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Mystic World - Works of Cha Guojun
Art Beatus Exhibition Space
35-39 Graham Street, Ground Floor, Central, Hong Kong
( Near Hollywood Road and Lyndhurst Terrace )
Exhibition Duration: October 3 to 26, 2007
Artist will attend the opening ceremony from 6:00 to 8:00pm
on October 3, 2007 (Wednesday)
Press Release
Signs and symbols on oracle bones and ancient Chinese bronze vessels, calligraphic characters on signature seals and stones, abstract displays of ink and colour splashes in Chinese paintings…. all these have been turned into components and integral parts in the paintings of Cha Guojun.
Cha, a veteran Chinese-American painter, describes his paintings as his means of delineating stories of the mysticism of the East through the application of contemporary abstract art of the West. His paintings, strong and distinct in characteristics of their own, are universal yet organically eastern.
The artist has lived, taught and painted in the United States for over twenty years. He is fluent in the artistic language of the west but his ethnic roots run deep. In recent years, Cha often returns to Shanghai to work and teaches a Master of Fine Art programme at the Shanghai University.
Cha has gone through different stages in his artistic pursuit, starting off as a realism painter in Shanghai and progressed onto abstracts after moving to the United States in 1985. He has held numerous exhibitions around the world and hundreds of his works have been widely collected in the United States, Canada, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Europe.
The paintings in Mystic World, which will be on show at Art Beatus Gallery in October, are embodiments of the symbols and techniques from both the east and the west manipulated and displayed at the will of the artist.
Art Beatus Gallery’s new exhibition space is located at 35-39 Graham Street, Ground Floor, Central, Hong Kong (near Hollywood Road and Lyndhurst Terrace). For further information about this exhibition or for interviewing the artist, you can e-mail us at dyiu@artbeatus.com.hk or call either Dominic Chan at 2522-1138 or Josephine Hau at 2526-0818.
Gallery hours: Mon. thr. Saturday, 11:30am-7:30pm, close on Sundays & public holidays.
Cha Guojun
1943 Born in Kunshan City Suzhou, China
1967 Graduated from Shanghai Drama Institute, China
1984-1985 Lecturer, Oil Painting Department, Institute of Fine Art, Shanghai University, China
1985-1988 Visiting Scholar, Department of Studio Arts, University of Minnesota, USA
1988-1989 Guest Professor, School of Fine Art, University of Winnipeg, Canada
Current
Professional artist
Lecturer, Master of Fine Art, Shanghai University, China
Guest Professor, Shanghai Drama Institute, China
Solo Exhibitions
2007 Art Beatus Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2006 Yibo Gallery, Shanghai, China
2005 Peter Bartlow Gallery, Chicago, USA
2003 Peter Bartlow Gallery, Chicago, USA
2002 China Art Museum, Beijing, China
Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Moorthesd State University, Moorthead, USA
2000 J.Gallery, Shanghai, China
Kavanaugh Art Gallery, Iowa, USA
1999 Kavanaugh Art Gallery, Iowa, USA
1998 J.Gallery, Hong Kong
1994 G.G. Rein Gallery, Minnesota, USA
1992 Initiator Gallery, San Diego University Museum, USA
Thomas Babeok Gallery, San Diego, USA
1990 C.G. Rein Gallery, Minnesota, USA
1989 C.G. Rein Gallery, Minnesota, USA
1988 University of Manitoba Museum, Canada
Art School Showroom, Minnesota University, USA
C.G. Rein Gallery, Minnesota, USA
1987 C.G. Rein Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
1986 Museum Gallery, University of St.John's, USA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2004 Art Chicago, USA
Liu Haisu Art Gallery, Shanghai, China
2003 Art Beatus Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
ARCO International Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid, Spain
San Francisco International Art Exposition, USA
1999 Dyansen Art Renaissance, Chicago, USA
1998 Exhibition of 100 Elite Artists, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
1997 1st Shanghai International Art Exposition, China
Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, USA
1996 Shanghai / Germany - Fine Art Exchange Exhibition (Toured in five cities, in Germany), Shanghai Art Museum, China
1992 Hong Kong International Art Fair, Hong Kong
1991 13th New York International Art Fair, USA
Miami International Art Fair, USA
1989 Art Chicago, USA
Los Angeles International Art Fair, USA
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