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Tu Zhiwei


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(We have begun compiling here newspaper, magazine, television, and book reviews about the art works of Tu Zhiwei, as we learn of them. See also Tu in the News and Tu News in Asia. If you know of any not included here, please let us know.)

2008


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href="http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2008/1/110/article_9.htm">Shanghai Daily:

Jan. 10 -- In an epic scene from hell, a vast fiery pit swallows piles of precious ancient bamboo books. Scholars roar and wail in despair, helpless as China's first emperor orders the burning of "dangerous ideas." Confucian scholars are buried alive, a sacrifice to unity. A colossal canvas "Heads, Books, Pit" by Tu Zhiwei, depicts the high price of stability in the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC) after the tumult of the Warring States Period (476-221 BC).

That third century BC "cleansing" in all its horror is rendered on a canvas stretching eight meters in length and two meters in width. It's like a mural of an inferno. Tu depicts the scene as though he had witnessed it himself. The oil painting is one of six huge works on exhibit at the Liu Haisu Art Museum, a major museum of contemporary art. The exhibition runs until January 16. [
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2007


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China Daily's newspaper review of Tu Zhiwei's 2007 art exhibition at Beijing's prestigious

National Art Museum of China. (Alt. source: Greater Rome Bank)

&;&; &;&; &;&;&;&;&;&;&;&;&;&;&;&; The Beijing exhibit of "Body Language" murals is described by AGB ART as "creative," "magnificent," "majestic" and "irresistable."

Tu Zhiwei´s painting exhibition held in Beijing

China's CCTV reviews Tu Zhiwei's art exhibition at the National Art Museum of China


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Zhi Song Jia reviews the Zhongshan exhibition, writing that Tu's "large-scale works...give a new perspective, a new way of thinking" about Chinese history and have an "irresistable appeal."

2006


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Yan Sun's Introduction to "Zhiwei Tu and His Huge Epic Paintings" (Tianjin People's Fine Arts

Publishing House: 2006) :

2004

Tu Zhiwei: The Highest Standards

Li Huaiyu reviews Tu Zhiwei's "Dunhuang" paintings for Nanfang Dushi Bao, December 29, 2004.

2003


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Teri Thomson Randall interviews Tu and reviews his gallery show, "The Meaning of Light," in Santa Fe, N.M.

1997


href="../dunhuang.htmlIndistinguiishable">"Zhiwei Tu: The Inextinguishable Soul" Introduction to "The Dunhuang Music-and-Dance Oil Painting Exhibition of Zhiwei Tu"

by Chen Ching Shan.

1996

Introduction to the Art of Tu Zhiwei

Written by Chi Ke, Professor of Art, Guangzhou Institute of Fine Arts and Chairman, Guangdong Society of Aesthetics, China. From &;Paintings of Zhiwei Tu,&; Shirl Smithson, ed. (Arbor Hill Press 1996).

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