Feng Zhengjie 俸正杰
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Feng Zhengjie is one of China's best-known painters, noted for his gaudy, futuristic portraits of fashionable women. His portraits are splashed with neon colors, featuring women with red hair, luscious lips and zany, wild-eyed expressions. A graduate of the distinguished Sichuan Fine Arts Academy, Feng's images are believed to be portraits of rampant consumerism, the emergence of pop culture and the glamour of a new age. Born in 1968, Feng lives and works in Beijing.[1]
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Date & Place of Birth
Feng Zhengjie was born in 1968 in Sichuan, China.
Education & Development
Feng earned his Bachelors degree in 1992 from the Fine Arts Department of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts. Feng continued on at Sichuan for graduate school, and in 1995, received a Masters degree from the Oil Painting Department.
Art
Feng's women are pop idols, glamorous faces from a futuristic pop world. All artists who have studied painting in China’s art academies, as Feng Zhengjie did, have an excellent training in Realism but Feng rejected Socialist Realism and Western academic art and was influenced, instead, by the billboard images he saw growing up in rural China. Developing as an artist during the turbulent years when China’s economy was changing and the country was opening up to the outside world, Feng made use of the access he had to Pop culture and the imagery associated with it to develop a manner of painting that includes a critique of the growing consumer culture in modern China. The full frontal faces of Feng’s women are scaled up to huge proportions. They are idealised as young and beautiful but have a strange far away look in their eyes that introduces an enigmatic quality behind their commodified desire. This has been interpreted as an expression of the divide that exists between the inner life of the individual and the outer face turned to the world. [2]
Exhibitions
Since 2005, Feng has held solo exhibitions Milan, Taichun, Lyon, Tokyo, and New York. He has participated in many important group exhibitions, including Made In China at Willem Kerseboom Fine Art in the Netherlands in 2005.
For Feng Zhengjie's full exhibition history, click here.
Gallery Affiliation(s)
Feng Zhengjie is represented by many galleries, including ArtChina Gallery in Hamburg, Rita Krauss in New York City, Opera Gallery in Paris, and Wedel Fine Art in London.
Acquisitions & Auctions
Feng's paintings have sold at auction for as much as $180,000 a piece.[1]
For Feng Zhengjie's auction record, click here.
References
88MoCCA - The Museum of Chinese contemporary art on the web: Feng Zhengjie
http://www.initialaccess.co.uk/artist.php?aid=31&id=2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feng_Zhengjie
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://www.artzinechina.com/display_vol_aid579_en.html
- ↑ www.initialaccess.co.uk/artist.php?aid=31&id=2
