Retrospection of Zeng Fanzhi's Solo 2008 -We Donate for Earthquake, Who Donate for Economic Crisis?

Finally, we had our farewell dinner on Tuesday evening. Yet no director nor senior staff from Seoul was present. ......

The following days in December, I am going to see off more and more co-workers, at the same time, getting more and and more work and responsibility. Everyone could accept the truth, but should be in a better way.

Life is full of frustrations. There could be natural disasters, accidents, or even terrorism. But all of those can be overcomed with cooperation and love.

It reminds me what happened in Sichuan province this May, and what we have done to relieve those suffered. I still can find an article of mine covering something about the artist donation to the quake-hit area. All of us are encountering a global difficult time at this moment, what are we gonna do for that? Is there anyone coming out to help or donate?

After "Excessive Transition Geng Jianyi Solo Exhibition" inaugurating the new space of ShanghART in Beijing, 3:00 pm, 24th May, Zeng Fanzhi's solo "Tai Ping You Xiang" unveiled to the public with four of his new works mainly in 2008."

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Tai Ping You Xiang" is a Chinese idiom with the meaning of safeness and happiness. It is also the title of one of the exhibited works, featuring the representative bush of Zeng Fanzhi, with an elephant behind."Elephant" borrows the same Chinese pronouncation of "Xiang" in "Tai Ping You Xiang".

There is fire in the air that day. Personally speaking, I don't think 3:00 pm is a quite appreciated time for opening in the hot summer of Beijing. But the hot weather would never keep away people's passion and enthusiasm from Mr. big name Zeng Fanzhi. There are only four works separately on the walls of the main exhibition hall. It is a simple layout without racking one's brains for installation like for some retrospective exhibition.Sometimes simple is rich. What makes us envious even more is the exhibiton date is from 24th May to 2nd September.

Even for the long exhibition duration, none of the four works are for sale, but just for show. Zeng Fanzhi explains that he would like this exhibition to be an opportunity for art students and young artists in China to learn and research, rather than selling any piece. It is undoubted that he can paint as many as works and sell them at a considerable price now in the market. But he refuses to do that, but concentrate so much on what he can do now for the Chinese art field and young generation.

After 5.12 Wenchuan Earthquake, Zeng Fanzhi also joined in the contribution for the quake relief effort. He created a new piece of work for donation through poly charity auction. The work is originally titled "Sky of Hope" but later on "Earthquake" which was temporarily displayed also on the opening day of his solo.

There is big love behind big disaster. There is big character behind big fame. We sincerely pray for victims in the Wenchuan earthquake. We pray for China.

Now, we pray for the world.