The Los Angeles County Museum of Artwork (Lacma) is planning to carry an exhibition of recent works by Zeng Fanzhi in Venice. Coinciding with the sixtieth Venice Biennale, Close to and much/every now and then It will likely be on show on the Scuola Grande della Misericordia with an set up designed by architect Tadao Ando (April 17 to September 30).
Co-curated by Lacma Director Michael Govan and Stephen Little, Curator of the Museum’s Division of Chinese language Artwork, the exhibition will debut two current works by Zeng Fanzhi: summary oil work and Produced in ink, graphite, chalk and gold mud on handmade paper, the works mix Christian, Buddhist and Taoist imagery.
“Zeng Fanzhi’s work makes use of two several types of supplies: one thick, topographical, and the opposite skinny, translucent,” Little mentioned in a press release. “His work additionally requires two reverse methods to have interaction the viewer – one distant, the opposite very intimate. Combining the Asian and European traditions it depicts, this exhibition will information viewers to find the artist’s ingenious A discovery impressed by the stress of its use.”
Govan calls Zeng’s work a “stability of technical mastery and emotion.”
- Pupil Zeng: Close to and Far/Now and ThatApril 17 to September 30, Scuola Grande della Misericordia, Venice
