ZHONG CHENG

唐海文(曾海文) TANG HAIWEN (1927-1991)

Born in Fujian, China, T’ang studied Chinese calligraphy under the instruction of his grandfather, and left for France to seek further education in arts in 1948. He held some sole exhibitions all over Europe, including: Oudaias Museum in Rabat, Morocco in 1959, Midsomma Garden Culture Center, Stockholm, Sweden in 1965, Sables d’Olonne, France in 1972, Ponchettes Museum in Nice, France in 1980, Chateau de Vitre, France in 1984, Paris, France in 1987. Tang never went back to his homeland, China for the rest of his life, yet he traveled all around the Europe and America, and knew numerous friends from all over the world. After T’ang passed away in Paris in 1991, The Taipei Fine Arts Museum organized a retrospective exhibition of his work entitled "The Tao of Painting." in 1997; In 2002, the Musée des Arts Asiatiques-Guimet in Paris presented a retrospective of Tang works entitled "Paths of Ink." The Shiseido Foundation in Tokyo has also exhibited the work of Tang in the same year. T’ang's work is either held privately or in the collections of several museums in Europe and America, including The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas; the Musée National des Art Asiatiques-Guimet in Paris and The Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.

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