Lan Zhenghui
Lan Zhenghui, is a contemporary artist who is active in Beijing and Toronto, and is known for his monumental abstract-ink painting.
In 2013, during the Art Basel-Miami Beach, an international gathering of top artists from around the world, Lan was included in one of the influential art exhibitions, “28 CHINESE” the Rubell Family Collection, which is considered a barometer for Chinese contemporary art collectors. Lan was the only participant who works with ink.
He transmits the “strokes” of traditional Chinese calligraphy into the “structure” of modern painting, the “freehand” of traditional Chinese painting into the “expression” of modern painting.
Returning to the colorful world is an important part in Lan’s recent exploration. He is researching the best way to control the basic visual factor in multi-element situations, which needs a unique understanding from artist, so that eternal visual value with beauty & harmony can be generated.
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One of China’s leading contemporary artists, has been greatly noted for a debut of his majestic installation ‘Ink Monument’ at Art Central Hong Kong (Hong Kong Art Week),2016, presented by Ethan Cohen New York. Lan Zhenghui’s installation Ink Monument towered more than five meters high, with a colossal four-sided column of large-scale ink paintings on rice paper.
Lan is renowned for taking the freehand strokes of traditional Chinese painting to new, monumental levels by infusing them with the abstractions and expressiveness found in modern painting.
“The focus of my work is the profound consideration and the emotion of the ink, I want my work to bring the dynamic of hope and enjoyment, like a musical melody”.The source of Lan’s inspiration is derived from ink. Occupying the aesthetic confluence between traditional Chinese Ink painting and Western abstract expressionism, Lan Zhenghui’s work reinvents both.
Lan’s work is featured in the U.S. in the national travelling exhibition titled 28 Chinese, an exhibition of Chinese artists gathered by American collectors Don and Mera Rubell after ten years of visiting artist studios in China. The travelling exhibition was launched during Art Basel Miami, 2017, and has travelled to the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco and the San Antonio Museum of Art.
Furthermore, Lan’s work appears in the public collections of the China National Art Museum in Beijing; the Consul General of the British Consulate at Guangzhou; the Chinese Cultural Centre of Toronto, Canada; and the Artron Group of China, among others. He is represented by Ethan Cohen New York and Canadian Fine Arts in Toronto.
The artist has been selected by some of the world’s leading luxury brands for special projects, including Mercedes-Maybach and Volkswagen Phaeton.
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