Haiping Zhang

 MA student (sculpture)
 I work at The College of Fine Arts, Shanghai University (where I am a professor and vice head of the Department of Sculpture).
 Previously, my works have been exhibited in the National Art Exhibitions of China and in America, Japan, Singapore and Denmark, and won many prizes. Glimmer of Silver Javelin was collected by the International Olympic Museum in Switzerland. In addition, I have erected well known public sculptures in many cities in China.
 Welding sculpture - The 'Chinese Character Series' is a set of sculptures based on ancient Chinese pictographs. But it is a new sculptural art language that is different from that of the written characters and is a three-dimensional abstract form instead.
 In this project, my approach to creation is to be as close a possible to a language of feelings, to speak art using the basic processes, cutting, forging and welding to achieve spontaneity with my medium. Now that I have an understanding of the fundamental principles, my art has become a new style, drawing inspiration from Chinese characters, but discovering that they can be abstracted, reshaped and randomly emphasized to give a particular uniqueness to each piece.
 To me, as a modern artist, this is an important process where I find myself knowing there is more to be explored. I pursue a model of 'thicker' native culture, a new expression of art that transfers the original hieroglyphs into modernistic sculpture.

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