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Gifts of a lifetime
    2016-09-01  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

    YANG ZHENNING, Chinese-American physicist who won a Nobel Prize in physics in 1957, on Friday donated three sculptures of late artist Xiong Bingming to the National Art Museum of China in Beijing. Xiong held a retrospective exhibition at the museum in 1999.

    Among the sculptures is one bronze piece, “Penholder,” which Xiong specially made for Yang in the late 1950s that bears both their initials on the back. The other two sculptures are Xiong’s bronze works “Horse” and “Camel,” both produced in the late 1950s.

    Yang, 94, and Xiong (1922-2002) knew each other since they were 7 years old.

    Both their fathers were prominent mathematicians and professors at Tsinghua University in Beijing. The two families were neighbors for eight years.

    The boys went to same elementary and secondary schools and stuck together all the time. They both graduated from National Southwestern Associated University in Kunming, Southwest China’s Yunnan Province, in the 1940s.

    Yang later went to the United States, and the physicist became the first Chinese to win a Nobel Prize in 1957. Xiong pursued PhD studies in philosophy in France in 1947, but a year later, he transferred to study sculpture and became a Paris-based artist.

    Although living on different continents, the two maintained a long friendship. Xiong gave many of his sculptures to Yang.

    Yang believes the three donations demonstrate Xiong’s distinguished approach to sculpture. He fragmented iron and bronze sheets into smaller pieces, and welded them into forms. The complete works have various enclosures formed by these chips, which according to Yang, become a feature of Xiong’s output.

    Yang says the approach was popular among artists in Britain and France in the 1950s and Xiong was a pioneer of the development.

    Xiong’s interest in sculpture was ignited after meeting French sculptor Marcel Gimond shortly after he arrived in Paris. He was impressed by Gimond’s works and began studying art with him.

    Xiong entered the prestigious National School of Fine Arts in Paris in 1950. He taught at the University of Paris beginning in the mid-1960s until he retired in 1989. During the time he also drew, painted, sculpted and practiced calligraphy. He published several books, introducing Chinese art from a Western perspective.

    He visited the Chinese mainland many times from the late 1970s on, giving lectures and exhibiting. He also left some creations here, including “Ru Zi Niu,” a cow sculpture that kneels on its forelegs and raises its head high. (China Daily)

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