Deng Wushu
China, 1968
Artist's works
Artist Introduction
bamboo
Introduction and Experience
With a rudimentary understanding and reverence for classical Eastern culture, I recently selected some common elements and symbols of classical Chinese culture: ancient porcelain vases, the Forbidden City, the Imperial Garden, lotus, bamboo, flowers, toads, etc. I combined and arranged these symbols according to my initial intention, forcing myself to abandon and ignore the painting rules and techniques I had already mastered as much as possible, treating every objective detail with the reverence of a baby learning to walk, and creating a series of works with an extremely calm and almost clumsy method.
Exhibitions and Awards
"Mysterious Orient" Deng Wushu Exhibition, 2011, New York Art Fair, Rainbow Gallery.
2011 Alessandria Contemporary Art Collection Exhibition, Italy
"Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Oil Paintings" at the Venezuelan Museum of Contemporary Art, 2011, by the Ministry of Culture of China
2011 New York Contemporary Art Fair
2010 Art Center of the University of Kasikorn, Indonesia: "Fantasy & Happiness" themed exhibition
2010 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair
"East-West": The First Chinese Art Exhibition in San Diego, California, USA, 2010
"Through the Eyes of a Child" Deng Wushu Exhibition, 2009, Venoria Art Center, Beijing
"Deng Wushu—Landscape," 2009, Byron C. Cohen Gallery For Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
The 2009 Cross-Strait Oil Painting Talents Invitational Exhibition, held at the National Taichung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan.
Melvin A., Florida Museum of Art, 2008
Art Basel Miami Beach, 2008
2001 China Western Ethnic Customs Painting Exhibition
First solo oil painting exhibition in 1990, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute Exhibition Hall