Biography
1979 December 28, born in Daqing, hometown is Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia.
Living in Beijing now,independent artist.
In China, it is a time full of Cheap-Copy behavior, but the praise of originality among artists reaches so high that even has arrived the point of deliberateness. The artists are too afraid of being accused suspicious of copying to avoid others pointing out their works resembling some famous ones. Only Fang Shnegyi says frankly: "During the time I’m interested in the problem of Cheap Copy, I only do what others have done and gained wide recognition." This is not only pondering over the formation of culture, but also studying of the relationship between works of art: this suggests that among all the works of art, there exists the mechanism of interaction, and the so-called new art is generated from different operations within the mechanism.
Fang Shengyi explicitly put forward his view of artistic creation as “Characterism" in 2009. The term is borrowed directly from the expression of "the socialism with Chinese characteristics", aiming to grasp the local features of contemporary culture in China, which means the Cheap Copy phenomenon in various professions of different degrees. In specific working, he does not only hold the most important pirating spirit of Cheap Copy, also pay attention to the stronghold of the original are often surprising changes, but also gives attention to the unexpected changes to the original version often happened in the making of Cheap Copy, since these may give an independent significance of Cheap Copy cultural.
