Signed in Chinese and dated 'Zeng Fanzhi 94' lower right. That’s Shanghai Interview with Zhang Zuo Posted on February 28, 2014 by kudoz Last October, Wuhan-born Zeng Fanzhi set a new contemporary Asian art record with the US$23.3 million sale of his painting The Last Supper at Sotheby’s Hong Kong. Mr. Zeng’s assistant Liu Huaming has been an invaluable help throughout the planning of the exhibition. The Mask Series No. Instead, they are about ‘experience of miao wu (marvelous revelation).’ Further, he explains that miao wu does not related to any cognitive process, rather, it … Interview by Jin Jing. possible, to Michael Findlay for his interview with the artist, Emily Salas for her work on the catalogue and Garth Szwed for the installation. – Zeng Fanzhi, interview with Jing Daily, (2010). Zeng Fanzhi was born in 1964 in Wuhan, Hubei, and grew up during the later part of the Cultural Revolution in China. Documenting his unique style, the interview goes on to detail Fanzhi’s early struggles as an artist in China, and his early life in Wuhan, a city known for its prominent role in The Cultural Revolution. Zeng Fanzhi. 180 x 150 cm (70 7/8 x 59 in). 8. The next day I wanted to take it to the academy to show the teachers before the paint was dry.” (F. Zeng, in an interview with X. Li, “A Restless Soul,” I/We: The Painting of Zeng Fanzhi 1991 – 2003, Hubei, 2003, p. 156) Zeng has created only three Hospital triptychs, of which the present lot is the second. Zeng Fanzhi is considered one of Asia’s most sought-after living artists.
Research through visual means, Zeng calls his new works on show in Hong Kong, a mix of oil paintings inspired by Cézanne and pencil drawings rooted in classical Chinese style, and a … The Financial Times has published an interview with Zeng Fanzhi, the Chinese painter who currently sits as one of the most expensive contemporary Asian artists. Estimate £800,000 - 1,200,000 ‡ sold for £993,250. 21. Read More of 204 lots. Zeng Fanzhi, in an email interview, March 2011. Most of all our thanks go to Zeng Fanzhi for these remarkable works. Developing another mode of ‘masking’ his figures, Zeng explored the act of concealment with his radical luanbi method in the early 2000s.
Zeng Fanzhi achieved recognition in the 1990s for his "Hospital" and "Meat" paintings, both rendered in the artist's signature fleshy red tones. BRIC. Zeng Fanzhi speaks about curating the exhibition Cézanne, Morandi, and Sanyu at Gagosian, Hong Kong, and the connections between the three artists’ works. Zeng Fanzhi’s position as the famed ‘Mask Artist’ shifted at the turn of the millennium, when the artist began a new form of artistry. In an interview with Michael Findlay, Zeng Fanzhi states that his landscapes do not represent any real landscapes.
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At that time, Zeng Fanzhi expressed in an interview with Artxun journalists that he’s an artist, so he pays particularly close attention to charitable activities directed toward youths with dreams of becoming artists who were seriously injured in the Sichuan earthquake (of 2008). Zeng comments on his personal emotions, how they correlate to his paintings and the dialogue he creates in his images between the East and West. 14 - 15 April 2011 London 1. This source is an interview with Zeng Fanzhi, where he talks of the various themes in his work. His parents worked at a printing house, and he says that they encouraged him to take up painting "to keep me out of trouble, off the street."