About

Zhang Fan was born in 1975 in Qingdao, Shandong Province. He received his Bachelor’s Degree (1998) and Master’s Degree (2002) from the Department of Printmaking in Central Academy of Fine Arts, China. Now he lives and works in Beijing. His new works “Improvisation” embody the idea that the gestures present in “writing” are reflected directly by the traces of lines on the tableaux. Traces originating in the most primitive gestures of writing rapidly give the work a coordinated sense of rhythm, detail, texture and emotion. These elements instantaneously emerge in the process of “writing” and …