RAN Xiangfei 冉祥飞

Overview

"Blowing Breeze" Gold Plate 微风吹过镀金盘, 2021

Reborn the Chinese Imperial Kiln of Jingdezhen since 1.000 years

Nature into Glaze

• Ran Xiangfei uses the old Chinese process of throwing, glazing, firing, and painting, that is as refined and complex as the artwork itself. All his works are handmade in the full ancient Chinese imperial kiln process of Jindezhen since 1.000 years.

• His porcelains are pristine, grace and fine, disarmingly simple, contemplative objects whose finishes reflect the panoply of the natural world — spring flowers, mountain under clouds, moonlight, star-filled nights, undulating ocean waves, and fiery sunsets.

• Stemming from the artist’s interest in rare ancient Chinese tea set glazes, Ran Xiangfei seeks to create glazes that have a three-dimensional quality and convey purity and peacefulness. His forms can be characterized as classic, calm, and balanced in aesthetic.

• Based on his many years of research into Song-dynasty ceramics, he has mastered them so successfully and created a series of fine porcelain of his own unique style combined with new innovations and new technologies, that abound with cultural and aesthetic meaning.

• Porcelains created by Ran Xiangfei won numerous significant international awards like Best of Best of Red Dot in Germany at age of 23, and are included in significant museum collections as Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

Biography

Expatriate Artist in Royal Delft

International Awards & Expositions

Born in 1987 in China

2005~2009 BA in school of design , Jiangnan University, China

2009~2013 MA in school of design , Jiangnan University, China

2014 Artists-in-residence progam in Royal Delft, the Nerthlands

• Prizes & Awards:
2007: JDF2007 International Design Competition

Silver Prize (Govenor of Osaka Prefecture Prize)
2008: LITEON AWARD, Silver Prize
2009: Excellent Graduation Design
2010: National Fine Arts Exhibition, Nominated Award
2010: Roche Bobois Design Award, Nominated Award
2010: Pan Tianshou National Stationary Design Competition, Copper Prize
2010: DongGuan Ming Furniture Design Competition, Silver Prize
2010: The Rodo Young Design Prize 2010 100%Design Shanghai “DESIGN IN CHINA",

Excellent Award
2010: Best of Best of Red Dot

2012: Best tableware design from EDIDA of ELLE DECORATION MAGZINE

2020: Taiwan jingdian awards

• Exhibitions:
2010: “Unhidden Design”, National Fine Arts Exhibition, Shenzhen, China
2010: “The Shape of Temperature” lamp and “Bag Napkin”, Fat Art, Beijing, China

2010: “ Moon in Shadow”, MiLano Design Week, Italy
2010: “Xuanpaper Notebook”, 100% Design Shanghai, China

2011: “Sothing”, 100% Design Shanghai, China

2012:“Sothing”, 100% Design Shanghai, China

2012: “Sothing”, 100% Design Shanghai, China

2012:“Sothing", MASON&OBJECT, Paris, France

2014:“YiYangYiSheng”, The 20^th China International Furniture Expo, Shanghai, China

2015:“YiYangYiSheng”, The 2^th DesignShanghai, China

2015: “Inspired by Barcelona” , HongKong

2016:“YiYangYiSheng”, The 3^th DesignShanghai, China

2017:“Verboden Porselein”, Exclusief Voor De Keizer, Delft, Holland

2018:“YiYangYiSheng”, The 5^th DesignShanghai, China

2018:“YiYangYiSheng”, 1^th DesignBeijing, China