Shan Weijun
Born in Jiangsu province, China.
Shan Weijun’s artistic approach is anchored in an introspective and contemplative method, in which landscape, though drawing its roots from the French countryside, echoes the intimate and remembered topography of his native Jiangsu region. Through the use of traditional Chinese techniques, rice paper, brush, Chinese ink, Shan reinvents the peri-urban landscape by means of a singular method he calls “a thousand dots”. This technique, evoking the French Impressionist pointillism of the late nineteenth century, is nonetheless distinguished by its exclusive use of shades of grey, lending his works a remarkable depth and subtlety.
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Mountains, stones and trees, recurring elements of his visual repertoire, transcend their materiality in order to invite the viewer to a meditation on impermanence. This search for a pure expression, far from limiting itself to a mere reproduction of the real, engages a deep reflection on the very essence of existence, in which silence, simplicity and solitude become vectors of meaning.
Through his practice, Shan Weijun becomes the intermediary between the visible and the invisible, the material and the spiritual. He explores the tension between ink and paper, between presence and absence, in an unceasing quest for harmony and balance. The artist describes his creative process as a form of meditative retreat, a way of merging with the universe, of conversing with his soul and, ultimately, of touching a universal truth.
His work, far from being reducible to a technique or an aesthetic, is the reflection of a philosophy of life. Shan Weijun does not merely paint landscapes; he invites us on a spiritual journey in which every dot of ink becomes a meditation, a breath, a window onto the infinite.
Education 2→
- 1991-1993
- Département d’arts plastiques, université Paris 8, Paris
- 1983-1987
- Département d’arts plastiques, Institut de l’industrie légère de Wuxi, aujourd’hui université Jiangnan
Solo exhibitions 2→
- 2018
- Between Light and Shade, Le French May, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong
- 2017
- Encre pure, paysages en mouvement, Service culturel français, Shanghai
Group exhibitions 9→
- 2025
- Tradition Transformed, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong
- 2024
- Élégance du trait, avec Zhu Hong, Galerie 208, ParisLandscape in Motion, Fine Art Asia, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition CentreNature, Zen et fête du Printemps, Fayuen Aman, Shanghai
- 2019
- Art Basel Hong Kong, Alisan Fine Arts
- 2018
- ART021, Alisan Fine Arts, Shanghai Exhibition Centre
- 2017
- Art du contemporain, Grand Palais, ParisChina, Art Capital Forum, ShanghaiArt contemporain, Centre Georges-Brassens, Paris
Public collections 1→
- Musée Cernuschi, Paris
