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Tsunshan (Chinese: 進珊; born 27 January 1956, Hong Kong) is a Swiss-Chinese contemporary artist. His work has been the subject of critical reviews in international art publications and newspapers, including Flash Art International, Frankfurter Rundschau, La Repubblica, and Berlingske Tidende.[1][2][3][4]
Born in Hong Kong, he has lived and worked in Switzerland since 1988.
Early life and education
[edit]Tsunshan studied art and design in Hong Kong between 1974 and 1978.[5] He later moved to London, where he studied at the Wrexham School of Art in North Wales before graduating in 1981 from the London College of Printing (now London College of Communication, University of the Arts London).
In 1981–1982, he received the Anna K. Meredith Scholarship and studied at Studio Art Centers International (SACI) in Florence under Jules Maidoff.
Career
[edit]Italy and early exhibitions (1982–1987)
[edit]After his studies, Tsunshan moved to Milan, where he developed his artistic practice and exhibited in several Italian cities including Rome, Naples, and Bologna.[3][6][7]
In 1983, he initiated Intervento Omocromico, a site-specific conceptual project in Gravina in Puglia. The project was reviewed in Flash Art and other publications.[8] A review in Segno (No. 33, November 1983) noted that among the participating artists from the Far East, Tsunshan stood apart for his "musicality, graphic lightness and poetry".[9]
His work was reviewed in Flash Art (Italian edition) and Flash Art International.[7] He was also reviewed in Italian newspapers including La Repubblica, Paese Sera, and l'Unità in 1987.[10][3]
A monograph titled TSUNSHAN was published in Milan in 1987 by Giancarlo Politi Editore, with critical essays by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, Francesca Alfano Miglietti, Giulio Ciavoliello and Claudia Ricci.[11]
Scandinavia (1986–1990)
[edit]In the late 1980s, Tsunshan exhibited at Galerie Zenit in Copenhagen. His work was reviewed in Danish newspapers including Berlingske Tidende and Politiken.[4] The Copenhagen exhibition was also the subject of an extended critical text by Swedish art critic Stig Åke Stålnacke, who described Tsunshan's paintings as possessing a "subdued and finely attuned dramatic force".[12]
Switzerland and international activity (1988–present)
[edit]In 1988, Tsunshan settled in Switzerland, where he established his studio. He worked for several years as an Art Director at advertising agencies in Zurich before devoting himself fully to painting.
He has since participated in international exhibitions, including ART Moscow (1991) and Offener Raum – Espacio Abierto (1992).[13]
In 2021, his work was included in Body of the Object as/in Art: European Art in Chinese Art Space at the Hong Art Museum in Chongqing, China.[14]
Artistic practice
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Tsunshan works primarily in abstract gestural painting, using a mixed technique of oil, acrylic, water, pigment, and sand on unprimed or artist-thickened cotton canvases. His technique includes the use of water jets to "wash out" colours.[15][16]
His paintings are consistently titled Untitled. The Grenchener Tagblatt noted that the artist's works invite the viewer into "a suggestive universe" in which meaning is left to personal interpretation.[17]
A recurring element in his work is a gilded square, which critics have associated with symbolic meanings in Chinese tradition.[18]
Critical reception
[edit]Writing in Frankfurter Rundschau, critic Kai Hoffmann described Tsunshan's work as "meditatively restrained, as if Pollock were moderated by Cy Twombly".[2]
Italian art critic Giacinto Di Pietrantonio wrote that Tsunshan's art is "a quest for a path rather than a route to a certain destination".[11]
Critic Francesca Alfano Miglietti described his painting as "liquid", appearing through layering, splashes, brushwork, and jets of colour.[19]
Writing in Flash Art (Italian edition), Giuditta Villa observed that Tsunshan combines elements of Chinese painting traditions with Western approaches to symbolic and formal expression.[1]
Selected exhibitions
[edit]- 1983 — Intervento Omocromico, Gravina in Puglia, Italy
- 1984 — Arte Fiera Bologna, Italy
- 1985 — «KAOS – dall'Alfa all'Omega» Museo Casabianca, Malo, Italy
- 1986 — Mostra Nazionale d'Arte Contemporanea, Termoli, Italy
- 1986 — Galerie Zenit, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 1988 — Galerie Gigot, Grenchen, Switzerland
- 1990 — Galerie Caroline Dohmen, Frankfurt, Germany
- 1991 — ART Moscow, Russia
- 1992 — Offener Raum – Espacio Abierto, Switzerland / Spain
- 2014 — Fondazione Ettore Pomarici Santomasi, Gravina in Puglia, Italy
- 2019 — Zähnteschüür, Oberrohrdorf, Switzerland
- 2021 — Hong Art Museum, Chongqing, China
- 2022 — Art International Zurich, Switzerland
References
[edit]- ^ a b Villa, Giuditta. Flash Art (Italian edition), No. 138, April 1987, Italy. [1]
- ^ a b Hoffmann, Kai. "Gezügelte Leidenschaft". Frankfurter Rundschau, 23 October 1990. [2]
- ^ a b c Benci, Jacopo. l'Unità (Rome), 2 February 1987. [3]
- ^ a b Hornung, Peter Michael. Berlingske Tidende, (Copenhagen), 19 June 1986. [4]
- ^ Faulstroh, Liselotte. Brugger Tagblatt, 16 September [1989], Switzerland. [5]
- ^ Mango, Lorenzo. Paese Sera (Rome), 26 January 1987. [6]
- ^ a b Battarra, Enzo. Flash Art (Italian edition), No. 120, December 1984, Italy. [7]
- ^ Coverage in Flash Art No. 119, February 1984 and Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno, 17 September 1983. [8] [9]
- ^ Battarra, Enzo. Segno, No. 33, November 1983, Italy. [10]
- ^ De Candia, Mario. La Repubblica (Rome), 16 January 1987. [11]
- ^ a b TSUNSHAN. Milan: Giancarlo Politi Editore, 1987. [12]
- ^ Stålnacke, Stig Åke. "Tsunshan's Paintings In Copenhagen: The Subdued Dramatic Force". 1986. [13]
- ^ «Espacio Abierto – Offener Raum» 1992, Spain / Switzerland. [14]
- ^ Body of the Object as/in Art: European Art in Chinese Art Space. Hong Art Museum, Chongqing, 2021. Coverage in China News, 24 September 2021. [15]
- ^ Griesser-Bertram, Cornelia. Der Murtenbieter, 22 August 1990, Switzerland. [16]
- ^ Alessandri, Giulio. Flash Art (Italian edition), No. 128, May 1985. [17]
- ^ Trachsel, Jacqueline. Grenchener Tagblatt, 14 December 1988, Switzerland. [18]
- ^ Rölke, Helga. Lyss Tagblatt, 14 April 1989 / Bieler Tagblatt, 15 December 1988, Switzerland. [19]
- ^ Alfano Miglietti, Francesca. In Catalogue Index. Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Paternò: Fabbri Editori, February 1988, Italy. [20]
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