & Lin Gallery, One and A Half Years, Taipei
2014	WHITE SPACE BEIJING, Back to the Footlights Tomorrow, Beijing, China
2012	A4 Contemporary Arts Center, A4 Young Artist Experimental Season 2^nd Round Exhibition, Chengdu, China
	WHITE SPACE BEIJING, The Layers, Beijing, China
2011	Mapping Asia, Xie Fan, Beijing, China

Group Exhibitions

2024	LDMS Galleria M, Gleaming: The Twin Flames, Shanghai, China
2023	Wind H Art Center, Night is the Shadow of the Earth, Beijing, China
	Blunt Society, A Place for Everything and Everything in its Place, Shanghai, China
2022	Dongyi Art Gallery, Epic Everyday: Urban Life and Public Space in Chengdu, Chengdu, China
2019	WHITE SPACE BEIJING, A White Space Odyssey, Beijing, China
2017	Gowolhun, Silkroad on the Moonlight, Seoul, South Korea
	A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Spring Discovery 2017, Chengdu, China
	Yinchuan Museum of Contemporary Art, Reading the Raindrops-Western Artists Documenta, Yinchuan, China
2016	Wangying Art Museum, Life Forest, Shijiazhuang, China
	Taikang Space, Ghost In Flash: Post- photography in China, Beijing, China
	Gallery Su, Unflattening, Seoul, Korea
	Sifang Art Museum, Mountain Sites: Views of Laoshan, Nanjing, China
	China Art Museum, Wu Yu × Fang Yan, Shanghai, China
	SPSI ART MUSEUM, Transcendence, Shanghai, China
2015	All-Russian Exhibition Centre, Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia
	SIFANG ART MUSEUM, Excellent Chinese Painter, Satisfaction Guaranteed Liao Guohe, Nanjing, China
	Tokyo Gallery, In Between Sceneries: Intuition and Experience, Beijing, China
2014	Lin & Lin Gallery, Wormhole – Geo – Attraction, Taipei
	WHITE SPACE BEIJING, Memo II, Beijing, China
2013	Suzhou Art Museum, Yan Wenliang Art Award, Suzhou, China
2012	Lin & Lin Gallery, A City of Others, Taipei
	CAFA Art Museum, CAFAM Future Exhibition – Sub – phenomenon: Ecology Report of Chinese Young Art, Beijing, China
2011	Sakshi Gallery, Essence of Memory, Taipei
	LArt Gallery, New Colour, Chengdu, China
2010	Mercator Foundation, Das Ich Im Anderen, Essen, Germany

Xie Fan: Various Fires

Exhibition at Académie Conti, Vosne-Romanée Film

26 Apr 2024

The Académie Conti, a collaborative project between the Consortium Museum and Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, presents Chinese artist Xie Fan 's first institutional exhibition in...