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Artist

Zeng Yang

Zeng Yang (b.1981) is the 21st-generation descendant of the great master Wodao Chong of the Western Xia Confucianism. Zeng Yang's art is primarily inspired by Pure Land Buddhism. His representative work, "Amitabha’s Boundless World of Infinite Life," has been the main focus of his artistic career for over a decade. He is currently the only artist in the contemporary art field who centers his works around the Pure Land Buddhism. His works have been collected by institutions such as the Awakening Truth Temple of the Pure Land School and the Pushou Temple of Mount Wutai.

Artist

Huang Wei

Huang Wei (b.1985) was born in Baotou, Inner Mongolia. Graduated in 2011 from the Chinese Painting Department of Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts with a Bachelor's degree. Graduated in 2014 from the School of Arts of Tibet University with a Master's degree. Currently lives and works in Beijing. The 3 years of living and working in Tibet allowed the artist to systematically sort out Tibetan painting, and combined with his own solid foundation in ink painting, he created a new artistic expression language. Using the traditional "collision color" technique of Chinese painting on xuan paper, he expresses a misty effect, then renders the structure of specific objects. The coloring process is mainly done with dry brush dotting, and finally some ""destructive"" texture strokes enrich the texture of the picture. The "dotting" technique, which originates from the traditional Thangka painting technique of Tibet, requires an extremely quiet state, repeated countless times, approaching a state of meditation, which is also consistent with the spiritual pursuit of the great achievers in the Himalayan region. Huang Wei's works have been exhibited in Tianjin Western Art Museum, Beijing Today Art Museum and Beijing Manet Grassland Art Museum.

Artist

Huang Zhen

Huang Zhen (b.1983), born in Xi'an in 1983, graduated from the Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts with a major in Comprehensive Painting. He obtained a degree in Oil Painting from the same academy in 2009. In 2021-2022, he was a visiting scholar at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. He has participated in exhibitions at important institutions both in China and abroad, including the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, the Rome Academy of Fine Arts in Italy, and the Shaanxi Art Museum. He has also collaborated with various commercial brands, including Skechers, Beijing Public Transport Group, Six Bottles, Chengmo Cultural & Creative, and Chunfengxixi.

Artist

Hsiao Chin

Hsiao Chin (1935- 2023) was born in Shanghai in 1935 and is celebrated as a pioneer of modern abstract art. As a co-founder of Punto Movement in Milan during 1961-1966, Hsiao is the first and only post-war Chinese artist attempting to convey Eastern philosophical ideas and the concepts of mindfulness and self-contemplation in the Western pictorial language of abstraction. Hsiao's works are not only artistic representations of Asian philosophy but, in a broader context, are an intellectualised expression of Asian ideas in their essential forms. The understanding of the entire post-war avant-garde art scene would not be complete without mentioning Hsiao Chin and the Punto Movement, along with American Abstract Expressionism, French Lyrical Abstraction, and Japanese Gutai. Hsiao uses a limited range of colours and basic geometric forms to represent the infiniteness of the universe. A minimal style in both paintings, skilfully combined with the sharp contrast between colours and shapes, elevates the conflict expressed in the works. The simple, compact and asymmetric composition of the works renders a kind of beauty that is fully refined and sublime. Such simple and modest representation of beauty is rooted from the philosophical thoughts of Zen in the East. His works can be found in major collections around the world including Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), M+ Museum (Hong Kong), Musée Guimet (Paris), National Galerie (Rome), Long Museum (Shanghai),etc.