Canal Cheong Jagerroos

Canal Cheong Jagerroos (Chinese: 張彤茹; born 1968[1]) is a Chinese contemporary artist. Brought up in an artistic family in Macau, Cheong Jagerroos works primarily in abstract painting and installations. Her works have been exhibited worldwide since the 1980s. While Cheong Jagerroos is best known for her more traditional multi-layered rice-paper abstract paintings, her later works are based on conceptual art.[2][3] Her art is infused with ancient metaphoric symbols, signs, and contemporary expressions.

Canal Cheong Jagerroos
張彤茹
Cheong Jagerroos at her home in Helsinki
Born1968 (age 55–56)
EducationGuangzhou Academy of Fine Arts
OccupationContemporary artist
Known forMulti-layered rice-paper abstract paintings
Websitecanalcheongjagerroos.com

Her recent large-scale paintings solo exhibitions 'Blue and Red Art project' and 'Floating Island' with (calligraphy) textile were displayed at Salo Art Museum, Jyväskylä Art Museum, Joensuuu Art Museum, Korundi Rovaniemi Art Museum and Xian Art Museum from 2018 to May 2020. She currently splits her time living and working between Helsinki, Shanghai, Nice, Berlin and Tokyo.[4]

Personal life

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Canal Cheong Jagerroos was born in an artistic family and grew up in Macau.[5] Her father was an artist, and her mother an opera singer.[6] Ever since she was a little girl she wanted to be an artist.[7] She was taught the Chinese traditional painting at an early age, particularly by her father. Cheong Jagerroos' father played an important role in her artistic education infusing in her the strong basis of traditional Chinese art and the tradition shapes.[8][7] She married Finnish-Swedish Johan Jägerroos in 1991, whom she met in 1987 when studying at Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in China and Jägerroos was studying Chinese at Sun Yat-sen University. Together they have two children, their son was born in France and their daughter in Switzerland. During the past 30 years, Cheong Jagerroos has lived and worked in numerous countries in Asia, Europe as well as in Africa.[7] The experiences she has acquired from living in the culturally diverse cities of Hong Kong, Shanghai, Strasbourg, Zürich, Trieste, Dakar, and Helsinki has influenced her professional work.[7][9]

Education

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Cheong Jagerroos studied courses in fine art at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts.[8] She further studied courses in painting, Chinese painting, oil painting, contemporary art, applying art and experimental art, among other courses.[9] She finished these courses in 1989 and returned to Macau, only to soon resume her artistic studies in Hong Kong, studying art and graphic design at the Open University of Hong Kong for one year.[9]

Artistic style

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Cheong Jagerroos incorporates multi-layered paintings, drawings, signs, symbols, mix-media and calligraphy to depict the cumulative effects of urban changes with a contemporary expression.[10] She combines Chinese traditional techniques and with giant abstract compositions.[9] Cheong Jagerroos has been a citizen of western and eastern cities, which informs her artistic creations.[11] Westerners easily spot the abundance of Chinese elements, such as calligraphy, in her work, however, the rice-papers and collage she also uses are more difficult to notice. "Her unique constructive, deconstructive, and reconstructive technique is in fact extremely complicated and sophisticated" commented Crystal  Xu, Chief Curator and Manager at the Beijing Being 3 Gallery.[11]

Under the influence of two philosophers, Bada Shanren (1626-1705) and Laozi (530 BC),[12] she finds inspiration upon observing the laws and development of nature, the contemporary social issues[9] as well as in being authentic to herself and to her own personal feelings.

Public exhibitions

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Canal Cheong Jagerroos at her studio in Shanghai.
Country City Year Exhibition title Gallery
China Xian 2017 "Beholders - B&RAP" Xian Art Museum
Beijing 2018 "Awaking" Being 3 Gallery
Macao 2014 "Pure Affection I" (純 觸覚) Rui Cunha Foundation
Hong Kong 2010 "Essence of A Girl" Gallery Karin Weber
Finland Helsinki 2008 "Realm of Solitude" Galleria Bulevardi 7
2010 "Carpe Diem" Galleria Uusitalo
2014 "Infinity – Boundless" Galleria A_C Gallery
Tampere 2017 "Inverse Nature Stage II - B&RAP" Finlayson Art Area
Salo 2018 "Floating Island – Tower" Salo Art Museum Roundhouse
Joensuu 2019 "Undefined Exclusion" Joensuu Art Museum
Söderkulla 2019 "Essence of Growth" Gumbostrand Konst & Form
Jyväskylä 2019 "Floating Island – Utopia" Jyväskylä Art Museum
Punkaharju 2020 "Floating Island – Drifting", "Linear Hope" Saimaan Taideluola Art Cave
Rovaniemi 2020 "Floating Island-Beyond Arctic", "Extract - B&RAP" Korundi Rovaniemi Art Museum
France Strasbourg 1995, 1999 "Lover", "Autumn Color" Gallery Sum Qui Sum
Cannes 2013 "Royaume des Saisons" Galerie Geneviève Marty
Italy Trieste 2002 "The Sound of Nature" Galleria Rettori Tribbio
Venice 2013 "Time. Space. Existence." 55th Venice Biennale
Japan Chiba 2016 "Three Persons Exhibition" (縁. 市川市館) Yoshizawa Garden Gallery
Portugal Estoril 2013 "Pure Affection II" Galeria de Arte do Casino Estoril
Senegal Dakar 2004 "An African Girl" Dak'art Biennale
"Morning Task" DWGS Art
Sweden Göteborg 2008 "A Silver Day" Galeria Viktoria
Stockholm 2011 "Summerdream" Galleri Utställningssalongen
Göteborg 2012 "Selective Reality" Galeria Viktoria
Switzerland Zurich 1998, 2000, 2001 "Home", "Seeking for Kingdom", "Evening Party" Gallery Arrigo
Basel 2017 "Reality of Transcendence - B&RAP" Basel Art Centre
UK London 2013 "Seeking for Inner-Self" Gallery NTG
USA Miami 2016 "Eternal Love" Tranter Gallery
2020 "Floating Island- Realm of Wonder"

References

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  1. ^ Lampinen, Jouni (2019-06-20). "Maailmankansalainen" [World Citizen]. Sipoon Sanomat (in Finnish). Mielipide.
  2. ^ Artnet Gallery Network (2020-02-26). "See Images of 'Floating Island' a Dazzling Immersive Space by Chinese Artist Canal Cheong Jagerroos". Artnet News. Retrieved 2021-03-08. The artist brings together works from throughout her career to create an artistic and spiritual space for contemplation.(...) She aims to create a synthesized style that the artist calls a "futuristic language of her own."
  3. ^ Lappalainen, Seija (2020-01-28). "Tuhansien kilometrien opintomatka" [A study trip of 1.000 kilometers]. Lapin Kansa (in Finnish). No. Kulttuuri. Rovaniemi. pp. 20–21.
  4. ^ "Arvostelu: Katkeilevasta elämäntavasta kätkeytyvään". Lapin Kansa (in Finnish). Retrieved 2021-03-11.
  5. ^ "The opening of Canal Cheong-Jagerroos at Gallery Uusitalo" (in English and Finnish). Helsinki, Finland: Organized Chaos Video. 2010.
  6. ^ Lind, Petra (2019-06-18). "På hennes dukar möts östeläandskt och västerländskt" [On Canal Cheong Jagerroos palette, where Eastern and Western meet]. Östnyland Newspaper (in Swedish). p. 18.
  7. ^ a b c d Markowitz, Douglas (2019-10-10). "Chinese Artist Canal Cheong Jagerroos Brings Her "Floating Island" to Miami". Miami New Times. Retrieved 2021-03-11. Jagerroos reuses materials and introduces new elements, accumulating and adding as if collecting mementos.
  8. ^ a b Jyväskylä Art Museum (2018-12-12). "Canal Cheong Jagerroos Floating Island – Utopia, 1.2.–31.3". Jyväskylä.fi. Retrieved 2021-03-11.
  9. ^ a b c d e Pinto, Catarina (2014-02-19). "Local-born artist auctions paintings to help renovate Chinese schools" (PDF). Macau Daily Times: 8. "Canal's work incorporates creative techniques that involve using multiple layers of rice paper, acrylic paint, ink, and traditional Chinese pigments and mixed mediums to derive a sense of depth on canvas," the Rui Cunha Foundation expressed in a statement.
  10. ^ "Ukkosmyrskyjä ja kirsikankukkia – Nanna Suden ja Canal Jagerroosin yhteisnäyttely Joensuun taidemuseossa on tasokas ja sopivan eriparinen". www.karjalainen.fi (in Finnish). 21 July 2019. Retrieved 2021-03-11.
  11. ^ a b Being 3 Gallery (2017). "Artist-in-residence: Canal Cheong Jagerroos". Artist.In.Residence.17 (in English and Chinese). Beijing, China. Retrieved 2017-11-02.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  12. ^ Mulderrig, Amie (2013-04-04). "Two artists find their inner-self". East London and West Essex Guardian Series. High Wycombe: Gannett. Freetime. Retrieved 2013-04-04.

Further reading

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  • Selected Paintings Of Canal Cheong Jagerroos / 張彤茹畫集 (in Chinese, Portuguese and English). Published by Rui Cunha Foundation & Instituto Cultural de Macau. ISBN 978-99965-954-5-5 (paperback); ISBN 978-99965-954-6-2 (hardcover).
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