Rao Fu
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| Born | February 7, 1978 Beijing |
| Nationality | Chinese |
| Citizenship | China |
| Occupation | Artist |
Rao Fu (chinese 傅饶) was born February 7, 1978 in Beijing. He is a Chinese artist living and working in Germany and Asia.
Life and education
Rao Fu studied from 1999 to 2001 design at Tsinghua University in Beijing and from 2002 to 2010 painting and graphic arts as well as art therapy at Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. During his undergraduate studies, he tackled amongst other things the traditional painting methods of Dresden School. In 2008, he became master student at Prof. Ralf Kerbach.[1]
During his studies, Rao Fu received the DAAD-scholarship of fine arts in 2006 and from 2008 to 2012 the grant of Heinrich Böll Foundation. In the following, he was awarded a scholarship of the cultural donation of the Free State of Saxony in 2014 and additionally the ,Heimspiel-Stipendium’ sponsored by the cotton mill Leipzig of the cultural donation of Free State of Saxony in 2016. In 2020, he was honoured with the grant ,Denkzeit’ also sponsored by the cultural donation of the Free State of Saxony.[2]
Work
The work of Rao Fu symbolizes a combination between the different cultures and philosophies of East and West. He creates his own language of colour and forms out of the wide range of traditional Landscape Painting, calligraphy and European painting, especially the Dresden School, as well as Edvard Munch, Peter Doig and Daniel Richter. Like this, he expands the Saxon Neo-expressionism with Asian components.[3]
In his paintings, many different techniques can be found, for instance a combination of traditional calligraphy and colour-energetic aspects and figural painting. Topics like dream and reality, mixed worlds and Rao Fu’s personal life are playing a big role in his work. The atmosphere is intensified by an expressive play of colours opening free spaces for the observer with pyrrhoorange and dark blue taking on an increasingly important role. He uses the scattering of gaze by targeted directing and diverting as a main element. Also, he works more and more on large formats with figure and shades of colour moving to the foreground. His art combines European and Chinese culture as well as their specific way of thinking being meanwhile open for global discourse. It invites to initiate reflection and debates over cultural hybridity.[4]
Collections
- National Museum for History and Art Luxembourg (MNHA), Luxembourg [5]
- Arts Foundations of Dresden State Art Collections, Dresden [6]
- Dresden City Art Gallery[7]
- Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei [8] [9]
Publications
- Rao Fu: Infinitrace. Andre Lee, Monica Demattè, Huang Chien-Hung, Wang Rui-Xu Mind Set Art Center ISBN 978-986-94868-8-0
- Rao Fu: Follow Wind, Junge Kunst e.V., Andreas Schmid and Constanze von Marlin, Wolfsburg, ISBN 978-3-7356-0033-2
- Rao Fu: Follow Wind, ARTSCAPE Contemporary Art Luxembourg, ISBN 978-2-919943-21-0
References
- ↑ [1]. ArtatBerlin
- ↑ [2]. Galerie Eigenheim
- ↑ [3]. ArtatBerlin
- ↑ Tannert, Christoph; Gisbourne, Mark. Dissonance. Berlin: Dr. Cantz’sche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG. p. 96. ISBN 978-3-96912-060-6.
- ↑ [4]. National Museum for History and Art Luxembourg (MNHA)
- ↑ [5]. Arts Foundation of Dresden State art collection
- ↑ [6]. Dresden City Art Gallery
- ↑ [7]. infinitrance, Kuando Museum of Fine Arts
- ↑ [8]Taipei Times
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