CAFA ART MUSEUM
| ARTISTS | Cai Zhisong |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | 1972 |
| Place of Birth | Shenyang, Liaoning, China |
| Gender | male |
| Living & Working Place(s) |
Beijing, Beijing, China |
| Representing Gallery(ies) |
SHiNE ART SPACE (Shanghai, China) Shine Art Space (Shanghai 1) (Shanghai, China) Shine Art Space (Shanghai 2) (Shanghai, China) Gaodi Gallery (Beijing, China) Modern Art Gallery (Beijing) (Beijing, China) Modern Art Gallery (Taichung) (Taichung, China) See + Gallery (Beijing, China) |
| Public Collection(s) |
The National Art Museum of China (Beijing, China) CAFA Art Museum (Beijing, China) He Xiangning Art Museum (Shen zhen, China) Zhejiang Artmuseum (China) Chongqing art gallery (Chongqing, China) Changchun sculpture art gallery (China) |
Curriculum Vitae
| 1996 | Graduated from the central academy of fine arts sculpture |
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Mini Biography
Helpless
by Cai Zhisong
As most people of my age in China, I was a victim of mottos like “Set up a lifelong ambition”, “Realize your values”,“Struggleto change your destiny” since I was a child. With the fantasies for the future, I have been working very hard, not even once, had a bit of negligence. I was confident that all my efforts would be rewarded one day.
These so-called “ambitions” and “values” are actually no more than the advertisements for a journey to pursue “reputations” and “profits”.
Having struggled on this path for many years, in retrospect, I found myself being bruised and scarred. So Istopped and started to look around. I saw that the “fortune” that I was working so hard for, was a given for some people when they were born. But for some others, it was an unattainable goal until the time they left this world with a bitter regret even if they tried everything they could. There were others who had been kissed by Mother Fortune, and eventually saw their dreams come true, but they lost their own identity in the process and never lived in peace again. However, they were not regretful and believed that this is the significance of life. They were the successful examples for the future generations. They despised the losers and hurriedly resume their journey, without realizing when death arrives unexpectedly, it will take everything away without any mercy. They might never understand that their “success” had nothing to do with their “struggles”, but their promoting of the misconception would poison others beside themselves.
People are often confused by the ever-changing phenomenon, lost in the memories of the past and the planning for the future. They are not able to put away their hopes and fears, and settle down in the present, observing the nature of being with an eye of wisdom. So they try to get rid of things they do not like and grasp the things they are longing for. They jump into the abyss of pains without knowing it, as the moth is rushing into the flame. Few people can realize that the process of avoiding pains causes more pains. Driven by the fantasies, they are laboring and pursuing for the faulty values. They mistakeinstantaneousnessfor eternity; pains for joys, constantly fighting with the outside world, sometimes even in the price of one’s life. They may obtain temporary benefits, but the course of their life is no more than a series of comedies and tragedies.
In this fast changing world, many people have become public idols from their humble origin; many people in the high-ranking class have suddenly become prisoners. This is an endless circle, but people keep following the footsteps of the others, without knowing at the end everything will turn into dust and be lost in a gust of wind. Things happening in life are unpredictable and difficult. Like others, I have to deal with them at daily basis.
The strength of an individual life is very limitedand too weak tofight with the external power of the society. People often praise pines and cypresses for their being tall and straight, and use them as the metaphors for dignity and incorruptibility. But if we plant them into the cracks on the cliff, they will be deformed and twisted in order to survive, or they will die. No one likes to face death. This is the common outcome when the dignity conflicts with the need of surviving.
In my eyes, human history is a series of paintings of uncountable individuals struggling for life, sadness alternating with joy. I have never heard of immortal trees or immortal humans,but in their short lives, both have to endure different degrees of pains for relatively long period of time. That might be for the exchange of the smiles, which are as fragile as soap bubbles and disappear in the blink of an eye, because humannature has never been changed by the development of society or the improvement the economic status.
My heart is frequently burdened when I think of this! It is the reason that my care for life is far beyond my love for art. In a certain period of my life, I thought art was more important than anything else in the world. Many years have passed since then. Today, to me, it was only the ignorance of a youth.
When I am alone, I often feel helpless and guilty: I have already wasted 33 years of my life, but I have never been able to bring happiness and joy to people, nor speaking out with giant’s voice. I am just an ordinary being in the process ofsamsara. If I could use my meaningless skills to comfort the souls in pain or to inspire the viewers, I will be very satisfied
May 24, 2007
PUBLIC COLLECTION(16)
- Cai Zhisong
Shenyang, 1972 - Chen Kai
Shanghai, 1963 - Dai Shihe
Beijing, 1948 - Gao Lei
1980 - Jiang Ji'an
Yantai, 1967 - Liang Shuo
Tianjin, 1976 - Shao Yan
Weihai, 1962 - Song Hongyu
Hengyang, 1970 - Tang Chenghu...
1964 - Wang Li
Huhehaote, 1981 - Wu Changjian...
Tianjin, 1954 - Xia Junna
1971 - Xiao Qing
Hulunbeier, 1959 - Yan Xinsheng
1963 - Zhang Chench...
Taizhou, 1973 - Zhou Jirong
1962
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- Vernon Ah Ke...
- Mehmet Akten
- Anzaï Shigeo
- Richard Bell
- Alessandro B...
- Bu Hua
Beijing, 1973 - C.E.B.
- Cai Yuanhe
Guangzhou, 1985 - Cao Li
Guiyang, 1954 - Cao Xinli
- Cao Fei
1978 - Chang Le
- Chang Yuchen
- Che Kuai
- Chen Yan
- Chen Xinmao
Shanghai, 1954 - Chen Danqing
Shanghai, 1953 - Chen Tianzi
- Chen Man
- Chen Rong
- Chen Ping
Shantou, 1962 - Chen Wenji
Shanghai, 1954 - Chen Qi
Nanjing, 1963 - Chen Junyuan
- Chi Yinghong
Haerbin, 1972 - Chi Peng
Yantai, 1981 - Tony Cragg
1949 - Cui Xiuwen
Haerbin, 1970 - Cui Jianjun
1971 - Ding Yi
Shanghai, 1962 - Merilyn Fair...
- Fang Zengxia...
1931 - Fang Lijun
Handan, 1963 - Fang Junyi
- Fang Junbi
- Feng Mengbo
Beijing, 1966 - Feng Yuan
Shanghai, 1952 - Gao Rong
- Gao Tianxion...
- Gu Wenda
Shanghai, 1955 - Gu Yuan
- Guan Ce
Nanjing, 1957 - Guan Zilan
- Han Bing
Lianyungang, 1974 - Hao Qiang
- He Muqun
- He Jiaying
Tianjin, 1957 - He Chongyue
- Hou Dengke
- Hu Jieming
Shanghai, 1957 - Hu Wei
- Hu Xiaoyuan
- Hu Mingzhe
Beijing, 1953 - Huang Yishu
- Huang Yongpi...
Xiamen, 1954 - Huang Qinyan...
- Huang Chang
- Huang Ya
- Jason Bruges...
- Ji Jingning
Nanjing, 1957 - Jia Dan
- Jiang Jie
Beijing, 1963 - Jiang Zhi
1971 - Jiang Zhaohe
- Jiang Zidi
- Jiang Dahai
Nanjing, 1949 - Jiao Yanfeng
- Jin Jiangbo
1972 - Jin Shangyi
Jiaozuo, 1934 - Jing Yuchao
Yantai, 1971 - Kang Jianfei
Tianjin, 1973 - Aaron Kolbin
- Kuang Da
- Lei Xiaozhou
- Lei Jing
- Leng Wen
- Li Heng
- Li Geng
Beijing, 1950 - Li Chen
- Li Xiaolin
Taiyuan, 1961 - Li Yang
Taiyuan, 1976 - Li Guanru
- Li Ning
- Li Shan
1942 - Li Wen
- Li Xiaoxuan
Tianjin, 1959 - Li Yuanchen
- Liang Wenbo
- Liang Yuanwe...
Xian, 1977 - Liang Quan
Shanghai, 1948 - Lin Gang
1925 - Lin Yun
- Lin Tong
- Liu Guohui
- Liu Bo
- Liu Jin'an
1957 - Liu Ren
1980 - Liu Wei
Beijing, 1972 - Liu Xijie
Xian, 1964 - Liu Qinghe
Tianjin, 1961 - Liu Xiaobo
- Liu Wen
- Liu Dawei
1945 - Liu Xiaodong
1963 - Liu Hung
1956 - Liu Bo
Nanjing, 1966 - Liu Di
1985 - Liu Xiaofang
- Liu Bin
- Liu Zhiyi
Tianjin, 1977 - Liu Zheng
Baoding, 1972 - Liu Quanyi
1964 - Liu Liping
Beijing, 1962 - Lu Chen
Suzhou, 1935 - Luo Zhongli
Chongqing, 1948 - Lv Shengzhon...
1952 - Lv Pinchang
1962 - Ma Yanhong
- Ma Gang
Tianjin, 1962 - Ma Jing
- Ma Yujiang
- Jess MacNeil
- Miao Qilin
- Miao Xiaochu...
Wuxi, 1964 - Mo Taotao
- Mou Boyan
Jinan, 1976 - Nam June Pai...
Seoul, 1932 - James Newitt
- Ni Youyu
- Ou Yang
- Pan Yuliang
Yangzhou - Pan Gongkai
Wenzhou, 1947 - Pang Maokun
Chongqing, 1963 - Pang Xu
- Peng Xiaobo
- Ross Philips
- Julius Popp
- Qi Baishi
- Qin Guanwei
- Qiu Ti
- Qiu Zhijie
Zhangzhou, 1969 - Qiu Ying
- Qiu Xiaofei
Haerbin, 1977 - Qiu Anxiong
1972 - Qu Yan
Xuzhou, 1955 - Reas
- Marc Riboud
- Dan Roosenga...
- Sennep / Yok...
- Shang Yang
1942 - Shao Lihua
- Shao Yinong ...
Beijing - Shen Shaomin
1956 - Shen Liang
1976 - Shen Han
- Shen Ling
1965 - Shen Hongbia...
Shenyang, 1968 - Shi Guoliang
1956 - Shi Haopeng
- Song Kun
1977 - Grant Steven...
- Su Zhuangang
- Sui Jianguo
Qingdao, 1956 - Sun Bo
- Sun Chengyi
- Sun Zhijun
- Sun Yun
- Sun Liang
Hangzhou, 1957 - Tai Guojun
- Tan Genxiong
Shanghai, 1956 - Tan Ping
Chengde, 1960 - Tang Kun
- Tang Chenghu...
1964 - Tang Ran
- Tang Yongli
Tangshan, 1951 - The Kingpins
- Tian Liming
Beijing, 1955 - TseKal
- Agnes Varda
- Wang Jie
Tianjin, 1977 - Wang Yuyang
Haerbin, 1979 - Wang Weidong
- Wang Qingson...
1966 - Wang Jianwei
1958 - Wang Wunan
- Wang Dingli
- Wang Yuping
Beijing, 1962 - Wang Tingmei
- Wang Qi
1977 - Wang Yuyu
- Wang Yingshe...
Shangqiu, 1963 - Wang Chuan
Beijing, 1967 - Wang Ke
- Wang Fei
Shanghai, 1978 - Wang Zan
- Wang Tong
- Wang Qing
- Wang Tiande
Shanghai, 1960 - Wang Yigang
Qiqihaer, 1961 - Wang Dapeng
- Wang Yanru
Wuhan, 1974 - Wang Meng
- Wang Huaiqin...
Beijing, 1944 - Wang Guangle
1976 - Wang Runjing
- Wang Yingchu...
- Wang Yanping
Beijing, 1956 - Wang Guozhao
- Wang Xia
Qingdao, 1936 - Wang Xiaohui
Shijiazhuang, 1963 - Wang Guangyi
Haerbin, 1957 - Wang Longjia...
- Wei Kun
- Wei Xiaorong
Fuzhou, 1957 - Wen Bao
Beijing, 1938 - WOW
- Wu Fei
- Wu Ershan
Huhehaote, 1972 - Wu Wei
- Guanzhong Wu
1919 - Wu Bing
- Wu Yinxian
- Wu Lijuan
- Wu Yantao
- Wu Xiaohai
1972 - Wu Yi
Changchun, 1966 - Wu Zuoren
1909 - Xia Fan
- Xia Dewu
- Xia Junna
1971 - Xian Yunqian...
- Xiang Jing
Beijing, 1968 - Xiao Shufang
- Xie Hailong
- Xiong Lijun
Chongqing, 1975 - Xu Feng
1980 - Xu Heng
- Xu Bing
Chongqing, 1955 - Xu Xiangdong
- Xu Beihong
- Xu Hualing
Beijing, 1975 - Xu Chao
- Xu Hongxiang
- Song Xue
1965 - Yan Peiming
Shanghai, 1960 - Yang Fudong
Beijing, 1971 - Yang Chonggu...
- Yang Xiaoyan...
- Yang Yuan
- Yang Jinsong
Chongqing, 1971 - Yang Hongwei
Tianjin, 1968 - Yang Ju
- Yang Fan
1972 - Yang Qiong
Shenyang, 1983 - Yang Zhiguan...
Shanghai, 1930 - Yang Qi
Wuhu, 1952 - Yang Tiejun
- Yang Jing
Beijing, 1976 - Yang Yinfang
- Yao Youduo
Shanghai, 1937 - Yao Jikan
- Yao Lu
Beijing, 1967 - Ye Tiantian
- Ye Yongqing
Kunming, 1958 - Yu Hong
Beijing, 1966 - Yu Jun
- Yu Yang
- Yu Xiao
- Yuan Wu
1959 - Yuan Mingjie
- Yuan Yunshen...
Nantong, 1937 - Yuan Jia
- Yuan Yuan
Hangzhou, 1973 - Yuan Jiang
- Zeng Fanzhi
Wuhan, 1964 - Zeng Li
Liuzhou, 1961 - Zeng Yan
- Zhan Jianjun
1931 - Zhan Yan
- Zhan Wang
Beijing, 1962 - Zhang Bo
1962 - Zhang Xiaota...
Chongqing, 1970 - Zhang Yu
Tianjin, 1959 - Zhang Daqian
- Zhang Lantia...
- Zhang Dali
Haerbin, 1963 - Zhang Xin
- Zhang Xiaoga...
Kunming, 1958 - Zhang Ruizha...
- Zhao Qi
- Zhao Zhen
Beijing, 1980 - Zhao Ji
- Zhong Han
- Zhou Tianyin...
- Zhou Jirong
1962 - Zhou Changji...
Shanghai, 1950 - Zhou Sicong
1939 - Zhou Man
- Zhou Tiehai
Shanghai, 1966 - Zhu Zhen'gen...
Xuzhou, 1939 - Zhu Da
- Zhuang Naizh...
1935 - Zong Ning
EXHIBITED ARTISTS(304)
- Abifares Abi...
- Sang-soo Ahn
- Cai Meng
- Chen Kuangdi
- Gao Tianxion...
- Gao Ling
Quzhou, 1964 - Han Jing
- He Jie
- He Guiyan
1977 - Huang Kejian
- Byeong Sam J...
- Jiang Jiehon...
- Jin Jun
- Li Ning
- Li Fan
Beijing, 1966 - Liu Libin
- Jean Loh
- Lv Jingren
- Qi Peng
Hefei, 1974 - Reg Newitt
- Helmut Schmi...
- Shao Zhong
- David Small
- Song Xiaoxia
- Tan Genxiong
Shanghai, 1956 - Tang Li
- Tang Bin
- Teng Yuning
- Jan Van Toor...
- Wang Xu
- Wang Jian
Dalian, 1958 - Wang Chunche...
- Wang Huangsh...
- Wang Min
- Wang Ziyuan
- Wang Pojiao
- Wu Mo
- Xu Bing
Chongqing, 1955 - Yao Daimei
- Yin Jinan
- Yin Shuangxi
Taizhou, 1954 - Yu Ding
- Yu Ke
Chongqing, 1956 - Zhang Hui
Dalizhou, 1969 - Zhao Rue
- Zhou Ling
- Zou Yuejin
1958
COLLABRATING CURATORS(47)
- Feng Boyi
Beijing, 1960 - Gao Qianhui
- Peng De
1946 - Pi Daojian
1941 - Wang Huangsh...
- Yang Xiaoyan
Guangzhou, 1957 - Yao Daimei
- Yin Shuangxi
Taizhou, 1954 - Yu Ding
- Zhao Li
Wuxi, 1967 - Zheng Shengt...
- Zhu Qingshen...
Zhenjiang, 1957
