Daxi Tang - Artist Info

About Daxi Tang

  • Biography

    Tang Daxi, a national senior artist, was born in Shantou in April, 1936. He moved to Guangzhou in 1953, and began to do art design in Guangzhou Cultural Park. He started to study in Guangzhou Sculpture Studio in 1959, and then worked for the Studio. In 1981, Tang Daxi served as the director, and fours later he became the dean of the Guangzhou Sculpture Institute. In 1998 he was given the position of honorable dean.

    Tang started artistic creations from 1956 on, and began exhibiting in 1964. Works made in 1974 and made in 1977 were both selected to participate in the National Fine Arts Exhibition, which caused intensive reactions. His 1979 work brought about some criticism and general argument around the c...

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