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Jade Series No. 1
72x70cm
Rice paper, color ink
In 2022
Zheng Zhong
He is a member of the China Artists Association and the vice president of the Beijing Guoyixuan Calligraphy and Painting Institute. Born in Hai'an, Jiangsu Province in 1962, he was a diver of the Navy's South China Sea Fleet from 1979 to 1985, graduated from the School of Fine Arts of Nantong University in 1988, graduated from the graduate class of the Printmaking Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1999, taught at the Printmaking Department of Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts from 2000 to 2004, and was grandly promoted as a "Master of Fine Arts" in the "Art Observation" of the China Academy of Art in 1997. In 1998, Beijing Literature and Art Publishing House published Wu Guanzhong's autobiography "Landscape of Life" to select Zheng Zhong's works as the cover, and in 2002, he was approved by the Nantong Municipal Archives Bureau as the 144th historical and cultural celebrity in the history of Nantong (F144) and now lives in Beijing and Nantong.
In 1993, he won the gold medal of "The Second China Youth Science and Technology Expo";
In 1993, he won the silver medal of the second exhibition of the Fifth National Three-Edition Exhibition of Chinese Printmaking Prints;
In 1993, he won the Liao Xiuping Outstanding Printmaking Award in the United States;
In 1996, he won the bronze medal of the 13th National Printmaking Exhibition;
In 1996, he won the Liao Xiuping Excellent Printmaking Award in the United States;
In 1996, he won the Ding Shaoguang Award for Excellence in the National Fine Arts Exhibition;
In 1999, he won the Annual Excellent Work Award issued by the Central Academy of Fine Arts;
In 1999, he won the Lu Xun Printmaking Award for Outstanding Chinese Printmakers in the 1980s and 1990s issued by the China Print Association;
In 2011, he was selected for the International Printmaking and Watercolor Painting Original Works Exhibition (Paris, France);
In 2012, he was selected as the invitation exhibition and summit forum of artists with the most academic value and market potential in contemporary times;
In 2017, he was awarded the "Most Collectible Artist Award" by the "Collection Investment Guide".
In 2017, "Gu Yin Series One" was selected as one of the top 500 global ink painting exhibitions in Hong Kong.
In 2019, he won the first prize of China (Jinan) International Abstract Art Exhibition.
In 2021, "Clouds and Dreams of the Sea" was selected as one of the top 500 global ink painting exhibitions in Hong Kong.
Since 1997, he has held solo exhibitions at the National Art Museum of China, Nicoxian Cultural Center, Helsinki Cultural Center (Chinese Culture Week), Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum, Beijing Kechuang Art Garden, Beijing Hilton Hotel, Long Island Art Museum in New York, and Forest China Art Museum.
His works are collected by the National Art Museum of China, the Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum, and the Guangdong Provincial Art Museum.
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Jazz in ink painting
Text/Jiang Haizi
Art history is originally a history of the development of artistic language, which is the concept of art history formed in the late 19th century to the present.
The first stage belongs to the system of realism,
The second stage belongs to the formalist system,
The third stage, after pop art in the late 1960s, is called the stage of contemporary art.
Contemporary art is actually a concept of overall art in terms of language, that is, the integration of various linguistic means in the creation of a work.
This reminds us of jazz.
Jazz features: improvisation or performance, the use of blues scales, the extreme complexity of jazz rhythms, unique jazz chords, unique use of timbre.
I was once fortunate enough to be enchanted at sea in the performance and performance of the Rolling Stones, from which I remembered the process of Zheng Zhong's ink art's understanding and interpretation of the ontological language of painting.
Since the early 1990s, Zheng Zhong's silkscreen prints have produced a dark horse and ridden a dark horse in the Chinese printmaking industry with a new look. It is a unique language, a novelty of schemas and an independent chapter. He is an impromptu "jazz" made with the rationality of a designer, the meticulousness of an engineer, the genius of an inventor, and his strong physique. More than 20 years of printmaker career has formed his "sense of light" and "sense of quantity" color scale system, which is abstract rhythm, image feelings, traditional Chinese humanistic feelings, such as "Mi Zi Ge", "Sting" and other works.
Guanlan Printmaking Village gave him an extremely precious "Hundred Years of Solitude", which allowed him to face the wall clearly, return to the light, reflexively, and touch the "contemporary ink painting" from the beginning of the material, at that time, due to his neglect of the understanding of the ink painting world, it seemed to be interlaced like a mountain.
But interlacing is not separated, in the six years of the second north drift, he is rational, submerged in satire, immersed in it, and suddenly penetrated.
All are visual arts, all are the expression and transmission of artistic language, and true feelings are good articles.
From the spiritual preliminary exploration of the "Guyin Series", to the breath of "Cloud Dream Canghai", to the upgraded version of "Pure Jade Series" of "Cloud Dream Canghai", it is from the macroscopic scene to the microscopic world, from the grand narrative to the murmur of the local area, to appeal to Hugh, to convey the sound in the air, to express the colorful and pure attributes of "jade", water is flowing jade, jade is solidified "water", the momentary solidification of "cloud dream", the guidance of emotion and imagination of the Xintian travel work is also true and illusory jazz music, this is Zheng Zhong's new ink painting "Pure Jade Series" The unique charm lies in the fact that this is undoubtedly another new insight in language and a new interpretation of contemporary Chinese ink painting.
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Jade Series No. 3
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Jade Series No. 4
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Jade Series No. 5
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Jade Series No. 6
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Jade Series No. 7
72x70cm
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Jade Series No. 8
72x70cm
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Jade Series No. 9
72x70cm
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Jade Series No. 10
72x70cm
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Jade Series No. 11
72x70cm
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Jade Series No. 12
72x70cm
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Jade Series No. 13
72x70cm
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Jade Series No. 14
72x70cm
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Jade Series No. 15
36x140cm
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Jade Series No. 16
36x140cm
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Jade Series No. 17
36x140cm
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Jade Series No. 18
36x140cm
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Jade Series No. 19
140x36cm
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