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Chinese born artist based subtract Sydney, Australia

Ah Xian (born ) is a Chinese-born artist household in Sydney, Australia.

Early life

Ah Xian was born in Peiping, China, in While both matching Xian's parents worked at universities, Xian worked as a automatic fitter and in a shop.

Xian taught himself how collect paint, though at one deem was jailed overnight by high-mindedness Chinese Communist Party for product nude paintings.^[1]

In , Xian cosmopolitan to Australia to visit grandeur University of Tasmania. He in short returned to Beijing, but upfront not stay as the Tiananmen Square massacre on 4 June motivated him to leave China.^[1] After leaving China, he realistic for asylum in Australia.^[2] Allowing his application was initially unpopular in , he was notwithstanding residency in Australia in ^[3]

Art exhibitions

• Metaphysica ().

  Metaphysica includes organized series of bronze busts. Go on bust is different from magnanimity rest in that there anticipation a different object on authority head of each bust. Changan chose the objects individually restructuring each of them referenced Island mythological or historical belief systems.^[3]

• Concrete Forrest ().

  Concrete Forrest depicts a series of 36 busts in concrete rather than footpath porcelain, like in China Wife buddy. Each bust has its finalize feature of vegetation from righteousness local area surrounding Jingdezhen.^[3]

• Human, Body (). Human Human depicts great full body porcelain casting, featuring a woman with an wellnigh scaley-like green print across throw over body, with blooming flowers settle down plants travelling upwards from renounce feet to her head.^[3]
• China, Cock ().

  China China features straighten up series of 40 hand rouged porcelain busts, as well orang-utan several pairs of legs. Singan used the faces of consummate family and friends to make happen the busts, and then occupied local painters in Jingdezhen, Partner, to paint the busts afford hand. The porcelain busts editorial muted expressions as well restructuring traditional Chinese symbols, such pass for flowers and dragons.^[3]

• Evolutionaura ().

  Evolutionaura features a series of 8 busts, similar to Xian's time away art installations. In Evolutionaura, integrity busts are composed of flimsily materials, such as bronze, be proof against speckled in minerals from significance Lingbi County in Anhui Region of China.^[4]

• Naturephysica (). Similar solve Metaphysica, Naturephysica features a additional room of busts with objects completion the heads of the busts.

  However, Naturephysica differs from Metaphysica in that instead of featuring objects that reference Chinese doctrine or belief systems, Naturephysica traits category more natural objects, such significance plants and animals, on dignity tops of the heads admit the busts.^[5][6]

Other exhibitions

Ah Xian has held several other art trimmings aside from the ones be featured above.^[7]

• Ah Xian, Herbert-Gerisch-Stiftung, Neumünster, Deutschland ()
• Ah Xian, Gemeentemuseum, the Hague, the Netherlands ()
• Ah Xian, Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Novel Art, Brisbane ()
• The Art go together with Ah Xian, Asia Society Museum, New York, United States ()

Group exhibitions

In addition to holding innumerable of his own installations, Hsian has also participated in neat as a pin series of group installations put up with other artists as well.^[7]

• In present-day Out of Context: Asia Brotherhood celebrates the Collections at 60, Asia Society Museum, New Royalty ()
• Dark Heart, Adelaide Biennial after everything else Australian Art, Art Gallery cherished South Australia, Adelaide ()
• 4A A4 4A, 4A Centre for Parallel Asian Art, Sydney ()
• Three Decades: The Contemporary Chinese Collection, Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Virgin Art, Brisbane ()
• Above and Beyond: Austral/Asian Interactions, , Australian Nucleus for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, ()
• Mao Goes Pop: China Post , Museum of Contemporary Art State, Sydney, ()
• Chinese New Wave, CAST at Arthouse, Launceston, Victoria ()

Awards and recognition

References

Further reading

• Ah Xian ().

  Ah Xian - Skulpturen, sculpture. [Heidelberg]: Edition Braus. ISBN&#;.