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"title": "Modern Impressions\u2014Light and Water in Chinese Prints",
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"did_you_know": "Chen Qi is a co-founder of the Amphibism art movement in the early 1990s.",
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"description": "Chen Qi's works often show a single object up close. Here an open lotus flower set against a black ink ground evokes the image of a blossom merged into and reflecting the bright moonlight. At close view, the bulging petals defined by crisp printed lines show fine veins in relief, embossed into the paper and achieved through a blind impressed wooden block that has no ink.
Chen Qi has been awarded many prizes for his art on a national and international level, including a gold medal at the 13th National Print Exhibition in 1996 in Beijing. He has exhibited in Europe and Asia, including Paris, Geneva, Kuala Lumpur, and New Delhi.",
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"citation": "Burg, Christer von der, Bin An, Julia Frances Andrews, David Barker, Ellen Johnston Laing, Frances Wood, and Hwang Yin. The art of contemporary Chinese woodcuts [\u4e2d\u56fd\u5f53\u4ee3\u6728\u677f\u827a\u672f = Zhongguo dang dai mu ban yi shu]. London: The Muban Foundation, 2003.",
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"citation": "Chen, Qi \u9648\u7426. Shi jian jian pu: Chen Qi 1983-2013 [\u65f6\u95f4\u7b80\u8c31 : \u9648\u7426 1983-2013 = Notations of time: Chen Qi 1983-2013]. Beijing: Renmin meishu chubanshe, 2013.",
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"biography": "CHEN Qi was born in 1963 in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China. He graduated from Nanjing Academy of Fine Arts in 1987 and received a doctoral degree from Nanjing Academy of Fine Arts in 2006, Chen Qi currently serves as Professor at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. In the solo exhibition The Notation of Time \u2013 Exhibition of CHEN Qi\u2019s Art (National Museum of China, Beijing, 2013), Chen Qi attracted major international attention. The artist has been awarded many prices on a national and international level, including a Gold medal at the 13th National Print Exhibition in 1996 in Beijing. He has exhibited in Europe and Asia, including Paris, Geneva, Kuala Lumpur and New Delhi and was one of the four contemporary Chinese artists representing China at the 2019 Venice Biennale. Today his works are collected in the National Art Museum of China (Beijing), Shanghai Art Museum (Shanghai), Guangdong Museum of Art (Guangzhou), Jiangsu Art Museum (Nanjing), The British Museum (London), Victoria and Albert Museum (London), Ashmolean Museum (Oxford), and the Fukuoka Art Museum (Fukuoka). While having recently ventured into other media, Chen mostly produces monochrome prints enhanced by the subtle use of water-soluble ink, using traditional woodblock printmaking methods. His works often show a single object at close view depicting its surface texture and material qualities in the reflection of light giving his subjects a magic aura.",
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