- The Beverly Arts
Author: Joey Zhou
Translation from Chinese: Joey Zhou
Music YouTube link: https://youtu.be/cPh3Rm9IaJM
Note: In 1986, I was in Chengdu and met about 30 American teachers from the English Language Institute called ELIC . While I was there, I bought some red pajamas. On September 15th, 1986 when they left, I wrote this poem "Red Pajamas". Youth is willfulness and brute force! In fact, the process of disappearing is also beautiful.
I
have some red pajamas
Like the reflection of the setting sun in the river...
A gust of wind
blown away my pajamas
My youth goes with the wind...
If
towards dusk
into the sunset
Can't find my pajamas either,
Should I go on into the darkness and wait for another dawn？
Written on campus on September 15, 1986.
LABA Blue-chip Artist Jiannan Huang
Jiannan Huang is a LABA Blue-chip Artist and a Top Ten Artist on the Hurun Art List. His expertise is in contemporary oil painting as well as traditional Chinese painting. Mr. Huang is the recipient of the Gold Medal of the Global Public Welfare Alliance and was awarded the title of His Royal Highness "Count" by the Indonesian Royal Family. Since 2015, he has been a Top Ten Artist on the Hurun China Art List, ranking fourth in 2019, and third in 2020. Mr. Huang was ranked 21st on the "Top 500 Global Contemporary Artists" list at Artprice, the authoritative website of European and American art.
Painting by Jiannan Huang
Jiannan Huang - Hurun Art List 2020
Hurun China Art List 2020
Painting by Jiannan Huang
Painting by Jiannan Huang
In his early days, Huang walked more than 38,000 kilometers for nine years, traveling north and south, going deep into desert villages and towns to experience nature and paint from life. From 2009 to 2020, Huang traveled to France and lived in Paris, France for 11 years, to study and exhibit his art. His artwork was recognized by two heavyweights in the French art world, art critic and art historian Gérard Xuriguera and President of the French Artists Association, Rémy Aron, who both wrote articles about him.
Hurun Art List Top Painter Jiannan Huang at his studio in Beijing, China
In 2020, Mr. Huang won the National Advanced Figure of Learning from Lei Feng, and was awarded the "Top Ten Influential People in National Philanthropy and Charity" for two consecutive years, in 2019 and 2020. He is a part-time professor and researcher at the Shenzhen Graduate School of Tsinghua University, Director of the Chinese Traditional Culture Promotion Association, Member of the Creative Center Committee of the Chinese Artists Association, Member of the French National Artists Committee, Honorary Chairman of the French Oriental Culture and Art Association, Art Advisor of the World Low Carbon City Alliance, France Jiny City Gold Medal Honorary Citizen, Senior Advisor for The Beverly Arts in the United States, and winner of the first Los Angeles Beverly Arts (LABA) International Art Festival Blue-chip Artist Award in 2021. Huang is also an Honorary Member of the Royal Society of St. George, and the first Asian artist to be awarded an honorary membership.
Painting by Jiannan Huang
Paintings by Jiannan Huang
Painting by Jiannan Huang
In 2017, Jiannan Huang signed a contract with the long-established ROSSINI auction house in France. The successful sales of his artwork at auctions of Chinese artwork and oil paintings established his presence in Europe and America, making him one of the very few Chinese artists to have successfully entered the international auction market.
Painting by Jiannan Huang
Paintings by Jiannan Huang
On March 11, 2022, the "Green Olympics International Cultural and Art Exchange Exhibition" was hosted by the China International Cultural Exchange Center and jointly organized by Beijing National Painting and Calligraphy Culture Group. The welcome ceremony was held in the Beijing Olympic Tower where the ceremony for the Beijing Winter Olympics Torch was held. Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee, sent a letter to express his congratulations to Mr. Huang on the success of the exchange exhibition, "Together for a Shared Future Together, Green Olympics!" Mr. Huang was also the "Cheers for the Olympics" Overseas Art General Consultant, and "China's international cultural and artistic exchange messenger."
Participants at the Green Olympics International Cultural and Art Exchange Exhibition in Beijing, China
Jiannan Huang
The attendees included Yu Zaiqing, Vice Chairman of the International Olympic Committee and Vice Chairman of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Organizing Committee, Sha Zukang, a well-known diplomat and former Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, Xu Honghai, Secretary-General of China International Cultural Exchange Center, Vice President of the China European Union Association Secretary-General Song Jingwu, former Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Culture, former Director of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, Chairman of China Cultural Relics Protection Foundation Li Xiaojie, Chairman of China Chinese Education Foundation Ren Qiliang, Chairman of China Popular Literature and Art Research Association Chu Shui, Vice President of China Badminton Association Chairman, former badminton player, World Champion Tang Jiuhong, 2004 Athens Olympics, 2008 Beijing Olympics badminton women's singles champion Zhang Ning, Chinese women's taekwondo athlete, World Champion, Olympic champion Wu Jingyu, Chinese women's basketball player, former national women's basketball player Zheng Haixia , and other well-known figures in the cultural, art and sports circles.
Jiannan Huang participating in a ceremony
Painting by Jiannan Huang
Painting by Jiannan Huang
Painting by Jiannan Huang
Cynthia Viera and Pablo San Jose´ of PSJM, an artist duo/art collective, at the opening of their "American Democracy" exhibition in Santa Monica
Santa Monica, California, USA. 14th April, 2022. The "American Democracy" art exhibition by PSJM opened today at Building Bridges Art Exchange located in Bergamot Art Center in Santa Monica, California. PSJM is an art collective formed by artists Cynthia Viera and Pablo San Jose´, who are originally from Spain, and are now based in the Canary Islands. They present themselves as an “art brand” or "art collective", and define this as appropriating the procedures and strategies of advanced capitalism to subvert their symbolic structures.
Attendees view the paintings on exhibition by PSJM (art collective) at Building Bridges Art Exchange
The "American Democracy" exhibition features an installation of 59 paintings that have been painted to display the U.S. presidential election results each year in a geometric format. They refer to this as "social geometry", a field within artistic abstraction painting that can provide a visual history of events in a painterly manner. The research for the project was rigorous, a project where infography and American color-field painting tradition came together with a sociological study and critical reflection.
The team-brand has been included among the 100 most representative artists of International Political Art in Art & Agenda: Political Art and Activism, (Berlin: Gestalten, 2011). The works of PSJM have been shown in numerous international exhibitions such as Beyond the Tropics, in the context of 56th Venice Biennale (2015), Hic et Nunc, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C. (2014), One Shot!, Museu Brasileiro da Escultura, São Paulo (2014), Off Street, A Foundation, London (2009), The Real Royal Trip… by the Arts, PS1-MOMA, New York (2003, in collaboration with El Perro y Aitor Méndez), and others in Spain: Prophetia, Fundación Miró, Barcelona (2015) or PIGS, Artium, Vitoria (2016).
Pablo San Jose´ of PSJM, TV host Joey Zhou, and Cynthia Viera of PSJM
LABA Blue-chip Artist Jiannan Huang joined in by video conference.
TV host Joey Zhou invited LABA Blue-chip Artist Jiannan Huang to meet the artists and view the exhibition by video conference from his studio in Beijing, China. Jiannan Huang is one of the world's finest artists, specializing in Chinese ink and oil painting. He is ranked third on the 2020 Hurun China Art List and 19th on the Hurun Global List with art sales of $29 million. Huang ranked second on Artron.Net's 2020 Art Auction Market Ranking. Artron.Net is the world’s leading Chinese art website and China’s largest art service platform
Joey Zhou and Marisa Caichiolo, founder of Building Bridges Art Exchange, interact with Jiannan Huang
Mr. Huang holds several positions, Director of the Chinese Traditional Culture Promotion Association, member of the French National Artists Committee, art consultant for the World Low Carbon Cities Alliance, and France's Jiny City Gold Medal Honorary Citizen. He was awarded the title of "Earl" by the Indonesian Royal Family, and the "Royal Sacred Knight of Constantine" from Italy. In 2020, Mr. Huang was invited by the LABA International Art Festival Organizing Committee to participate in the LABA International Art Festival as a Blue-chip artist. In 2021, Last year, he was awarded an honorary membership into the Royal Society of St. George (RSSG), California Branch. On March 17th, 2022, the RSSG awarded Mr. Huang the "Master of Arts" Award, and LABA named March at "Jiannan Huang Month."
Pablo San Jose´ of PSJM, Cynthia Viera of PSJM , and TV host Joey Zhou
Joey Zhou at Building Bridges Art Exchange
Joey Zhou and Marisa Caichiolo at Building Bridges Art Exchange