A little about the artist Fang:

Chen Kong Fang, better known as Fang, was bornt in the city of Tung Cheng, China in 1931. He was the third son of the engineer Han-Cheng Fang. In 1937, he started drawing with the incentive of his father and, in 1945, he started his studies in sumie and watercoloring with Chang-Zenshen. In 1951, he moved to Brazil with his family and, already in 1954, he started to study painting with master Takaoka. In 1971, he is granted Brazilian citizenship. Fang already participated as a member of the selection and award jury of the Salão Paulista de Belas Artes (1964), and was invited to lecture at the Faculdade de Belas Artes in São Paulo (1972).

Exhibitions:

1959 - São Paulo, SP - First one-man exhibition at Clube dos Artistas Plásticos de São Paulo.

1961 - São Paulo, SP - One-man exhibition at Ambiente Gallery.

1962 - Salvador, BA - One-man exhibition at Salvador Public Library.

1964 - Brasília, DF - I Salão de Arte Moderna do Distrito Federal.

1968 - Santo André, SP - Salão Municipal.

1969 - São Paulo, SP - I Salão Paulista de Arte Contemporânea.

1969 - São Paulo, SP - Exhibition at Masp (Art Museum of São Paulo).

1976 - São Paulo, SP - Exhibition at Masp (Art Museum of São Paulo).

1978 - São Paulo, SP - One-man exhibition at Cosme Velho Gallery.

1978 - São Paulo, SP - Academus Gallery.

1978 - São Paulo, SP - Panorama of the Brazilian Actual Art, at MAM/SP (Museum of Modern Art/SP)- Guest artist.

1981 - New York, USA - Artexpo.

1981 - São Paulo, SP - One-man exhibition at Dan Gallery.

1981 - São Paulo, SP - Artistas Transcendentais at MAM/SP (Museum of Modern Art/SP).

1985 - Schleswing, Germany - One-man exhibition at F. Konning Art Gallery.

1985 - New York, USA - Group exhibition at Kouros Art Gallery.

1985 - São Paulo, SP - "100 Obras Itaú" at MASP (Art Museum of São Paulo) .

1986 - Rio de Janeiro, RJ - One-man exhibition na Bonino Gallery.

1988 - Brescia, Italy - Group exhibition with Dali, Vasarely, Guttuso among others.

1990 - São Paulo, SP - "Frutas, Flores e Cores" ("Fruits, Flowers and Colors") at Ranulpho Art Gallery.

1990 - Laguna, USA - The International Museum of the 20th Century Arts - Guest artist.

1990 - São Paulo, SP - "A Música na Pintura" ("The Music in the Painting") at Ranulpho Art Gallery.

1993 - São Paulo, SP - Paintings for Ilustração do Suplemento Literário.

1993 - New York, USA - Group exhibition at Kouros Art Gallery.

1993 - São Paulo, SP - One-man exhibition at Dan Gallery and release of the book "Fang".

1993 - São Paulo, SP - Group exhibition at MAM/SP (Museum of Modern Art/SP).

1994 - Americana, SP - One-man exhibition at MAC (Museum of Contemporary Art) of Americana.

1994 - Taipe, Taiwan - One-man exhibitionl at Contemporary Art Gallery of Taipe.

1995 - Curitiba, PR - Group exhibition at Waldir Assis Art Gallery.

1995 - São Paulo, SP - Brazil-Japan Art at Mokiti Okada Foundation.

1996-97 - São Paulo, SP - Exhibition of the Brazilian-oriental guest contemporary artists.

1997 - São Paulo, SP - Museu Banespa.

1997 - São Paulo, SP - VI Mostra de Arte Contemporânea at FIEO.

1998 - Guest artist for the cover of Paletas 98 (Participation of 100 artists).

1999 - Shangai Art Fair (Invited by Hwa's Gallery).

1999 - Hong Kong, HK - One-man exhibition in Hong Kong at Alisan Fine Art Gallery.

1999 - Curitiba, PR - Panorama of the Brazilian Art.

2004 - São Paulo, SP - Fang & Friends - Drawings e Serigraphies at Espaço Cultural Conjunto Nacional (invited artists: Fang, Aldemir Martins, Antonio Peticov, Antonio Poteiro, Claudio Tozzi, Gustavo Rosa, Inos Corradin, Martins de Porangaba, Rubens Gerchman e Sonia Ebling).

Awards:

1957 - Rio de Janeiro, RJ - Salão Nacional de Belas-Artes - Bronze Medal.

1960 - São Paulo, SP - Salão Paulista de Belas-Artes - Acquisition Award.

1961 - São Paulo, SP - Salão Paulista de Belas-Artes - Bronze Medal.

1962 - São Paulo, SP - Salão Paulista de Belas-Artes - Small Silver Medal.

1967 - São Paulo, SP - Salão Paulista de Belas-Artes - Big Silver Medal.

1968 - São Paulo, SP - Salão Seibi - Big Silver Medal.

1968 - Piracicaba, SP - Salão de Arte Contemporânea de Santo André - Silver Medal.

1969 - São Paulo, SP - Salão Seibi - Small Gold Medal.

1969 - São Paulo, SP - II Salão de Paisagem Paulista - Silver Medal.

1978 - São Paulo, SP - Salão Brasil-Japão - Award.

1979 - São Paulo, SP - Salão Brasil-Japão - Acquisition Award.

1991 - São Paulo, SP - Salão Bunkio - First Special Award to the Trip to Japan.

Compliments:

1981 - São Paulo, SP - Short biography film "O Caminho de Fang" (Fang's Path).

1984 - Participation of 108 collectors to release the book "Fang" with 144 pages at the Dan Gallery and written by Theon Spanudis. Compliment "40 years of painting" with exhibition at the same gallery.

1989 - "Honor Artist " at XVII Exposição de Arte Contemporânea, Chapel Art Show.

1993 - Merit of "Grau Cavaleiro" granted by the Brazilian President Sir Itamar Franco.

2004 - São Paulo, SP - Creation of Cultural Institute Fang.

2004 - Lançamento do Vídeo de arte "Chen-Kong Fang" pelo Instituto Cultural Fang no Espaço Unibanco de Cinema. Vídeo produzido e dirigido por Pedro Paulo Mendes.

2005 - Grande Festa dos Gigantes 2005 em Blumenau / SC. Homenagem especial com Troféu Fang no Bela Vista Country Club.

The Museum of Contemporary Art of São Paulo has thirty paintings of Fang. His works are also exposed at the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo and at the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo. Several of his works are in private collections in Brazil and around the world.

What the critics say about Fang:

What impresses on these works of Fang is that he presents us with that kind of conciliation with mastery of the single actual unity as in the figure plan or abstract conotation, (...) a master's drawing (...). This Chinese brings us one more important contribuition.
Geraldo Ferraz, "O Estado de São Paulo" Newspaper, July 7th, 1961.
 
(...) At he mature of his pictorial compositions - all structured by a crafty consciousness - always flows the artist humbleness to reveal all the beauty of his poetic soul (...)
Quirino da Silva, "Diário da Noite" Newspaper, July 9th, 1961
 
(...) At the whites and greys of Fang, there is an inexhaustive richness of subtileness tones (...). Fang brought for the Brazilian and world art, at the highest aesthetic level of modern painting, the spiritualness of this ancient culture, this vast and remote country that is the millenary China, a beautiful and valuable contribution for future global culture.
Theon Spanudis, extracted from the book "Fang", 1984.