Art Projects Gallery is proud to present Shan Jiang’s series of highly detailed limited edition works, developed throughout his career over the past several years.

Shan Jiang’s works transcend the boundary between fine art and illustration. Shan’s immaculately detailed and captivating works are the result of the artist’s constant exploration in developing visual language and style to express his personal and visual experiences.

Shan constantly conjures up mesmerizing imageries inspired by his memories of Shanghai, where he was born and grew up in. Other key influences from which he continually seeks inspirations for his works include the ubiquitous bicycle that is a pivotal object of his memory of China in the 80’s and early 90’s; anime; and literature especially the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Italo Calvino and Murakami Haruki. He is also inspired by the works of other artists including Kiyoshi Awazu's design and illustration; Moebius's “40 Days In The Desert”; Rene Magritte's “Golconda” and Gong Suran's “Lady Ming Leaving Han Realm”.

Having completed his Master of Design (M.Des) at Edinburgh College of Art in 2004, Shan worked at one of UK’s leading design studios ILoveDust for 7 years, quickly establishing himself as a leading voice in the illustration world. He then joined the dynamic London-based design company Shotopop as a partner in mid 2012. Shan currently lives and works in London.

藝途畫廊榮幸展出江杉的一系列限量版的作品。這些作品都是江杉於過去幾年的職業生涯中所創作的精心製作。

江杉的作品超越了美術和插圖之間的邊界。作品里無盡的細節，反映了江杉不斷的探索發展中的視覺語言和風格來表達他個人和視覺的體驗，使觀賞者不斷有新的發現和想象是作品迷人之處。

在上海出生、成長的江杉，腦子里不斷浮現上海迷人的意象，也是他創作靈感的來源。在江杉的記憶里，中國在80年代和90年代初，無處不在的自行車，也是他的作品靈感來源之一。再來是動畫、文學，特別是加夫列爾·加西亞·馬爾克斯、卡爾維諾和村上春樹的文學作品。藝術家粟津清的設計和插圖作品也給予江杉許多創作啓發。再來是莫比烏斯的《沙漠中的40天》、勒內·馬格利特的《戈爾康 達》和宮素然的《明妃出塞圖》。

2004年，畢業於愛丁堡藝術學院，獲設計碩士學位。隨後，江杉曾在英國頂尖的設計工作室 ILoveDust 從事設計工作七年，迅速成為了在插畫領域中的佼佼者。2012年中旬，他加入了倫敦設計公司 Shotopop, 成為該司的合作夥伴。江杉目前定居倫敦。

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