Zeng Fanzhi: Near and Far/Now and Then
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Author: Fanzhi, Zeng
One of the most discussed exhibitions during the 2024 Venice Biennale, by renowned Chinese artist Zeng Fanzhi, is captured in this sumptuous volume. Shedding light on Zeng’s ambitious practice of redefining the abstract, this book features two recent bodies of work – oil paintings and works on handmade paper. In a world inundated with machine-rendered images, Zeng’s boundary-pushing experiments inspire viewers to experience the beauty and time-honored art and craft of painting.Emerging from the artist’s decades of research in colour theory, Zeng’s new oil paintings draw on and challenge Impressionist and pointillist practices, with layers of brushwork creating figurative elements that are readily recognisable from afar but dissolve when viewed up close. Zeng’s works on handmade paper, rendered in ink, graphite, chalk, gold dust and other mineral pigments, point to a new direction in his practice.
ISBN 9781636811789. DelMonico Books. pb. 292 pages. 195 colour, 1 b/w ills. 30.5 x 24.2 cm.
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One of the most discussed exhibitions during the 2024 Venice Biennale, by renowned Chinese artist Zeng Fanzhi, is captured in this sumptuous volume. Shedding light on Zeng’s ambitious practice of redefining the abstract, this book features two recent bodies of work – oil paintings and works on handmade paper. In a world inundated with machine-rendered images, Zeng’s boundary-pushing experiments inspire viewers to experience the beauty and time-honored art and craft of painting.Emerging from the artist’s decades of research in colour theory, Zeng’s new oil paintings draw on and challenge Impressionist and pointillist practices, with layers of brushwork creating figurative elements that are readily recognisable from afar but dissolve when viewed up close. Zeng’s works on handmade paper, rendered in ink, graphite, chalk, gold dust and other mineral pigments, point to a new direction in his practice.
ISBN 9781636811789. DelMonico Books. pb. 292 pages. 195 colour, 1 b/w ills. 30.5 x 24.2 cm.
available