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Born 1948 Shanghai. Known for: Painting.
Qiu Deshu, born in Shanghai in 1948, was one of the earliest artists on the mainland to receive international recognition in the post Mao era. As a child he studied traditional ink painting and seal... Read full biography
Qiu Deshu, born in Shanghai in 1948, was one of the earliest artists on the mainland to receive international recognition in the post Mao era. As a child he studied traditional ink painting and seal carving, but his interest in the traditional arts was interrupted by the Great Proletarian Cultural... Read full biography
Qiu Deshu, born in Shanghai in 1948, was one of the earliest artists on the mainland to receive international recognition in the post Mao era. As a child he studied traditional ink painting and seal carving, but his interest in the traditional arts was interrupted by the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, during which he was sent to work at the Number Eighteen Shanghai Plastics Factory. At the close of that tumultuous period, he rededicated himself to art and co-founded the Grass Painting... Read full biography
Qiu Deshu, born in Shanghai in 1948, was one of the earliest artists on the mainland to receive international recognition in the post Mao era. As a child he studied traditional ink painting and seal carving, but his interest in the traditional arts was interrupted by the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, during which he was sent to work at the Number Eighteen Shanghai Plastics Factory. At the close of that tumultuous period, he rededicated himself to art and co-founded the Grass Painting Society (Cao cao hua she ????), one of the first experimental art groups in the late 70s. However, his interest in abstraction was deemed too 'bourgeois' and he was ordered to cease painting during the Anti-Spiritual Pollution Campaign of 1983. It was... Read full biography
Qiu Deshu, born in Shanghai in 1948, was one of the earliest artists on the mainland to receive international recognition in the post Mao era. As a child he studied traditional ink painting and seal carving, but his interest in the traditional arts was interrupted by the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, during which he was sent to work at the Number Eighteen Shanghai Plastics Factory. At the close of that tumultuous period, he rededicated himself to art and co-founded the Grass Painting Society (Cao cao hua she ????), one of the first experimental art groups in the late 70s. However, his interest in abstraction was deemed too 'bourgeois' and he was ordered to cease painting during the Anti-Spiritual Pollution Campaign of 1983. It was around this time that he developed his signature style of tearing paper, called 'fissuring' (liebian ??). 'Fissuring', which in Chinese liter... Read full biography
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Qiu Deshu, born in Shanghai in 1948, was one of the earliest artists on the mainland to receive international recognition in the post Mao era. As a child he studied traditional ink painting and seal carving, but his interest in the traditional arts was interrupted by the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, during which he was sent to work at the Number Eighteen Shanghai Plastics Factory.
At the close of that tumultuous period, he rededicated himself to art and co-founded the Grass Painting Society (Cao cao hua she ????), one of the first experimental art groups in the late 70s. However, his interest in abstraction was deemed too 'bourgeois' and he was ordered to cease painting during the Anti-Spiritual Pollution Campaign of 1983. It was around this time that he developed his signature style of tearing paper, called 'fissuring' (liebian ??). 'Fissuring', which in Chinese literally means tearing (?) and change (?), indicates both the dramatic changes and breaks in his own life as well as that of a rapidly changing Chinese society.
His creative process begins with painting vivid colours on traditional Chinese xuan paper, tearing it, and then sticking selected pieces to a base layer using the techniques traditionally employed in mounting Chinese paintings. When spaces show between the mounted torn papers they read as fissures or cracks. Abrading or burnishing the paper, or mounting white paper on top of colours, produces additional effects: the final work is a sophisticated combination of painting and collage.Biography from Shanghai Hosane Auction Co., Ltd.
Qiu Deshu was born Shanghai, Jiangsu Province, China in 1948. 1968-1978, Graduated from high school, Qiu worked at a factoryThen he became an art designer at Luwan Cultural Palace. His paintings were selected by countrywide exhibitions. Currently working as a professional painter. 1985-1986, Qiu was invited to be residence artist at Tufts University. Four individual exhibitions were held successfully in United States. He finished a monumental mural in the new building of Campus Center. Solo exhibitions: 1992, FissuringLommel Gallery, Leverkusen, Germany; FissuringMaroochy and Noosa Regional Gallery, Queens land, Australia. 1996, "Fissuring-Genesis-Sublimation"Plum Blossoms GalleryHong Kong and Singapore. 2000, Exhibition at Asian Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea.2004, Fissuring-Qiu Deshu's New Paintings "Qiu Deshu Art Exhibition Room" was opened in Hai Shang Shan Art Center; Fissuring-Qiu Deshu Contemporary Chinese Art, Fletcher Art Museum, Geneva, Switzerland. 2006, Chinese Contemporary Art-Qiu Deshu Frankfurt, Germany.