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 Yan Zhen
 

Yan Zhen, 严阵
"The China Story", 中国故事

Black Tie is glad to announce that due to
tremendous public demand the Yan Zhen  Exhibit
will be available for public viewing for an additional 30 days
at  the Gabarron Foundation  in NYC.
 

The Gabarron Foundation
Carriage House Center for the Arts
149 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016
September 29  to October 29, 2014
 

Recent  New York Exhibit
United Nations General Assembly .
 September 2014 during the transition
from the 68^th to the 69^th General Assembly.
 at the  United Nations, 15 - 29 September, 2014
 

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Yan Zhen Opening Reception at the United Nations

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

Yan Zhen

严阵

"The China Story"

 中国故事

Opening Reception

开幕式

United Nations , NYC
            
联合国－纽约总部

Yan Zhen speaking at the Opening Reception at the United Nations

YAN ZHEN:  AN INTRODUCTION

Yan Zhen was born in 1930 in Laiyang in China’s Shandong Province. 
Today he is a famous Chinese poet, writer, painter and calligrapher.

At the age of 15 Yan Zhen joined the Chinese liberation movement, and at the age of 24 he published his first volume of poetry.  Many of his poems were filled with both patriotism and a blend of aestheticism and romanticism and became very widely known.  He was regarded as being one of the Five Great Young Poets at the time of the establishment
of the new Chinese state.

 In 1985 he was a member of the first delegation of Chinese writers who went abroad after the end of the Cultural Revolution, and visited a number of American cities, including San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Boston and Washington.  He gave speeches at Harvard University, Stanford University, Columbia University, and several other educational institutions, introducing the early phase of China’s reform and opening up movement and building a bridge of cultural exchange between China and the outside world.  After he returned to China he published a volume, Doves and Tulips, in order to open a window on America for the Chinese people who were then enthusiastically involved
 in the early phase of the reform movement.

 Mr. Yan Zhen’s recently published long poem, The China Dream, with his deep powers of observation, his acute sense of intellectual acuity, and his combination of political theory and the fundamental beauty of poetry significantly advances today’s sense of beauty and spirituality.  This poem has received widespread approval and positive reactions in Chinese society and on the international stage.

 Up until today Mr. Yan Zhen has written over 40 personal literary works,
and the ten-volume Collected Works of Yan Zhen has also been published.

For a long time, while Mr. Yan Zhen has been working on literature he has also been painting.  He has created Chinese art works, but he has also produced many oil paintings.  His art works are different from the main-stream, and instead of pursuing life-like images of the physical world he focuses on the expression of feelings and emotions.  He combines the marvelous style of Chinese water color painting with the three dimensional realism of Western oil painting into a single form of art, and fills his art with both a sense of Western realism and Eastern mysticism.  His long poem The China Dream, and the famous oil painting he produced at the same time, The China Dream, are successful
models of this approach.

 In 2008 Mr. Yan Zhen produced the three-volume work, The Paintings of the Poet Yan Zhen, which comprises almost 400 oil paintings and water color paintings that he had completed before 2008.  Mr. Yan Zhen has had a number of successful exhibitions, and his paintings have been exhibited at the China National Art Gallery in Beijing, as well as in some international galleries in New York, Washington, and other places.

 If we say that the special characteristic of Yan Zhen’s poetry is both unrestrained beauty and graceful elegance, then Yan Zhen’s paintings have both profound vastness and dream-like imagination.  The difference between his paintings and the work of other artists is:  he does not seek the accurate portrayal of objects, but only emphasizes the expression of the heart and mind.  He has the unique spirit of Chinese water color painting and the ability of Western paintings to express three-dimensional images and he has integrated them into a distinct form of expression, and has filled his art with the Western sense of the contemporary and the Eastern sense of mysterious mysticism.  Mr. Yan Zhen’s long poem, The China Dream, and the oil painting,
The China Dream, were perfect models of this theme.

 Mr. Yan Zhen has been invited by the General Assembly of the United Nations to mount a two-week exhibition of his paintings, named The China Story, in September 2014 during the transition from the 68^th to the 69^th General Assembly.

New York, New York

You are beautiful,

a beautiful mystery.

Please tell me

under your starry sky

how many fall?

How many rise up?

Please tell me

in your maze of lights

how many dreams are there?

How many romantic myths are there?

New York, New York

you are beautiful,

a beautiful mystery.

1984            
Ink painting Solitary Plum Blossom included in the Calligraphy and Paintings Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Writers exhibit at the National Art Museum of China, which toured in Hong Kong and Macau and was organized by the China Writers Association.

1986             Ink painting Qingyin included in the The Painting Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Poets organized by   the Poetry Periodical.

1988             Watercolor The Same Origin presented in the Painting Exhibition of Poets from Both Sides of the Strait organized by the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits.

Ink painting The Day Dreaming of the Ripe Morella Rubra and his calligraphy both displayed in the The Selected Calligraphy and Painting of Contemporary Chinese Writers

1990             Ink painting The Late Autumn is collected by David Bruce of the Bruce family (David K.E. Bruce), USA.

Ink painting Sunflower collected by Douglas Paal, the head of Asian affairs at the Carnegie Foundation.

1991                Ink painting After Storm collected by American financier John Despres.

1991-1995    Watercolor The Beauty of the Withered Lotus was published by the Washington News in the USA, the international edition of the China Culture Paper and the People’s Daily.

Ink painting Li Bai Strolling collected by Marie Arana, the then literary editor of the The Washington Post

1993             Ink painting The Mysteries of the Orient collected by Carleton Swift, a former senior American official responsible for Asian affairs. 

His ink painting Naughty Little Bird acquired by the Australian Ambassador to Pakistan.

1993 – solo exhibition Modern Ink and Washing Painting Exhibition of Poet Yan Zhen in Washington.

1994                Solo exhibition Yan Zhen: The Poet’s Dream, exhibit of eight watercolors.

Solo exhibition Yan Zhen: The Dream of the Poet. Washington, DC.

1995             Solo exhibition The Painting Exhibition of Yan Zhen Poet organized by the China National Art Museum of China.

Watercolor An Unforgettable Song included in The Selected Collection of Contemporary Chinese   Painting organized by the Ministry of Culture. National Art Museum of China.

Watercolor Autumn included in the Tour Exhibition of China Poems, Calligraphy and Paintings held         by the Chinese Calligraphy and Painting Research Institute.

Calligraphy work The Lian River against the Moonlight exhibited in The Selected Calligraphy  Collection of Original Poems Among the Nation held by CCTV at the National Art Museum of China.

Solo exhibition in Beijing at the National Art Museum of China.

Watercolors The Prelude to the Spring, The Autumn Farewell, and The Spring of the Mountain Huangshan published in the Wen Yi Bao, China.

Watercolor painting An Unforgettable Song included in The Selected Collection of Contemporary Chinese Painters.

Watercolor Autumn included in The Album Picture of China Poem, Calligraphy and Paintings.

Calligraphy work Ruzipu included in Collection of Calligraphy by Contemporary Chinese Writers.

Calligraphy Pray included in the Collection of Calligraphy and Writings by Chinese Poets.

Watercolors An Unforgettable Song, The Spring Love, Farewell in Autumn, and Return published in Shanghai Novel.

1996                Watercolor Overlook published in the China Art Paper.

Watercolor Mysterious Orient published in the China Worker’s Paper.

Watercolor The Dream Seeker in Hometown published in Poetry Periodical.

1997                            Watercolor Stories in the East published in China Writer.

Watercolors The Great Wall and The Beauty of the Weathered Lotus published in the magazine Qing Ming.

1998                Watercolor included in Commemorating the Return of Hong Kong art book.

Watercolor The Little Bird in the Chinese Wisteria included in the catalogue for the Exhibition for  Commemorating 50^th Anniversary of People`s Republic of China and the Return of Macau.

Watercolor The Moon and the Night of Qingye River and The Autumn Worship Ceremony in Old Summer Palace published in The Novel.

Watercolor The Little Bird in the Chinese Wisteria was exhibited in the “ Painting Exhibition for Commemorating 50^th Anniversary of the People`s Republic of China and the Return of Macau”

Poems and Paintings of Poet Yan Zhen exhibited in Canberra, Australia.

Watercolor Testament exhibited in the exhibition “ Commemorating the Return of Hong Kong”.

Watercolors The First Snow, The Late Autumn of the North, The Discovery of the Green, Boundless, The Dream of Poet, and The Beauty of Withered Lotus published in Youth Digest.

2003                Work exhibited in Poet and Readers’ Meeting in Kraków, Poland.

2004                Works of Yan Zhen published by Beijing Rongbaozhai Publishing House.

2005             Watercolors The Moonlight Kiss and Our First Song were included in the edition Painting of Contemporary Chinese Writers.

2006                Watercolors The Lotus Pool Against Moonlight and The Waiting at Night published in China Artist.

Ink paintings Dreams in the Past, Nowadays and Return to the Original published in The People’s Daily.

Watercolor The New Blossom of Lotus published in Guangming Daily.

Watercolors Spring of the Yellow Mountain, The Water and the HuiZhou Moon, Gaochang Ruins, and The Night of Shanghai published in the magazine Anhui Literature.

Watercolor The Night of Shanghai published in the magazine
Che Tian Che Di.

2007             Watercolor The Fountain of Glory included in Painting and Calligraphy Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Writers.

Watercolor The Upcoming Dream included in China’s Most Famed Paintings and Calligraphy – Exhibition.

Watercolors Tonight Tonight, Unforgettable Memories, The Beauty of the Lotus Pond in Winter, Forever Love, Scenery in the Mirror, Window, Dream of a Village, Village Against the Sunset, and The Tiny Bud of Lotus published in Poetry Monthly.

Watercolor The Upcoming Dream included in the catalogue China’s Famous Paintings and   Calligraphy.

2008                A three volume book of paintings published, entitled
Paintings by Poet Yan Zhen.

Solo painting exhibition at the Fuller Building’s Neuhoff Gallery, New York. Almost ten of his paintings acquired by the Chairman of Shenzhen Development Bank.

2009                Poems and Painting exhibition in Shanghai.

Oil Paintings of Yan Zhen exhibition at Coco Lan Gallery in Beijing.

2010                History and Feelings – Yan Zhen Solo Exhibition
                                                         at BT Gallery of Art in Beijing.

2012             The documentary Contemporary Chinese Painter – Yan Zhen produced by the Central New Audio  and Video Publishing House.

 “The People’s Daily” publishes poem and the painting, both entitled
The China Dream.

2013                large oil painting Spring Warms the Earth published in the People’s Daily. In the same month the  China Dream painting is also published
in The Australian Magazine, alongside an interview.

2013                oil works exhibition The China Dream at the Peking-Peking Gallery
in Beijing.

2014                Ink works exhibition China in Ink at the Peking-Peking Gallery in Beijing.

Sep. 15 2014
– solo exhibition China Story at the United Nations headquarters in New York.