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Shan Weijun was born in China’s Jiangsu province. In 1987, he graduated from the Department of Visual Arts (also called visual arts), Wuxi Light Industry University (now Jiangnan University) in China. Then in 1993 he graduated from the department of visual arts at the University of Paris 8 in Paris. And in 2001 he created an art studio in Saint-Maur-des-Fosses. Today, he still lives and works in Paris.
Artist Shan Weijun attaches great importance to the purity of expression in his paintings. On the surface, he depicts the French countryside, but the underlying theme of the image is Jiangnan, China. He skillfully uses traditional Chinese painting tools such as rice paper, brush and ink – and meticulously draws on the paper. The accumulation of different shades of lightly applied ink creates a rich and subtle suburban landscape. Weijun compares the creative technique of painting each day in the studio in this quiet, slow, dot-by-dot manner to “a thousand dots.” This type of pointillism is reminiscent of the impressionist pointillism that flourished in France in the late 19th century. But the difference is that the artist uses only grayscale ink.
The subjects of most of Shan Weijun paintings are mountains, stones, trees and clouds. These static landscape presents a kind of detached artistic conception, beyond the attachment to the material world. It causes the viewer’s gaze to remain on the image, allowing him to enter the realm of contemplation. This is probably closely related to the artist’s choice of “meditative style”. The work may seem simple but it is actually a more complex masterpiece of ink painting that combines Chinese culture, French sentiment, and contemporary aesthetics. “Thousands and thousands of dots,” as the artist Shan Weijun explains, is his personal Zen retreat method.
In Shan Weijun’s own words:
“Silence is the foundation of simplicity. My art is rooted in Eastern cultural identity and artistic practices. By blending time and space, understanding the spirit of ink and wash, responding with my inner heart to the painting, I find the ultimate and pure escape.”
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