Department of Outstanding Contemporary Chinese Artists. Ten artists from left: Su Xinping, Wang Lianmin, He Kun, Zheng Zhong, Kong Guoqiao, Wang Jiazeng, Zhang Guanghui, Xu Baozhong, Zhong Xi, Chen Qi.
Front row: Curator Dr. Guo Xiaochuan of China Academy of Arts, Academic Director of Shenzhen Academy of Arts Professor Qi Fengge.
Zhang Yinghe, director of the retired Municipal Bureau of Culture, recently contacted him to "collect works from his hometown that have produced personal collections" to display in the library, respect is not as good as obedience, in the studio he casually took the three ink paintings produced in recent years, the next day sent to the Zhang Bureau designated the municipal library service desk, originally thought that the matter was over.
Last night he was looking for something in the bookcase, inadvertently turned out two previous printmaking albums, couldn't help but sit down and read slowly, savored, and actually "beat his heart" to see the "sound of the strings" and read out things that he had not thought of before.
When the newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, the ignorant are fearless, from a small town in Central Suzhou to an isolated island with "nothing to do with modern art", he is like Chen Yisheng into the city like a literary and artistic youth to the National Art Museum of China to hold a solo exhibition, the first solo exhibition of an artistic youth is placed in China's highest art temple The National Art Museum of China, in the feelings of the people in his hometown he is simply "pompous"? However, in fact, it is indeed so, not only successfully held, but also set off a small storm in the academic circles in Beijing.
On November 11, 1997, the "Zheng Zhong Silk Screen Printmaking Exhibition" jointly sponsored by the Jiangsu Provincial Artists Association, the Jiangsu Provincial Printmaking Institute and the People's Government of Hai'an County was held at the National Art Museum of China, with Wang Qi, secretary of the party group of the China Artists Association and professor of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Tan Quanshu, vice chairman of the China Printmakers Association and professor of the Central Academy of Fine Arts (third from the right), Shen Qipeng, deputy director of the Nantong People's Congress and professor of Nantong University (third from the left), "Fine Arts" Magazine editor-in-chief Wang Zhong (second from left) Chu Youjie, deputy governor of Hai'an County People's Government (first from left), Li Shuqin, president of Jiangsu Printmaking Institute (first from right), painter Zheng Zhong (second from right)
Wang Guangying, vice chairman of the National People's Congress, visited the painting exhibition after attending the opening ceremony of Zheng Zhong's solo exhibition
Liu Yandong, director of the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee, visited the exhibition
First of all, CCTV "Art Starry Sky" for an exclusive interview, which in that era a painter can be on the "Art Starry Sky" is nothing more than a singer on the Spring Festival Gala, "China Youth Daily", "China Daily", "Xinhua Daily", "Jianghai Evening News", "Hai'an Daily" have been interviewed, "Fine Arts", "Jiangsu Pictorial", "Chinese Printmaking" for reporting and interviewing, and the later delay effect is that the Chinese art master Wu Guanzhong's autobiography "Landscape of Life" selected Zheng Zhong's works to participate in the cover. It is reported that at a national conference of art theorists held in Beijing, Professor Qi Fengge, dean of the Art College of Shenzhen University, took "The Landscape of Life" and said such an intriguing sentence when expounding a question: "Who does Wu Guanzhong look up to?" Wu Guanzhong looked at Zheng Zhong, a young artist who had just debuted."
If it doesn't sound, it has become a blockbuster.
The autobiography of the art master Wu Guanzhong", "Landscape of Life", selected Zheng Zhong's print "Sting Series" as the cover.
1997 China Youth Daily Interview "Zheng Zhong: The State of The Silk Screen"
Looking back on it today, the success of his solo exhibition at the National Art Museum of China in 1997 put his retrospective and forward-looking analysis of art on a new platform. From the perspective of a "county" palm-sized person, sitting in a well and watching the tianyu jumping dragon gate to the national platform, as an artist "it is easy to come here and there early in the world", the wind and clouds of this feng shui treasure land will be nothing less than a "storm of ideas" for his baptism and magnetization, opening the eyes, the path of the heart, and the road of discovery.
Retired from the army in 1985 and admitted to the fine arts department of Nantong Normal University, he studied five years later than his peers, and he had already run a few laps on the field before he was late.
From his graduation in 1988 to his solo exhibition at the National Art Museum of China in 1997, he spent 9 years, one more year than the 8-year War of Resistance.
However, in the past 9 years, he was not an art professional, and he was not a "painter" in the eyes of people, at best he was just an art lover.
At that time, his social identity was silk pattern designer, printing and dyeing engineer in charge of factory new product development, he did not pay attention, excess energy he became an inventor, after work he was still a boxer, played black boxing for several years, until no one challenged in the county to give up, soaked in the gym every day, won the first bodybuilding competition in Nantong 75 kg runner-up, Jiangsu Provincial TELEVISION push-up ring runner-up, also worked as a county gym coach for five or six years, 93 years as a manager, 94 years as a factory director, after work whim to do printmaking... He also won a marathon legendary lawsuit, which can be described as a desperate situation.
Every day that has not danced is a failure of life! Time is not waiting, only to fight for the day, in Hai'an, with the world in his heart, he can use it for two days a day!
It turns out that the physique of the naval special forces was created for art.
In the past 9 years, he has burned every cell of life, endured the embarrassment of life, the hardships of work, the polishing of bad luck, tired defeat and battle, never said defeat, laid the foundation of his century-old artistic life, and highlighted the essence of life that shows the true colors of heroes in the vicissitudes of the sea.
In October 1996, Guang Jun, director of the Printmaking Art Committee of the China Artists Association and professor of the Central Academy of Fine Arts (second from the left), Professor of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Wu Changjiang, vice chairman of the China Artists Association, and Tan Quanshu, vice chairman of the China Printmakers Association, and tan Quanshu, vice chairman of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, flew to Nantong to visit and guide zhengzhong's studio in Hai'an, and proposed to go to the National Art Museum of China in Beijing to make an exhibition of Zheng Zhong's silk screen prints. The first on the right is Zhang Yaguang, director of Nantong Television Station, and the second from the right is Zheng Zhong, a young artist.
What an impassioned, fiery era! Thanks for the gift of the thick soil of his hometown, thank him for his own self-confidence and even conceit, and praise for the young man Zheng Zhong!
In 1990, Zheng Zhong was the designer of Haian Silk Printing and Dyeing Factory.