by Liu Chang
BEIJING, Sept. 12 -- Fans of contemporary U.S. artist
Julian Schnabel's work, shown in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong in 2007, will
get a chance to see more. A print exhibition of his work opened here Saturday at
the Chang Art Gallery in Beijing's 798 Art District and will run until November
7. The show is a featured exhibition of the Beijing 798 Art Festival.
The presentation is part of Schnabel's Art Work Asia
Tour, which began in June at the Watergate Gallery, an associate gallery of
Chang Art, in Seoul, South Korea. A total of 39 prints produced since 1983 are
debuting in the tour. The works range from etchings, engravings and lithographs,
to screen and velvet prints.
Schnabel is both an artist and filmmaker. He is best
known as being one of the major new forces in the art world in New York in the
1980s and as one of the most representative figures in contemporary art. Famous
for his "plate paintings," or large-scale works set on broken ceramic plates, he
introduced various new materials and techniques to traditional prints and
developed his own style of printmaking. Schnabel's work is said to exhibit great
compositional energy and easily combines both traditional printmaking techniques
with new materials.
(Source: GlobalTimes.cn)
