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Gong Jian is a Chinese Asian Modern & Contemporary painter who was born in 1978. Their work is currently being shown at Tai Kwun in Hong Kong. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Macalline Center of Art (MACA) have featured Gong Jian's work in the past.Gong Jian's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 5,157 USD to 18,519 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2006 the record price for this artist at auction is 18,519 USD for Show You How To Shoot Planes No.2, sold at Forever in 2010. Gong Jian has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for ArtDaily in September 2025.
Tai Kwun Contemporary is proud to present聽Stay Connected: Art and China Since 2008, a panoramic exhibition comprising two chapters and featuring over 70 artists, curated by Dr Pi Li, Head of Art, and Ying Kwok, Senior Curator.
The two-part exhibition Stay Connected: Art and China Since 2008 presents twenty-first century art that addresses changes in social realities in China and their impacts on the world
In New York, Eli Klein Gallery opened the new decade with a retrospective of sorts: Force Majeure (18 January鈥18 March 2020), curated by Lu Mingjun, brings together works by 13 artists from China that were produced between 2000 and 2020.
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..What is different this time, however, is Gong鈥檚 renunciation of conceptual discussions in the process of translation and portraying; instead, he returns to the linguistic structure and painting systems...
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..Gong鈥檚 practice is one of meta-painting that possesses a distinct 鈥渟elf-referentiality鈥 and 鈥渟elf-reflexivity,鈥 which is in turn based on his doubts and inquiries into contemporary painting and the entire...
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..Therefore, in Gong鈥檚 view, what can be derived from perspectivism is actually the visuality and viewing apparatus of painting; the so-called form not only involves contour/outlining, composition, and light/-shade,...
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..However, these parameters and dimensions, so often presented as logically coherent in theoretical texts, are not so precise in Gong鈥檚 painting practice; rather, like a complex, three-dimensional network,...
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