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SEM-ART GALLERY & DA XIANG ART SPACE FINGERPRINTS ZHANG YU’S WORK 8 juin - 2 0 j ui llet 2012 Dossier de Presse 20, avenue de la Costa 98000 MONACO Tel. : +377 97 70 50 70 Fax : +377 97 70 50 77 [email protected] www.sem-art.mc SEM-ART GALLERY & DA XIANG ART SPACE A l’occasion de l’exposition "Zhang Yu - Fingerprints", un catalogue a été édité, dont le texte d’introduction a été rédigé par Iain Robertson Pour plus d’informations, merci de contacter galerie SEM-ART. 20, avenue de la Costa 98000 MONACO Tel. : +377 97 70 50 70 Fax : +377 97 70 50 77 [email protected] www. s em - a r t . m c 2 FINGERPRINTS ZHANG YU’S WORK Le chemin emprunté par Zhang Yu en quête de son identité profonde est ardu. Il s’apparente à un pèlerinage qui malgré les distractions et tentations, les plaisirs et les déceptions rencontrés en chemin ne dévie pas de la voie qu’il s’est tracée. Iain Robertson Z pour les saisir dans toute leur profondeur. Toutefois, ces changements n’indiquent pas simplement le transfert du sujet de la peinture d’une certaine externalité vers l’intériorité, ils reflètent également une transformation intime de l’artiste. hang Yu a volontairement cherché à s’éloigner de la technique traditionnelle du lavis d’encre pour ses travaux expérimentaux réalisés à l’encre de Chine et au lavis. Malgré l’excellente formation académique reçue durant ses années d’études, il a préféré abandonner la tradition des touches texturées, afin d’éviter les stéréotypes, les redites et le plagiat. Plutôt que de suivre aveuglément les tenants de la « Renaissance de l’encre », Zhang privilégie une singularité de pensée visant à démasquer ce « mythe de l’encre », sublime mais faux, et il se confronte à de nouveaux processus de création non conventionnels. Le regard rétrospectif sur les différentes périodes du parcours créatif de Zhang – depuis la série Fan Painting (1986-1989) jusqu’à celle intitulée Portrait (1989-1992) – laisse apparaître deux changements majeurs. En premier lieu, on assiste à une modification du contexte dans lequel se situent les personnages, celui-ci évolue d’un arrière-plan complexe vers un espace quasiment vide. En second lieu, les images des personnages euxmêmes se déconstruisent progressivement, perdant peu à peu leur dimension incarnée pour se changer en symboles plus abstraits. Les visages fragmentaires et incomplets des peintures de Zhang donnent aux spectateurs tout l’espace nécessaire au déploiement de l’imagination, les invitant à se rapprocher des œuvres Dans la série Divine Light, Zhang Yu a adopté des façons subversives de réinterpréter la technique traditionnelle du lavis et de l’encre. Ici, la touche n’apparaît pas mais l’encre seule. Ses « cercles incomplets », ses «carrés interrompus », ses « morceaux brisés » symbolisent le chaos des commencements du monde. Des scènes d’un mystère indicible attirent immédiatement l’attention de l’observateur. Des morceaux de débris flottants, qui se superposent les uns aux autres, symbolisent les pensées par milliers qui agitent l’artiste. Ici encore, la singularité de Zhang imprègne toutes ses peintures. Daily News Series (2001- 2003) marque une nouvelle étape dans l’art de Zhang, mais elle n’est que transitoire. L’artiste juxtapose dans des collages au lavis et à l’encre des matériaux readymade comme le papier journal. Les morceaux épars de la série Divine Light contrastent avec la réalité sociale que transmet le papier journal, créant ainsi une sorte de tension entre le creux et le plein. L’art de Zhang est l’incarnation physique de son voyage vers le néant. Iain Robertson 20, avenue de la Costa 98000 MONACO Tel. : +377 97 70 50 70 Fax : +377 97 70 50 77 [email protected] www.se m- ar t.mc 3 FINGERPRINTS ZHANG YU’S WORK Le long rouleau de l’artiste, support traditionnel de la peinture paysagiste au pinceau, est un hommage essentiel et réducteur à cette grande tradition. Iain Robertson Lorsqu’il crée la série Fingerprint (1991, 2001-2008), Zhang évoque la figure ascétique d’un moine qui reproduit des millions d’empreintes digitales symbolisant les engagements des hommes vis-àvis de grandes causes à défendre ; les empreintes digitales montrent l’impact psychologique de ces engagements. Le but de Zhang est de créer un effet visuel unique par la superposition sur le papier de riz de ces milliers d’empreintes de doigts rouges. L’artiste tire aussi parti de la plasticité du papier de riz et de la pression exercée par les doigts qui creusent la surface et en modifient ainsi l’aspect et la structure. Les profondes empreintes laissées sur le papier de riz ne sont pas sans évoquer un bas-relief. Les lumières et les ombres changeantes créant une série d’images en relief qui captivent totalement l’observateur, lui faisant oublier les œuvres elles-mêmes, et gommant, si ce n’est même oblitérant complètement, la signification originelle des empreintes digitales. Mais toute la subtilité de ces œuvres vient de ce qu’elles se révèlent plus captivantes encore pour l’observateur qui connaît leur sens premier et la source de cette création grâce au commentaire verbal qu’en donne l’artiste. pratique du lavis à l’encre à un niveau inégalé. Sa série Fingerprint peut non seulement être vue comme une révolte contre la technique traditionnelle du lavis à l’encre, mais aussi comme une contestation du concept fondamental de la peinture. Derrière ses actes de défi, Zhang cache un immense rêve : explorer les origines mêmes de l’art. Pour atteindre ce but, il atténue la tension portée sur la forme en simplifiant les couleurs. D’un côté, il relie tous les aspects colorés pertinents à l’engagement, et se limite aux trois couleurs qu’il a choisies –le rouge, le blanc et le noir – utilisées dans des tonalités finement différenciées. Mais, d’un autre côté, il montre une grande diversité dans les formats du papier. Zhang propose même une longue peinture verticale suspendue très haut, qui non seulement retient très efficacement l’attention de l’observateur mais évoque également cette sensation d’intemporalité que donnent habituellement les longs rouleaux peints. En résumé, la série Fingerprint de Zhang est une œuvre d’une grande profondeur, un chefd’œuvre qui ouvre une perspective vers l’extérieur. Qui plus est, par la pratique du Zen et d’incessants efforts pour perfectionner son art, Zhang porte la ChingHsin Chung 20, avenue de la Costa 98000 MONACO Tel. : +377 97 70 50 70 Fax : +377 97 70 50 77 [email protected] www.se m- ar t.mc Tout comme tous les artistes chinois contemporains sérieux, l’œuvre de Zhang a conscience de la nature et est en symbiose avec elle. L’art paysager dans la grande tradition literati chinoise exige après tout que l’artiste intègre et s’imprègne de l’essence de la montagne qui devient métaphore de la nature au sens large. Zhang est particulièrement bien placé pour le faire parce que la voie qu’il a choisie, intense et pragmatique, est le chemin (bouddhiste) vers l’éveil. Iain Robertson 4 FINGERPRINTS ZHANG YU’S WORK ZHANG YU FINGERPRINTS-2005.11-2009 - 7-12, 2009 125 x 125 cm Xuan paper, Plant pigment 5 FINGERPRINTS ZHANG YU’S WORK 8 JUI N - 20 JUILLET 2012 Liste des pièces de l’exposition 20, avenue de la Costa 98000 MONACO Tel. : +377 97 70 50 70 Fax : +377 97 70 50 77 [email protected] www.se m- ar t.mc 6 FINGERPRINTS ZHANG YU’S WORK 8 juin - 20 juillet 2012 Liste des pièces de l’exposition ZHANG YU FINGERPRINTS-2011.11-2, 2011 46 x 46 cm Xuan paper, Plant pigment ZHANG YU FINGERPRINTS-2008.12-1, 2008 47 x 73 cm Xuan paper, Plant pigment ZHANG YU FINGERPRINTS-2005.11-2009 - 7-12, 2009 125 x 125 cm Xuan paper, Plant pigment ZHANG YU FINGERPRINTS-2010.3-1, 2010 75 x 75 cm Xuan paper, Plant pigment ZHANG YU FINGERPRINTS-2010.6-1, 2010 124 x 86 cm Xuan paper, Plant pigment 7 FINGERPRINTS ZHANG YU’S WORK 8 juin - 20 juillet 2012 Liste des pièces de l’exposition ZHANG YU FINGERPRINTS-2011-7.1, 2011 136 x 68 cm Xuan paper, Plant pigment ZHANG YU FINGERPRINTS-2011-9.3, 2011 68 x 68 cm Xuan paper, Longjing Spring Water ZHANG YU FINGERPRINTS-2005.5-1, 2005 200 x 100 cm Xuan paper, Plant pigment ZHANG YU fINGERPRINTS-2010.11-1, 2010 99 x 90 cm Xuan paper, Longjing Spring Water ZHANG YU FINGERPRINTS-2011.12-2, 2011 63 x 46 cm Xuan paper, Longjing Spring Water 8 FINGERPRINTS ZHANG YU’S WORK 8 juin - 20 juillet 2012 Liste des pièces de l’exposition ZHANG YU FINGER PRINT 2011.9-1, 2011 47 x 73 cm Xuan paper, Longjing Spring Water ZHANG YU FINGERPRINTS-2012.1-2, 2012 46 x 46 cm Xuan paper, Plant pigment 9 Lundi au Vendredi de 9h à 19h et le Samedi de 10h à 18h 20, avenue de la Costa 98000 MONACO Tel. : +377 97 70 50 70 Fax : +377 97 70 50 77 [email protected] www. s em - a r t . m c FINGERPRINTS ZHANG YU’S WORK 8 juin - 2 0 JUILLET 2012 Biographie SEM-ART N°. 15, Boguan Rd. North District Taichung City 404, Taiwan www.daxiang.com.tw Tel: +886 4 2208 4288 Fax: +886 4 2208 3188 E-mail: [email protected] Zhang Yu (courtesy name Yu Ren , literary name Shi Yu ) 1959 Born in Tianjin, China 1988 Graduated from Tianjin Fine Arts Academy of Arts and Crafts 2004 Guest Professor in the New Media Department, Beijing Film Academy 2002 Associate Professor at Tianjin Transportation Vocational College 2005 Established his studio in Beijing 2003 Gave lectures at the Department of Oriental Arts and the Department of Design of the School of Liberal Arts, Nankai University, Tianjin 2004 Gave lectures at the New Media Department, Beijing Film Academy, Beijing 2006 Gave lectures at the Comprehensive Painting Department, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, Tianjin 2012 Fingerprints: Cultivation/Practice – Works by Zhang Yu, Art Stage Singapore Hall, Taipei, China Works by Zhang Yu, Creek Art, 798, Beijing, China 1993 Zhang Yu: Fan Painting Exhibition, Zhuxianxuan Art Gallery, Hong Kong, China Fingerprints: Performance/ Red/ Water, Sem-Art Gallery, Monte Carlo, Monaco 2009 Zhang Yu’s Fingerprint Works, Basel Art Asia, Basel, Switzerland 1979 Admitted to Tianjin Yangliuqing Painting Society Editorial Director, Senior Editor of World of Chinese Painting, Tianjin Yangliuqing Fine Arts Press 2006 Moved to Beijing Presently lives and works as a professional artist in Beijing Lecturing: 1993 Gave lectures at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium Solo Exhibitions: 2011 Cultivation Practice: Zhang Yu’s Fingerprint works 1991-2011, Today Art Museum, Beijing Fingerprints – Zhang Yu, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, NY, USA 2010 Diffused Fingerprints – Zhang Yu’s Art works, National Sun Yat-sen Memorial Zhang Yu’s Fingerprint Works, Art Asia Miami, Miami, FL, USA Fingerprints: Traces of Zhang Yu’s Cultivation Practice, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, China Zhang Yu’s “One-Finger Chan”: Cultural and Spiritual Exploration, Da Xiang Art Space, Taichung, China 2008 Fingerprints: Exhibition of 2007 Fingerprints: Zhang Yu, Goedhuis Contemporary, New York, NY, USA. 2006 Fingerprints: Zhang Yu, Goedhuis Contemporary, London, UK 2004 Divine Light: Ink Paintings by Zhang Yu, Goedhuis Contemporary, New York, NY, USA 2001 Zhang Yu: Experimental Ink and Wash, Red Mansion Foundation, London, UK 1992 Chinese Artist Zhang Yu: Modern Ink and Wash Exhibition, Belyaevo Modern Art Museum, Moscow, Russia 1989 Zhang Yu: Fan Painting Exhibition, Qingdao Workers’ Cultural Palace, Qingdao, China 1988 Zhang Yu: Exhibition of Ink and Wash Paintings, Tianjin Art Gallery, Tianjin, China Joint Exhibitions: 2012 Towards Notion – Maximalism in Contrasts, Hillwood Gallery of Long Island University, Long Island, NY, USA Art Space, Taichung, China Confluence, Sohan Qadri – Zhang Yu, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong, China OH! Nirica, la materia incontra i sogni, Otto Luogo dell’arte, Firenze, Italy Non-Media: Works by Zhang Yu and Liang Quan, Enjoy Museum of Art, Beijing, China 2010 Towards Notion – Maximalism in Contrasts, Contrasts Gallery, Shanghai,China 2011 Towards Notion – Maximalism in Contrasts, Frick Art Museum, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Metaphysical Entity, Da xiang Revival of Ink Painting, Hong Kong Contemporary Art Museum, 798, Beijing, China The End of Ink and Wash Painting! From Ink and Wash Painting to Ink and Wash – Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Da Xiang Art Space, Taichung, China 2009 Site – Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Da Xiang Art Space, Taichung, and National Hsinchu University of Education Art and Culture Centre, Hsinchu, China Gate Gallery, Beijing, China The End of Ink and Wash Painting! Creating One’s Own Contemporary Art, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China Intangible: Group Exhibition of Zhang Yu, Liang Quan and Liu Xuguang, Creek Art, 798, Beijing, China 2008 Ink and Wash Ink and Wash Painting: Zhang Yu, Li Huasheng, Liang Quan, HJY (Hejingyuan) Art Center, Beijing, China 2005 Nature: Experimental Ink Painting Report, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China Upcoming Ink Painting: Modern Ink Painting Exhibition, Palais Rihour, Lille, France 2007 Traces and Temperament: Contemporary Art Exhibition, Red Narration in Ink and Wash, Yokohama Zaim Gallery, Yokohama, Japan 2000 Exhibition of Abstract Colour and Ink Art, Fang Gallery, Silicon Valley, CA, USA 1999 Color, Brush and Ink: Zhang Yu and Heidi Meyer, German Embassy, Beijing, China Abstract Colour and Ink, Chinese Cultural Center of San Francisco, CA, USA 1997 Exhibition of New Ink and Wash Art, Berlin Art Museum; Halle Museum; Galerie TTT, Heimbach; Leipzig University Museum, Germany San Francisco, CA, USA 1995 Ink and Light: Chinese Contemporary Experimental Ink and Wash Group Exhibition, Flanders Expo, Ghent, Belgium 1996 Homecoming: Chinese Contemporary Ink and Wash Group Exhibition, Gallery on the Rim, World Journal Gallery, 1993 Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Abstract Ink and Wash, National Art Museum, Beijing, China Six Chinese Modern Ink and Wash Artists, Rong Bao Zhai, Beijing, China 1990 Five Contemporary Painters Exhibition, Contemporary Art Museum, Beijing, China Group Exhibition 2012 World of Ink/Contemporary Art Exhibition, M50 Art District, Shanghai, China Appreciating the East: Exhibition of Classical Chinese Art, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China 2012 Ink Painting – International Ink Painting Exhibition, National Sun Yat- sen Memorial Hall, Taipei, China Shape Without Shape Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, Kunstwerk Karlshütte Rendsburg/Büdelsdorf, Germany 2011 Ink and Wash China, Chinese and Italian Contemporary Art Exchange Exhibition, Museo Rivelli di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Napoli, Galleria Marino, Rome, Italy Visible Soul (Likeness Arises from the Heart/Mind) - 4th Chinese Abstract Art Exhibition, PIFO New Art Gallery, Beijing, China Writing and Passing – Exhibition of Abstract Art, ESSE Contemporary Art Document Research Institute, 798, Beijing, China New Realm: Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia The Great Celestial Abstraction: Chinese Art in the 21th century, The Katherine E Nash Gallery and the Department of Art, The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, U.S.A The Great Celestial Abstraction: Chinese Art in the 21th century, Macro Testaccio Contemporary Art Museum of Rome, Rome, Italy Context China/Beyond Spiritual Expression/Easel-work 10+10, Beijing Contemporary Art Museum, Beijing, China 2010 Ink and Not Ink: Chinese Contemporary Ink and Wash Exhibition, Gliptoteka HAZU - Sculpture Museum of the Croatian Academy of Science and Arts Homeward Bound I Go: The 1st Contemporary Painting Exhibition Pudong International Airport, Shanghai, China The Format and Space of Ink and Wash, Songzhuang East Zone Art Center, Beijing, China Beyond the Horizon – Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago, Chile Painting/Non-Painting – 2010 Hangzhou International Modern Calligraphy Art Exhibition, Hangzhou, China Memory of the Past: Contemporary Chinese Ink Painting, Transylvania University Morlan Gallery, Lexington, KY, USA Tracks and Qualitative Change - 2nd Beijing Film Academy International New Media Art Triennial, Beijing Film Academy No 4 Space Art Museum, Beijing, China Refactoring——Chinese Abstract Art TOP Exhibition, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China 2009 Water and Color: Contemporary Ink and Wash Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China Present-Day Ink and Wash: 2009 Shanghai New Ink and Wash Exhibition, Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China Yi Pai: Century Thinking, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China Ink and Not Ink: Chinese Contemporary Ink and Wash Invitational Exhibition, Warsaw Palace Museum, Poland; Museum of Hungarian Agriculture - Magyar Mezogazdasági Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest Romania Shanghai International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai, China 60th anniversary of the Republic of China, Contemporary Art Achievements Exhibition, Golden Hall, Beijing Hotel, Beijing, China Open Flexibility: Innovative Contemporary Ink Art, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, China Longitude and Latitude of Time and Space – Chinese Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition, Shanghai 2010 Art Center, Shanghai, China 2008 Yi Pai: 30 Years of “Abstract” Art in China, La Caixa Forum Palma, La Caixa Forum Barcelona, La Caixa Forum Madrid, Spain Individual Case: Artists in Art History and Art Criticism, SZ Art Center, 798, Beijing, China Towards Post-Abstract: Academic Invitational Exhibition, PIFO New Art Gallery, Beijing, China Art Forum: The Status and the Prospects of Contemporary Ink and Wash On Either Side of the Straits, Da Xiang Art Space, Taiwan, Arts and Humanities Centre of Jing-Yi University, Taichung, China Shanghai MoCA Envisage II Butterfly Dream, MoCA Shanghai, Shanghai, China Ink and Not Ink: Chinese Contemporary Ink and Wash Exhibition, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China 6th Shenzhen International Biennale of Ink and Wash, Shenzhen Museum, Shenzhen, China 2007 Contemporary Context / Chinese Edition / Contemporary Art Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China The Cicada Sheds its Shell: Language Salvation from Tradition and Revolution, Square Gallery of Contemporary Art, Nanjing, China China Onward: The Estella Collection of Chinese Contemporary Art, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark Abstract Narrative Art Exhibition and Symposium on Modernity and Abstract Art, YQK Art Space Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China Lines: Contemporary Chinese Abstract Art Exhibition, Creek Art, Shanghai, China 3rd Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Modern Art Museum, Chengdu, China Made in Beijing, Hongik University Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea Continuation, Variation and Infiltration: Ink, a Monochromatic World, Art Museum of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo, Japan The Supplemental History: Works from the Collection of GDMOA, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China Yi Pai: 30 Years of “Abstract” Art in China, Wall Art Museum, Beijing, China 2006 Revival of Ink and Wash: 2006 Shanghai New Ink and Wash Exhibition, Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China International Modern Ink Painting Exhibition, Manhattan Asian Cultural Center, New York, NY, USA Crossing: Modes of Contemporary Ink and Wash, Art Gallery of Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, Tianjin, China Chinese Ink and Wash Documentary Exhibition 1976-2006, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, China Chinese Contemporary Art Documentary, New Millennium Monument Art Museum, Beijing, China 2005 Experiences and Consciousness: Beijing Film University New Media Art Festival, Beijing Film University, Beijing, China Experimental Ink and Wash Retrospective Exhibition 19852000, Shenzhen Art Academy Exhibition Hall, Shenzhen, China Encre de Chine Expérimentale, Conference at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France Salute to ‘85: 1985-2005, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China Book/Non-Book: Opened Space and Time of Calligraphy, Art Museum of the Chinese Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, China Metaphysics 2005: Black and White, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China cal and Physical, Shanghai Art Gallery, Shanghai, China 2004 Irrelevant to Reality! Contemporary Chinese Art Exhibition, Liu Haisu Art Museum, Shanghai, China 20 Years of Experiment in Chinese Ink and Wash, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China Dream of the Dragon’s NationContemporary Art from China, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland International Art and Design Festival, the Seventh Regiment Armory, New York, NY, USA Fu Baoshi Prize: Ink and Wash Painting Nanjing Triennial, Jiangsu Art Museum, Nanjing, China Yokohama International Film Festival: Visual Group, Neo-Academicism of China, Bank Art 1929, Yokohama, Japan 16th Asian International Art Exhibition, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China Abstract Ink and Wash Invitational Exhibition, Xi’an International Exhibition Centre, Xi’an, China 2000 New Chinese Painting, Liu Haisu Art Gallery, Shanghai; Jiangsu Art Museum, Nanjing, China International Contemporary Art Exchange Exhibition, Jiangsu Art Museum, Nanjing, China Shanghai Art Gallery Collection Exhibition, Shanghai, China 4th Shenzhen International Biennale of Ink and Wash, Guan Shanyue Art Museum, Shenzhen Art Academy Exhibition Hall, Shenzhen, China 1999 Exhibition of “Existence” and “Expression”, Gallery of Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, Tianjin, China 2003 Chinese Art Today, China Millennium Monument Art Museum, Beijing, China 14th Asian International Art Exhibition, Fukuoka Modern Art Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan Exhibition of Chinese Experimental Ink and Wash, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China 2002 17th Asian International Art Exhibition, Daejeon (Taejon) Art Museum, Daejeon, Korea Hong Kong Art Gallery Collection Exhibition, Hong Kong Art Gallery, Hong Kong, China Ground Zero: Material Art Invitational Exhibition, Art Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China «Ost + West» Ausstellung für die Zeitgenössische Kunst aus China, Künstlerhaus in Wien, Vienna, Austria New Era of Ink and Wash: Cross-Straits Exchange Exhibition of Contemporary Ink and Wash, Jeff Hsu’s Art Gallery, Taipei, China 2001 ‘Dream_01’, Contemporary Chinese Art, The Atlantis Gallery, London, UK 32nd Düsseldorf Modern Art Exhibition, Düsseldorf Exhibition Centre, Düsseldorf, Germany Exhibition of Metaphysi- Dialogue 1999, Art Gallery of Beijing International Art Palace, Beijing, TEDA (Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area) Contemporary Art Museum, Tianjin, China 1997 Grand Exhibition of Chinese Art, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China Stars of the Century: Chinese Art Biennale, Ontario Art Museum, Toronto, Canada 1996 Symposium on Chinese Ink and Wash: Toward the 21st Century and Exhibition for Viewing and Emulating, Art Gallery of South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China 1994 Zero: Art Exhibition, Flanders Exhibition Center, Ghent, Belgium 1992 Invitational Exhibition of Traditional Chinese Painting, Research Institute of Traditional Chinese Painting, Beijing, China 1991 2nd Exhibition of Chinese Realistic Painting with Fine Brushwork, Museum of Chinese History, Beijing, China 1st International Fan Painting Exhibition, Beijing Concert Hall Gallery, Beijing, China Exhibition of Prize-Winning Works of Ge Shan Painting Competition, Ge Shan Art Gallery, Taiwan, China; Empress Place Museum, Singapore At the Edge of Ink and Wash: Exhibition of Works on Paper, Hongkong Arts Development Council/ Visual Arts Space Gallery, Hong Kong, China 1990 27th Asian Modern Art Exhibition, Tokyo-to Art Museum, Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan 1998 Inside Out: New Chinese Art Exhibition, P.S.1 Gallery, New York Modern Art Gallery, Henry Art Gallery New York, NY, San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA, USA; Monterey Museum of Contemporary Art, Mexico, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia, Hong Kong Arts Development Council/ Art Space Museum of Art, Hong Kong, China. Spring Exhibition of 1990, Research Institute of Traditional Chinese Painting, Beijing, China Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China 13th Asian International Art Exhibition, National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Looking Back to Chang’an: Invitational Exhibition of Modern Ink and Wash for Collection, Xi’an Art Museum, Xi’an, China 1989 Chinese New Literati Painting, Research Institute of Traditional Chinese Painting, Beijing, China 1988 1st Exhibition of Chinese Realistic Painting with Fine Brushwork, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China 1986 New Construction of Chinese Painting Exhibition, Hao Zhen Gallery, Singapore Exhibition Curator: 2010 The End of Ink and Wash Painting – Exhibition of Contemporary Art: From Ink and Wash Painting to Ink and Wash, Da Xiang Art Space, Taichung, China 2009 Site: Contemporary Art Exhibition, Da Xiang Art Space, Taichung, China The End of Ink and Wash Painting! Creating One’s Own Contemporary Art, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China 2008 Ink and Wash Ink and Wash Painting, HJY (Hejingyuan) Art Gallery, Beijing, China 2007 Traces and Temperament: Contemporary Art Exhibition, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China 2003 Exhibition of Chinese Experimental Ink and Wash, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China 2006 Crossing: Modes of Contemporary Ink and Wash, Art Gallery of Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, Tianjin, China 1999 Dialogue 1999, Art Gallery of Beijing International Art Palace, Beijing, TEDA (Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area) 2005 Nature: Experimental Ink Painting, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China Upcoming Ink Painting: Modern Ink Painting Exhibition, Palais Rihour, Lille, France Salute to ‘85: 1985-2005, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China 1996 Symposium on Chinese Ink and Wash Toward the 21st Century and Exhibition for Viewing and Emulating, Art Gallery of South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China 1995 Ink and Light: Contemporary Chinese Abstract Ink and Wash Exhibition, Flanders Exhibition Center, Ghent, Belgium 1993 Chinese Contemporary Color Ink Art Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China Six Chinese Modern Ink and Wash Artists Exhibition, Rong Bao Zhai, Beijing, China 1991 1st International Fan Painting Exhibition, Beijing Concert Hall Gallery, Beijing, China 1990 Group Exhibition of Five Contemporary Artists, Contemporary Art Museum, Beijing, China Personal Publications: 01. Gallery of Chinese Modern Ink and Wash Personalities Wang Mengqi and Zhang Yu, Henan Art Publishing House 1992 Publishing House 1999 02. Chinese Contemporary Ink and Wash Artist - Zhang Yu, Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House 1994 06. Zhang Yu’s Fingerprint Works, Goedhuis Contemporary Art Gallery, USA, 2007 03. ZHANG YU, Tao Water Art Gallery, W Barnstable/ Provincetown, MA, USA 1999 04. History of Black and white: Chinese Contemporary Experimental Ink Painting— Zhang Yu, Hubei Fine Arts 05. Zhang Yu’s Inspiration Works, Goedhuis Contemporary Art Gallery, USA, 2004 07. Fingerprints - Zhang Yu 1991— 2008, Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House 2008 08. Zhang Yu: A Case Study of a Contemporary Artist 1984—2008, chief editor Yin Shuangxi, Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House 2008 09. Fingerprints: Traces of Zhang Yu’s Cultivation Practice 2008-2009, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, China, 2009 10. Zhang Yu’s “One-Finger Chan”: Cultural and Spiritual Exploration, Da Xiang Art Space 2009 11. Zhang Yu: From Abstraction to Essence Image, (chief editor Liu Xuguang) Henan University Publishing House, Henan, China, 2009 12. Zhang Yu--Diffused Fingerprints, Da Xiang Art Space, Artist magazine, Taipei, China, 2010 13. Self-Cultivation – Zhang Yu Fingerprints 1991-2011, (chief editor Feng Boyi), Today Art Museum, China, 2011 14. Fingerprints – Zhang Yu, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, NY, Beverly Hills, CA, USA, Hong Kong, China, 2011 15. Fingerprints, Sem-Art Gallery Monaco Gallery, Monaco, 2012 Other Publications: 01. Chinese Modern Ink and Wash Painting, chief editor Zhang Yu Tianjin Yangliuqing Fine Art Press 1991 02. Trends in Modern Chinese Ink and Wash, vol. I chief editor Zhang Yu, Tianjin Yangliuqing Fine Art Press 1993 03. Trends in Modern Chinese Ink and Wash, vol. II chief editor Zhang Yu, Tianjin Yangliuqing Fine Art Press 1994 04. Trends in Modern Chinese Ink and Wash, vol. III chief editor Zhang Yu, Heilongjiang Fine Arts Publishing House 1996 05. History of Black and White: Chinese Contemporary Experimental Ink Painting 1992-1999, planned and coordinated by Zhang Yu, Hubei Fine Arts Publishing House 1999 06. Trends in Modern Chinese Ink and Wash, vol. IV chief editor Zhang Yu, Heilongjiang Fine Arts Publishing House 2000 07. Chinese Open and Experimental Ink and Wash, chief editor Zhang Yu, The Milky Way Publishing Co Hong Kong 2002 08. Chinese Experimental Ink and Wash 1993-2003, planned and coordinated by Zhang Yu, Heilongjiang Fine Arts Publishing House 2004 09. Properties: Report of Experimental Ink and Wash, chief editor Zhang Yu, Hubei Fine Arts Publishing House 2005 10. Upcoming Ink Painting: Contemporary Experimental Ink and Wash, chief editor Zhang Yu, Pacific Press Paris, France 2005 11. Traces and Temperament, chief editor Zhang Yu, Hong Kong Asian Culture Communication Association 2007 12. Site (끝), chief editor Zhang Yu, Da Xiang Art Space 2009 13. Back to the Essence – From Ink Painting to Ink, chief editor Zhang Yu, Da Xiang Art Space, Taichung, China 2010 In Art History: 01. Chinese Contemporary Art Documents 1989-1990, by Lü Peng, Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House, 1991 02. ’90s Contemporary Art China, by Lü Peng, Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House, 1999 03. A History of Fine Arts in New China 1949-1999, by Zou Yuejin, Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House, 2002 04. Portraits of the 100 Most Influential Artists in Contemporary Chinese Art, chief editor Gao Minglu, Hubei Fine Arts Publishing House, 2005 05. Retrospective of Experimental Ink and Wash 1985-2000, by Lü Peng, Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House, 2005 06. An Art History of Twentieth-Century China, by Lü Peng, Peking University Press, 2006 Art 1979-2009, by Lü Peng, Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House 2009 07. Artists in Art History, by Lü Peng, Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House, 2008 10. Total Modernity and the Avant- garde in Twentiethcentury Chinese art, by Gao Minglu, MIT Press, 2011 08. 60 Years of Chinese Fine Arts1949- 2009, People’s Publishing House, 2009 09. 30 Years’ Exploration of Chinese Contemporary 11. Art of Modern China, by Julia F. Andrews and Kuiyi Shen, University of California Press, 2011 Main Collectors: Metropolitian Museum, New York, U.S.A Red Mansion Foundation, London, UK Guangdong Art Gallery, Guangzhou, China Da Xiang Art Space, Taichung, China Hong Kong Art Museum, Hong Kong, China Shuhua Art Educational Foundation, San Francisco, U.S.A Ucity Art Museum of GAFA, Guangzhou, China Yuan Zhaotang Art Collection Gallery, Shenzhen, China Benetton Museum, Italy Belyaevo Modern Modern Art Museum, Moscow, Russia Louisiana Art Museum, Humlebæk, Denmark Chinese Culture Center, San Francisco, U.S.A Geodhuis Modern Art Gallery, New York, U.S.A Jingquan Gallery, Boston, U.S.A Chengdu Modern Art Museum, Chengdu, China TEDA Art Gallery, Tianjin, China Howmuseum, Shanghai, China Fang Gallery, California, U.S.A Meilun Art Gallery, Changsha, China The Estella Collection Foundation, New York, U.S.A Sem Art Gallery, Monte Carlo, Monaco Fine Arts Documents Art Gallery, Wuhan, Hubei Olenska Foundation Art Museum, Geneva, Switzerland National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China Rong Bao Zhai, Beijing, China Shanghai Art Gallery, Shanghai, China Hanmo Art Gallery, Beijing, China University of Louvain Museum, Louvain, Belgium Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium Huitai Art Center, Tianjin, China Chengwei Ventures LLC Fundation, Shanghai, China Sanchuan Gallery, Beijing, China Wanlong Enterprise Group, Xi’an, China