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Jiqun Chen

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Born in 1947, he was admitted to the Affiliated Middle School of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1963.
In 1967, he jumped the queue in Mandu Baolige,
East Ujumchin Banner, Inner Mongolia, and returned to Beijing in 1980.
In the 1980s, he became a professional painter. In the 1990s, he
commuted between sketching in pastoral areas and holding exhibitions abroad.

From 1992 to 2019, He went abroad to hold exhibitions and study Tours through Malaysia and Hong Kong to broaden  horizon.
He went to Malaysia, Singapore, Mongolia, France, Thailand, Russia, Korea, Japan and Italy, and want to go to Germany, the United States, Denmark... Currently want to go to "one country, two systems" Taiwan.

 

Resume of Art
1974  Inner Mongolia Art Exhibition
In 1984, Chinese National Art Museum went to Japan for art exhibition
1984  Beijing Art Exhibition
1985  Beijing Art Exhibition
1985  Central Academy of Fine Arts Xu Beihong studio exhibition
1986  Beijing Art Exhibition
1986  Central Academy of Fine Arts Xu Beihong studio exhibition
1987  Beijing International Art Garden Spring Festival oil painting exhibition
1988  Central Academy of Fine Arts Xu Beihong studio exhibition

1989  Toronto, Canada Xu Huihong studio teachers and students exhibition
1990  Singapore Xu Beihong studio teachers and students exhibition
1991  Xu Beihong Studio exhibition, Gao Ge Gallery, Wang Fu Hotel, Beijing
1992  Oil painting exhibition by Chen Jiqun in Penang, Malaysia
1992  Singapore Chen Jiqun oil painting exhibition
1993  Malaysian realist Trio Exhibition
          Central Academy of Fine Arts gallery Chen Jiqun oil painting exhibition
          Hong Kong Chen Jiqun oil painting exhibition
1995  Chen Jiqun Exhibition in Penang, Malaysia
1996  Beijing Central Academy of Fine Arts Affiliated High School "Trinity Art Exhibition"
1997  Malaysia Shao Jingkun, Chen Jiqun, Li Kai three-person exhibition
1998  Beijing Central Academy of Fine Arts Affiliated High School "Trinity Art Exhibition"
1999  "Echo Steppe Three Men Exhibition", National Art Museum of China, Beijing
2001  Oil painting exhibition by Chen Jiqun in Penang, Malaysia
2003  Beijing Wenbo Dream Gallery "Into the Steppe - Chen Jiqun, Jinba.Zamous and Saihanna " Painting exhibition"
2019  Beijing Cultural Palace of Nationalities "Echo Steppe Five People Exhibition"

 

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1963 High School attached to the Academy of Fine Arts


1968 Inner Mongolia


1991 Mongolia


1992 Malaysia


1992 Malaysia


1992 Malaysia

1992 Malaysia


1992 Malaysia

1992 Singapore

1992 Paris


1992 Paris


1993 Malaysia


1993 Malaysia


1993 Hong Kong


1997 Malaysia


1998 Inner Mongolia

 


1998 Inner Mongolia

1999 Beijing

2000 Inner Mongolia

2001 Malaysia
 
Beijing 2003
 

2003 Beijing

2003 Inner Mongolia

2005 Inner Mongolia

2008 Beijing


Este Ujumchin Banner 2009
 


Beijing 2010


Classmates in 2013

 


2013 Beijing Studio

2015 Mongolia

2017 Beijing
 

2018 Mongolia

2019 Italy

 

 


2019 Italy

2019 Italy

2019 Beijing

 
   

 

 

 

 

 

 


In 1999, he participated in the Once Prairie three-man exhibition.
In 2000, he founded the website ( www.jiqunchen.com and www.cnsteppe.com ) and engaged in grassland painting and ecological protection work.
In 2015, he was awarded "Advanced Cultural Worker Award" of Mongolia.
Currently, he has several websites and works with environmental ngos in charge of the grassland special fund, Nomadic Painting and environmental protection.

Media reports:
Central Video Mongolian channel: Chen Jiqun nomadic between painting and environmental protection

 

 

  Artworks Background

 

 

 

 


 

The Solitary Landscape of Chen Jiqun  

Dr. Zakaria Ali
Associate Professor, U.S.M.
Ph.D.( Harvard U. )

 

Chen Jiqun Mongolian Landscape resemble the open sea, with the horizon forever receding. Chen Jiqun treats such vastness as an integral component in his composition, adjusting it to suit his needs, either at eye-level, below or beneath it. The horse serves as a scale with which to measure the vast breathtaking grassland that is brutal in the winter and unforgiving in the summer. To capture these elemental qualities, Chen Jiqun intrudes only minimally. He places a peasant boy leaning on a pole while his horse takes a drink; a girl in her ethnic costume resting her arm on a fence; a stallion displaying her mane that resembles the curls of a lady's hair; a dirt path leading to an isolated farm; a stream winding across the treeless plains. Common things pretending to be nothing else, they emerge in a given vignette unobtrusively, as quiet as the breeze in spring.

The inhabitants exert their presence like a quail stepping out of the marsh The inhabitants exert their presence like a quail stepping out of the marsh, cautiously. They refrain from competing with the configurations of undulating mountains, the moist laden clouds, and the sky, the recurrent leitmotifs that evanescent quality, a poetic softness of localized tonal blending. In "Shepherd", for example, the horse is made to blend with the background, suggesting its spirit is spirit is one with that of nature, symbolized by the ubiquitous spread of whiteness. The characters are withdrawn into their own inner space, brooding, resigning. Like prairie peoples of other continents, they are tough, self-reliant, and solitary.

The harshness of prairie life is best exemplified by "Out of Mongolian Tent", "Young Mongolian", and "Camel" in which the unpredictability of the weather is hinted by the many-layered clothing and the ever faithful family dog, coded in their survival manial is reliance on domestic animals, rather than on man, a theme these works explore with such consummate skill.

(June 1, 2001)

 

 

 

 

video1998
Second Hometown - Inner Mongolia TV Station (August 1998, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of XiMeng Educated youth jumping the queue)

 

 

Painter devotes artistry to protecting environment in Inner Mongolia

 

Nomadic crusader(2012)

 

 
 

 

The Vatican City  2019

 

The Italian Republic.  Roma City Museum  2019

Paiting in Florence  2019
 

 

In 1998, I sketched in Mandubaolige, East  Ujumchin Banner:            

 

 

Paiting in Beijing  2019

 

 

 Artshow

 

 "Echoing Steppe Art Show 2019" Chen Jiqun Works Catlogue:

 

 


 

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