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Untitled No. 18
Details
ZHENG CHONGBIN (B. 1961)
Untitled No. 18
Scroll, mounted and framed
Ink and acrylic on paper
75 x 80 cm. (29 1/2 x 31 1/2 in.)
Executed in 2007
Untitled No. 18
Scroll, mounted and framed
Ink and acrylic on paper
75 x 80 cm. (29 1/2 x 31 1/2 in.)
Executed in 2007
Literature
Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco (ed.), White Ink, 2011, p. 10.
Further details
ZHENG CHONGBIN (B. 1961)
Selected exhibitions
2014 Asian Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan (solo)
2013 Ink Studio, Beijing, China (solo)
Palazzo Mora, Venice Biennale, Italy (group)
2012 Asian Art Center, Beijing, China (solo)
Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong (solo)
Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (group)
2011 Chinese Culture Foundation, San Francisco, USA (solo)
2009 Asian Pacifc Art Museum, Pasadena, California, USA (solo)
1988 Shanghai Art Museum, China (group)
Notable collections
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, California, USA
British Museum, London, UK
Daimler Art Collection, Germany
DSL Collection, France
Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
Zheng Chongbin was born in Shanghai and attended the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts to study Chinese Paintings, where he taught for four years after graduating in 1984. In 1989 he was awarded the first International Fellowship to further his training at the San Francisco Art Institute, acquiring his MFA in 1991. He currently resides in San Francisco but works between California and Shanghai. Traditionally trained in Chinese ink painting, Zheng began to explore the notion of abstraction in his works in the 1980s whilst studying in San Francisco. His works attempt to put the traditional medium of Chinese ink into a universal, contemporary artistic context. Zheng is interested to explore how Chinese ink reacts physically with rice paper; he often paints his large format works on the floor with a short, fat brush. Zheng applies brushstrokes repetitively in ink and acrylic, sometimes on both sides of the paper. His compositions are complex; sometimes involve collage and overlapping of paper. Influenced by the post-war American school of Abstract Expressionism, Zheng uses bold gestural strokes to create compositions that explore the interplay between black, white and the tonalities in between.
Selected exhibitions
2014 Asian Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan (solo)
2013 Ink Studio, Beijing, China (solo)
Palazzo Mora, Venice Biennale, Italy (group)
2012 Asian Art Center, Beijing, China (solo)
Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong (solo)
Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (group)
2011 Chinese Culture Foundation, San Francisco, USA (solo)
2009 Asian Pacifc Art Museum, Pasadena, California, USA (solo)
1988 Shanghai Art Museum, China (group)
Notable collections
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, California, USA
British Museum, London, UK
Daimler Art Collection, Germany
DSL Collection, France
Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
Zheng Chongbin was born in Shanghai and attended the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts to study Chinese Paintings, where he taught for four years after graduating in 1984. In 1989 he was awarded the first International Fellowship to further his training at the San Francisco Art Institute, acquiring his MFA in 1991. He currently resides in San Francisco but works between California and Shanghai. Traditionally trained in Chinese ink painting, Zheng began to explore the notion of abstraction in his works in the 1980s whilst studying in San Francisco. His works attempt to put the traditional medium of Chinese ink into a universal, contemporary artistic context. Zheng is interested to explore how Chinese ink reacts physically with rice paper; he often paints his large format works on the floor with a short, fat brush. Zheng applies brushstrokes repetitively in ink and acrylic, sometimes on both sides of the paper. His compositions are complex; sometimes involve collage and overlapping of paper. Influenced by the post-war American school of Abstract Expressionism, Zheng uses bold gestural strokes to create compositions that explore the interplay between black, white and the tonalities in between.
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