Artists

Pan De Hai is a representative painter of the Chinese avant-garde movement of the Eighties.  In 1987, he created his most important work, the Corn series.  The corn imagery of these paintings is the symbol of the artist’s life experience, and of his long contemplation of life’s origin and the tragic character of human existence.  The densely packed kernels form patterns on the human body that appear to dissect the body and spirit.  They multiply endlessly, both exposing and concealing the mystery of life.

Since the 1990’s, Pan De Hai has begun work on the Chubby series, which retains the symbolic corn imagery, but with a shifted focus on some exaggerated puffed-up figures that often possess receding hairlines.  The Chubby unveiled at his first solo-exhibition in Hong Kong at Schoeni Art Gallery in November 2001.

Pan De Hai is one of the participating artists in the ChinArt museum exhibition, which has been shown in Duisburg at the Küppersmühle Museum, in Rome at the MACRO, in Budapest at the Ludwig Museum and in Bydgosszcz, Poland at the Stadtgalerie and in Palma de Mallorca at La Lonja in September 2004.