Ah Xian. Né en Chine en 1960. Après les événements de la place Tiananmen en 1989, il a demandé l’asile politique à l’Australie et vit à Sydney depuis 1990. Il aborde les questions entourant le déplacement culturel, idenditaire et la relation entre l’Est et l’Ouest. Ses œuvres récentes continuent à explorer les matériaux et les possibilités symboliques des techniques telles que laques, bronze et émail cloisonné pour représenter la forme humaine.
Ah Xian was born in Beijing in 1960. Initially trained as a painter, Ah Xian was a practising artist in China throughout the 1980s. Following the events in Tiananmen Square in 1989, he sought political asylum in Australia and moved to Sydney in 1990. Since the 1990s, Ah Xian has united traditional Chinese materials and techniques with a contemporary sculptural practice to address issues surrounding cultural displacement, identity politics and the relationship between East and West. His recent works continue to explore the material and symbolic possibilities of techniques such as lacquer-ware, bronze and cloisonné to represent the human form.
