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Jiang Guo Fang was born in 1951. As a young man he was influenced by the Cultural Revolution and studied oil painting until 1978 at the Chinese National Academy of Fine Arts. After his graduation he initially started teaching and later assumed a professorship at the art department of the Central Institute of Drama in Beijing. Today Jiang Guo Fang is regarded as one of China's most significant contemporary artists.The Forbidden City in Beijing is a symbol of China as only the Great Wall can be. Here ruled the last emperor of the Quing Dynasty (1644-1911), the last dynasty which followed after Ming (1368-1644). In 1405 emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty moved the capital of the Chinese empire from Nanking to Beijing. Between 1407 and 1420 the construction of the monumental palace began. The area with its hundreds of palaces and thousands of rooms is the embodiment of the many thousand years old Chinese civilisation and culture.Jiang Guo Fang is an artist who displays great courage in art by placing its fate in the Forbidden City, the former imperial palace in China, and dares to hold a one-man show in the Forbidden City with his series of paintings of the very same site. Later, his Forbidden City series was brought to Rome's Palazzo Venezia, Italy, where his oeuvre was on display for two and a half months. In this brief period Jiang Guo Fang travelled from the former imperial palace to Palazzo Venezia, a figurative road of art from the East to the West

In 2004, as the first artist ever, Jiang Guo Fang had the honour of exhibiting in the Forbidden City. The only exhibition so far, with works from the "FORBIDDEN CITY" series in Europe, took place in the Palazzo Venezia in Rome, in 2005. In 2009, the paintings from Jiang Guo Fang's "The Forbidden City" series was exhibited at the Art Center for the first time in Berlin, and in 2011 in Athens

Sound: Vanessa Mae - He Zhanhao and Chen Gang - The Butterfly Lovers violin concerto

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