Lai Zhigang, also known as Yunchan, is a contemporary Chinese artist of Accumulated-ink landscape painting, the second-generation successor of Li Keran, and a member of the Chinese Artists Association. Lai was born in Bengbu, Anhui in 1963. At the age of 12, he began to learn from the local painter Mr. Ding Chucai. In 2001, he studied in the Chinese Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. In 2002, he was admitted to the master's class of the "Jia Youfu Studio" of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. On the basis of the systematic education in the Academy of Fine Arts, he devoted himself to copying, sketching, and creation, and won the support and appreciation of Jia Youfu. In 2005, he joined the Li Xiaoke Art Studio of the Beijing Academy of Fine Arts for training. On the basis of inheriting the broad, vigorous and profound Li-style landscape paintings, he developed a new style of Accumulated-ink landscapes. On the basis of inheriting the broad, vigorous, and profound Li-style landscape paintings, he developed a new style of Accumulated-ink landscapes. In the description of stones, he broke through the techniques of contemporary landscapes and created his own characteristics, and won the Golden Color Award of Chinese Fine Arts.
 
   Lai Zhigang's fame in today's landscape painting community stems from his creative individual expression based on his tireless study of the essence of traditional painting. As Jia Youfu said, his works are explosive, tense and shocking, and are no longer limited by the size of the painting, which is very impressive. Lai Zhigang said that he always believes that Accumulated-ink is not only the best at expressing the Chinese landscape in terms of volume, quality, block surface, structure and spatial level, but also grand and magnificent, with the reality and possibility of infinitely expanding humanistic time and space.
 
   During his sojourn in Taiwan in 2017 and 2018, Lai created a series of new Accumulated-ink works with themes such as Sun Moon Lake, Ali Mountain, Jade Mountain, and Taroko. In his first exhibition in Taiwan this time, more than 50 works including ink painting and sketching will be displayed. It is hoped that through the exhibition, the people of Taiwan can get to know the artist better, and that his works will attract more exchanges and resonance when they are exhibited in the National Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall.
 
 
 
Guests At the Opening Ceremony：
 
Chen Chuanxi, Famous Art Historian and Criti
 
Huang Guangnan, Former Political Committee Member of Taiwan and Chairman of the South American Pavilion
 
Chen Xiaojun, the Current Chairman of the Chinese Society of Cultural Relics and the General Manager of Xizhi Hall
 
Lieutenant General Zhou Kangsheng, Chairman of the Chinese General Cultural Exchange Association
 
Wang Dingqian, Senior Collector
 
Shi Jinsheng, Senior Collector
 
Chen Dexin, Former Chairman of the Straits Foundation and Former Executive Vice Minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology
 
Lin Muhe, Former Director of Qingwan Yaji and the Chinese Cultural Relics Society
 
Wen Yuru, Chief Financial officer of Dabaihui Group
 
Zhang Cailian, Chairman of Dabaihui Life and Health Industry
 
Xu Zhirong, Legislator
 
Chen Chaoming, Legislator
 
Zhuang Ling, Well-Known Photographer, and His Wife, Chen Xiasheng
 
Zou Qiuqiang, Researcher At Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall
 
Qing Minliang, Former Director of the Cultural Affairs Bureau of New Taipei City
 
Jiang Mingxian, Former Director of the Fine Arts Department of Taiwan Normal University
 
Li Zhenming, Former Dean of the College of Art, National Taiwan Normal University
 
Former Dean of the Academy of Fine Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts Lin Zhanghu
 
Wang Zhenhua, Chairman of Ravenel
 
Tang Jianfeng, Chairman of the Chinese Painting Society of the Republic of China
 
 
 
Guests At the Seminar：
 
Chen Chuanxi, Famous Art Historian and Critic
 
Huang Guangnan, Former Political Committee Member of Taiwan and Chairman of the South American Pavilion
 
Li Zhenming, Former Dean of the College of Art, National Taiwan Normal University
 
Lin Zhanghu, Former Dean of the Academy of Fine Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts
 
Xiong Yijing, Curator and Former Editor-In-Chief of "Grand View" (Monthly Magazine)
 
Liu Wenjie, Well-Known Collector
 
 
 
Artist: Lai Zhigang
 
Sponsor: Lai Zhigang Jimo Landscape Painting Culture and Art Development Co., Ltd.
 
Hall of Righteousness
 
Exhibition Remarks
 
Symposium: September 7, 2019 (Saturday) from 2:00pm to 5:00pm
 
Venue: F1 Yat-Sen Lecture Hall, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall
 
Distinguished guests: Chen Chuanxi, Liu Wenjie, Jiang Mingxian, Li Zhenming, Lin Zhanghu, Xiong Yijing