Chinese artists by  Michel Nau - Yuan Yanwu  袁燕舞  
 

 

 
 

 

 
 

Yuan Yanwu

 
 

袁燕舞

 
     
 

Yuan Yanwu  袁燕舞  -  Out of reach Shanghai  1989 / 2010

 
     
 
 

Biographie

   

1976

Yuan Yanwu  袁燕舞 was born on February 10th in Yan Si, Anhui Province  China.

 

Her family came from very different social backgrounds, country people on her father's

 

side, intellectual and cultured on her mother's side. This difference was to have a

 

considerable effect on her.

   

1979

Up until the age of eight, she led a very simple life, in the country.

   

1984

She cut herself badly, with a pair of scissors. Her parents sent her to stay

 

with her maternal grandparents in Shanghai, until she had completely recovered..

 

Her grand father was well educated, and started to teach her calligraphy,

 

and how to draw.

   

1990

After primary school, she continued her studies at senior school. . She was very

 

interested in photography, and decided to study journalism.

 

1994

She went to Nanjing University.

 

There was a phoyography department at the School of journalism and communication

 

where she was able to learn the basics of photo journalism. She was particularly interested

 

in the work of the international reporters from the Magnum Agency : the American  Robert

 

Capa (1913-1954), Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004), George Rodger (1908- 1995) and David

 

Seymour (1911-1956).

 

She got her Master's degree. .

   

1998

She worked as a journalist for theXinmin Evening News, in Shanghai.

 

 

2001

Badashanren (八大山人 -  Zhu Da 朱耷(1626-1705)Qi Baishi 齐白石 (1864-1957)

 

Zheng Banqiao 郑板橋  ( Zheng Xie  郑燮(1693-1765 ) - Van Gogh (1853 -1890) were

 

her favourite painters.

 

She saw reproductions of paintings in the Louvre..

 

She decided that she wanted to live in France, and went to the Alliance Française

 

to learn French.

   

2003

She moved to Paris, an enrolled at the School of Journalism at the Pantheon-Assas.

 

In the second year of her studies, she applied to do Photography and Multimedia

 

studies.

 

 

2006

She studied in the renowned Photography and Multimedia department at Paris 8 university.

 

 

2008

She got her degree in technical science ( M.S.T. ) and began working on her Master's.

 

 

2009

Her first exhibition in Paris was held in the DIX9 Gallery, in the 3rd district, from September

 

4th to October 3rd. It was called Youth self-Portraits - part1, .

   

2010

She obtained her master's in Photography and Contemporary Art;

   
 

Danièle Sicard

   

   
 

Solo exhibitions

   

2009

Youth Self-Portraits - Part 1 Dix9 Gallery Paris  France

   2015    

05.02 28.02 Self-Portraits Dix9 Gallery Paris  France

   
 

Collective exhibitions

   

2006

Gallery of the France Stadium  Saint Denis

2006

Cerise Space  Paris

2007

Forum Le Blanc-Mesnil

2009

Cinko Space Paris

2009

Lille Art Fair Grand Palais Lille  France

2009

Slick 09 Cent Quatre Paris    France

2010

13. 01 17. 01 Photo LA Los Angeles  United States

   
           
 

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Yuan Yanwu  袁燕舞 - Youth self Portraits - Part 1 - 5 ans.

 

© Yuan Yanwu - Youth self Portraits - Part 1 - 9 ans.

 
             
     

Yuan Yanwu  袁燕舞 - Youth self Portraits - Part 1 - 13 ans.

     
             

 

Yuan Yanwu  袁燕舞 - Youth self Portraits - Part 1 - 14ans.

 

Yuan Yanwu  袁燕舞- Youth self Portraits - Part 1 - 15 ans.

 

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Hidden Self-Portraits

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

   

Yuan Yanwu

 

This ability to go ( show ) back to her childhood. Images fresh colourful. That's

  what being an artist is all about.
  Untouched moments. No wrinkles.
 

Not easy. Sometimes the child within us won't be captured. The colours vanish and,

 

or the face.

  Whatever ! These archeological fragments of me, of Yanwu, of us, because this is
  all about us, mark the time as it passes.
 

The rock. That's the one, isn't it ? More or less, but yes ! Hasn't everyone tried to

 

superimpose the landscape  which imposes this snapshot, like a paradise lost ?

  You also have to look elsewhere. There, always the same colours - because
  everyone lives through their own colours, their smells, their tastes - the same
  sensitivity, the same delicacy, the same modesty.
 

Michel Nau

 
 

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