Sanyu's Solo Exhibition in Taiwan
Date: Jun 19- Jul 6, 2010
Venue: Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei, China
Sanyu’s Solo Exhibition at Tina Keng Gallery is the first curated solo exhibition for the artist in China Taiwan since the previous show of almost a decade ago. There are near 50 exhibits of oil paintings, watercolors, and sketches, which include classics from different periods of Sanyu’s creative life, such as Cat and Birds, the oil painting sold for 42.1 million HK dollars at Christie’s auction in 2009 that also broke the world record of Sanyu’s work on the art market.
Sanyu’s works combine qualities of Chinese literati painting and Western modern art, to become his unique style of expression. In his early days in Paris, Sanyu became acquainted with the romantic atmosphere of Paris, and he developed a basic palette of pink, white, and black to form elegant and minimalist imageries. His expressions of calligraphic lines depicted joyfulness. Since 1925, Sanyu exhibited his works regularly at the Paris Salons and in various art galleries. By the 1930’s, Sanyu was recognized as one of the art contemporaries with his illustrations in the French edition of The Poems of Tao Tsien.
His graceful, distinctive painting style, with its authentic oriental manner captured the attention of Parisian art collector, Henri-Pierre Roche, and won praises from artists of his generation. During the war period between 1930’s to 1940’s and the decline of family fortune forced Sanyu into depression. Although his carefree characteristic remained, his works started to own a vague melancholy. In the later years of his life, the impoverishment was projected with nostalgia onto his paintings, when mighty creatures appear tiny and isolated in vase grounds, and the plants in the pots and vases seem frail and sparse, which display the artist’s state of mind at the time.
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