Zeng xiaojun biography of albert

Born in Beijing where he currently resides in 1954.

Trained at Central Art and Craft Academy in Beijing.

Like Li Huayi, Zeng Xiaojun was drawn to the writhing, primordial forms of Chen Rong’s Nine Dragons.

Zeng Xiaojun B. CONNECTED TREES FROM THE FORBIDDEN CITY NO. 1 executed in signed in Chinese and marked with one seal of the artist ink on paper.

In China, I am greatly indebted to Wang Ningde (and Lisa), for the initial inspiration to pursue the study of photography in China, and for his many.

Born in Beijing in , Zeng Xiaojun graduated from the Central Art and Craft Academy of Fine Arts in Two years later, he moved to the United States and.

Bonhams Hong Kong will present an expanded sale of Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy: Classical, Modern and Contemporary Ink on 25 Sunday at pm.

Bollen, Johan, Mao, Huina, and Zeng, Xiaojun.

Zeng has reimagined the dragons in his new painting as aged, gnarled cypress trees, a favored subject of Zeng’s for many decades.

Zeng is also an authority on classical Chinese furniture. He is particularly interested in how scholar-artists of the late Ming dynasty became actively involved in fashioning their material environments.

For this project, Zeng plays this role himself, having designed and commissioned a sumptuous folding screen to accommodate his paintings. On one side of the screen, dragons are carved and lacquered into the wood panels, while the other side of the screen holds Zeng’s paintings of twisting cypress trees.

Section of Nine Trees, ink on paper, 2009

Front of Zitan wood screen, 2009

Detail from Zitan wood screen