Zeng xiaojun biography sample pdf

Live Auction Chinese Contemporary Ink. Lot Executed in Brought to you by. Sandy Yom. When you look at an old tree or a rock intently, focusing all your attention — the myriad different lines filled with inherent tension and energy begin to reveal themselves.

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The intertwined, serpentine branches have much vitality and beauty within. In turn, these esoteric objects become the subjects of his ink paintings. With careful, meticulous brushstroke, Zeng Xiaojun portrays the labyrinthine roots and twisted branches of old trees that reverberate with this scholarly tradition. The structures and organisms of nature are thus transformed into objects of abstract beauty.

The first impression of Zeng Xiaojun's painting is the vigorous and powerful presence of subterranean energy evinced solely through traditional Chinese calligraphic brushwork.

Zeng Xiaojun has a superb eye for texture, shape and detail. For the artist, the gnarled branches carry notions of decay and death, yet they also manifest the most elemental vigour of life: the ability to regenerate. Weathered trees carry traces left by the movement of the sun, and are merely waiting for a new beginning in the cycle of life.

Zeng paints with this spirit in mind and depicts all the intricate lines and structures that he can see and touch. He moved to the United States in and lived in Boston for over a decade. In the artist moved back to Beijing, his hometown. His pursuit in ink paintings returns to the ancient literary and artistic practice that he longs for.