This autumn, the ICICLE Cultural Space welcomes international artist Ru Xiao Fan for a new exhibition, “The Seasons of Bamboo”. A homage to the beauty of forests, and to the symbolic value of bamboo in Chinese culture.
35 AVENUE GEORGE V, PARIS 8
6 OCTOBER – 15 NOVEMBER 2023
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
In Chinese culture, bamboo embodies humility, friendship, harmony, and resilience. It can be found everywhere in daily life, and is also one of the favourite subjects for Chinese artists.
For “The Seasons of Bamboo” exhibition, organised by the ICICLE Cultural Space under the curatorial direction of Pascale Le Thorel, the painter and sculptor Ru Xiao Fan presents a series of works inspired by the elegance of bamboo forests that extend upwards, reaching for light.
Paintings, watercolours, and sculptures brought together within this personal exhibition illustrate the spiritual dimension of bamboo, which, just like reed, bends but does not break, and promises perpetual change.
RU XIAO FAN
Born in Nanjing, Eastern China in 1954, Ru Xiao Fan has been living and working in Paris since 1983. He studied at the Nanjing Academy of Fine Arts and then at the Beaux-Arts de Paris. He was introduced to calligraphy at an early age, before turning to painting, watercolour, drawing, as well as sculpture. Laureate of Casa de Velázquez in 1988 and 1990, he is interested in the symbolic value of things.
In France, his works have been exhibited at the Centre Pompidou (1989), the Cernuschi Museum (2011), and the Guimet Museum (2020). Solo exhibitions dedicated to him were also held at the Shanghai Museum of Fine Arts, as part of the France-China Year (2005), and at the Hongkun Museum of Fine Arts in Beijing (2014). In 2017, the Suzhou Museum, in his native province, held a major retrospective of his work.
ARTWORKS
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LE PRINTEMPS, 2023
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L’AUTOMNE, 2022
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VOIE D’OR, N°4/8, 2022
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À SON GRÉ, 2019
CHINESE ART IN FRANCE
On 16 October, the ICICLE Cultural Space will present a very special conference on contemporary Chinese art in France. Hosted by Sébastien Gokalp, Director of the French National Museum of the History of Immigration, this panel will bring together the artist Ru Xiao Fan with Hou Hanru, Évelyne Jouanno, and Isabelle Renard, co-curators of the new exhibition at the Museum, “J’ai une famille“, dedicated to Chinese artists living and working in France.
“THE SEASONS OF BAMBOO” EXHIBITION
ICICLE CULTURAL SPACE
35 AVENUE GEORGE V, PARIS 8
6 OCTOBER – 15 NOVEMBER 2023
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