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Zhang Xiaodong

Born in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, China in 1981, now based in Beijing. 

Zhang Xiaodong is an artist of handmade  book, an inheritor of intangible cultural heritage of dragon scale binding, inventor of Jinglong binding technique. At present, he focuses on book binding and more importantly, the creation of his original art series “Qian Ye (thousand leaves) ”.


He has been invited to participate in the Artist Book Exhibition in the United States, the Venice Art Biennale, Italy, the Locus Design Forum in Korea, the art Central Art Expo in Hong Kong, among others. He has held several solo-exhibitions in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Yunnan, Nanjing, Hong Kong, Italy. 

 

CCTV news channel, CCTV international channel, national treasure archives, CNN, Beijing TV and Southeast satellite TV have all made special reports of his works.


"...Zhao Xiaodong, goes beyond the simple technical data of paper cutting, using them as a pictorial medium and thus managing to create true works of art of intense and inspired beauty.

At first glance, his works leave one surprised and bewildered as they are not easily decipherable, whether they have elements of Tibetan and Buddhist culture as their subject or as, in my opinion, more pertinent abstract forms.

In fact, I find that the abstract-informal side of him is a new, brilliant, and strong path with a great visual impact and above all with a great poetic-evocative force.

Zhao Xiaodong like the great masters of the past manages, with his expressive language, to keep the tradition alive and thus, to enter into an existential union, with the silent poetry of the world..."   Vincenzo Sanfo


Born in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, China in 1981, now based in Beijing. 

Zhang Xiaodong is an artist of handmade  book, an inheritor of intangible cultural heritage of dragon scale binding, inventor of Jinglong binding technique. At present, he focuses on book binding and more importantly, the creation of his original art series “Qian Ye (thousand leaves) ”.


He has been invited to participate in the Artist Book Exhibition in the United States, the Venice Art Biennale, Italy, the Locus Design Forum in Korea, the art Central Art Expo in Hong Kong, among others. He has held several solo-exhibitions in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Yunnan, Nanjing, Hong Kong, Italy. 

 

CCTV news channel, CCTV international channel, national treasure archives, CNN, Beijing TV and Southeast satellite TV have all made special reports of his works.


"...Zhao Xiaodong, goes beyond the simple technical data of paper cutting, using them as a pictorial medium and thus managing to create true works of art of intense and inspired beauty.

At first glance, his works leave one surprised and bewildered as they are not easily decipherable, whether they have elements of Tibetan and Buddhist culture as their subject or as, in my opinion, more pertinent abstract forms.

In fact, I find that the abstract-informal side of him is a new, brilliant, and strong path with a great visual impact and above all with a great poetic-evocative force.

Zhao Xiaodong like the great masters of the past manages, with his expressive language, to keep the tradition alive and thus, to enter into an existential union, with the silent poetry of the world..."   Vincenzo Sanfo