/chao-ge-lorenzo-il-magnifico-lifetime-achievement-award-from-the-president - FB
Chao Ge at the XV Florence Biennale 2025
At the occasion of the XV Florence Biennale, Chinese artist Chao Ge, will receive the “Lorenzo il Magnifico” Award from the President.
In the 1980s, Chao Ge, a young artist from northern China, resolved to dedicate himself to realizing the spiritual ideal of art through his paintings. Through unremitting efforts, by the early 1990s, he had become a recognized practitioner and leader of spiritual painting in China’s art circles. His art embodies the poetic beauty nurtured by the vast landscapes of the East, while also touching upon the hardships, spiritual confusion, and human suffering of the 20th century. The world we inhabit is sliding toward a secular abyss at an unstoppable pace; yet Chao Ge, through decades of unwavering endeavour, seeks spiritual truth through painting and contends with this declining world.
"To restore people's reverence for things"
Chao Ge believes that the great function of painting lies in drawing people’s perception of things from superficial narration to inner essence. As an artist amid the context of Asian social transformation, his art rarely conveys such profound insight into and deep sympathy for the universal human nature of his era, along with the human dignity thus revealed. Chao Ge firmly asserts his identity as a humanist. When asked about his creative purpose, he once stated: “To restore people’s reverence for things”.
Chao Ge’s work has been shown internationally at prestigious venues, including the Palazzo Venezia in Rome, the Sala delle Armi and the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno in Florence, as well as in cities such as Colorado (USA), St. Petersburg (Russia), London (UK), and Paris (France).
