Zheng Chongbin's Slant of Forest Light (2024) is included in Para Site's Annual Benefit Auction.
The 2024 Para Site Benefit Auction is now live at www.ps2024auction.com. The auction this year features over sixty artworks and experiences generously donated by artists, galleries, and friends from all over the world. All proceeds will go directly towards keeping Para Site's ambitious, artist-centric exhibitions and programmes free to the public.
Opening Reception: 13 November 2024, 6–8pm
Auction Preview Dates: 14–17 November 2024, 12–8pm
Location: 9/F, H Queen’s, 80 Queen's Road Central, Central
Bidding on live lots closes on Tue 19 Nov at 12pm HKT, and bidding on silent lots closes on Wed 20 Nov at 10:30 HKT.
Slant of Forest Light《鈄陽》
2024
Ink, Acrylic and Pigment on Xuan Paper
125 x 96 cm
Systematically exploring and deconstructing figure, texture, space, geometry, gesture, materiality, Zheng Chongbin explores the notion of the world as always in flux, consisting of flows of matter and energy that repeatedly cohered and dissipated. Through the interactions of ink, acrylic, water, and xuan paper, Zheng’s paintings generate and record the processes that underlie the emergence of order. His paintings resemble natural structures ranging from neurons, blood vessels, and tree branches to mountains, rivers, and coastlines, but by instantiating their formation rather than by objective depiction. Zheng Chongbin was educated as a classical Chinese figurative painter at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou. In 1989, Zheng received a fellowship from the San Francisco Art Institute and has been a resident of the San Francisco Bay Area for over three decades, being continuously inspired by the California light and space movement, and the region’s rich ecologies. Zheng’s work can be found in the collections, among others, of the British Museum, London; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Asian Art Museum of San Francisco; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Brooklyn Museum; Chicago Art Institute; and M+ Museum, Hong Kong. In 2025, Zheng Chongbin will be presenting a solo exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and a permanent installation at the Museum of East Asian Art in Cologne.
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