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Zeng Fanzhi - Punta della Dogana, Venise (English, French, Italian edition)

Zeng Fanzhi (né en 1964) - Publisher Beaux arts Editions - Ouvrage broché - 44 pages - Text in Français / English / Italiano - Published in 21/08/2013

As a center for contemporary art, the Punta della Dogana presents a permanent exhibition of works from the François Pinault Collection. Each year, an artists is invited to create a specific project for the center. The first edition of this program is opened by the chinese artist Zeng Fanzhi.

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Model 9791020400451
Artist Zeng Fanzhi (né en 1964)
Author Collectif
Publisher Beaux arts Editions
Format Ouvrage broché
Number of pages 44
Language Français / English / Italiano
Dimensions 285 x 220
Published 21/08/2013
Epoque Art conteporain
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Museum Punta della Dogana, Venise

Zeng Fanzhi was born in 1964 in Wuhan, a densely populated city of Southern China and a nerve centre of the country. There, as young man, he experienced the Chinese Cultural Revolution and the propaganda of Mao’s regime. Today he lives and works in Beijing.

In the mid 1990s, Zeng produced a series of paintings in which the characters wear white masks with big smiles, all the same, and which are disturbingly fused with the facial features. Tinged with hints of German Expressionism, these representations of the occidentalization of Chinese society bear witness to the loss of historical and social references, the solitude and alienation of a people that has now chosen individualism.

In his more recent paintings of landscapes, such as the two works titled The Land So Rich in Beauty (2010), the artist moves away from the representation of the human figure to come closer to abstraction, produced with an expressionist technique.

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