
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Milky Way"
Ink, acrylic, and rice paper on canvas
39" x 39"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Avril"
Ink, acrylic, and rice paper on canvas
31.50"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Color Bloom"
Ink, acrylic, and rice paper on canvas
59" x 27.50"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Dark Mystery"
Ink, acrylic, and rice paper on canvas
47"
Zhuang Hong Yi "Iridescence"
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
47" x 86.50"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Blurry Dream"
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
63" x 71"
Zhuang Hong Yi "Flowers Come and Go"
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
51" x 94.50"
Zhuang Hong Yi "Rain or shine" ON HOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
71" x 47"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Summer Dream"
Ink, acrylic, and rice paper on canvas
47" x 71"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "La Vie en Rose"
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
55" x 71"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "True Pink"
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
39" x 39"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Chromatic"
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
46.50" x 77"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Euphoria"
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
28.5" x 28.5"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Labyrinth" ON HOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
63" d
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Morning Frost"
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
20" x 12"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Kaleidoscope Dreams"
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
47" x 59"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Rise"
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
12" x 12"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Golden Hour"
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
12" x 12"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Eternity"
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
67" x 47.5"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Midnight Crossing"
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
23.5" x 79"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Evergreen"
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
20" x 12"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 58"
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
63" x 23.5"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Mountains rise and fall"
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
79" x 94.5"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Queen of the Night"
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
55" x 39"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Eruption of Colours"
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
53.5" x 53.5"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Borderline"
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
39" x 70"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 64"
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
67" x 31.5"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 64" (detail)
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
67" x 31.5"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 07"
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
47" x 102"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 07" (detail)
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
47" x 102"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 70"
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
16" x 16"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 70" (detail)
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
16" x 16"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 37"
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
20" x 20"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 37" (detail)
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
20" x 20"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Landscape 78" ON HOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
60"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Aurora Borealis" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
53" x 53"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Blaze" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
40" x 60"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Evening Cherry Blossom" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
47" x 83"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Night Bloom, Dawn Rising" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
63" x 23.5"
Zhuang Hong Yi, Horizon SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
67" diameter
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Ultraviolet" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
20" x 20"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 4 + 5" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
35.5" x 106.5"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Purple Rain" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
47" x 79"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Horizon" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
67" d
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Still Waters Run Deep" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
67" x 67"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Polar Light" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
31.5" x 79"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Early Bloom in Spring" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
39" x 59"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Deep Dive" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
47" x 83"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Full Bloom" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
59" x 39"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Prism" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
14" x 94.5"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Northern Lights" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
47" x 47"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Cherry Blossom at Dusk" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
39.5" x 79"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Meteor Shower" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
63" x 24"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Moonlight, Underwater" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
32" d
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Twilight Zone" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
39" x 47"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Stardust" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
47" x 39"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Dusk 'til Dawn" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
75" d
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Abyss" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
47" x 39"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Rosebed" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
24" d
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Violet Fields" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
27.5" x 35.5"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "December" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
27.5" d
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 15" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
71" x 55"
Zhuang Hong Yi "Flowerbed Cherry Blossom" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
47.25" x 87"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 49" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
53" x 53"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 141" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
47.25" x 47.25"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 89" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
39.5"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Morning Ray" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
31.5" x 79"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 120" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
47" x 39.5"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 47" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
31.5" x 67"
Zhuang Hong Yi ,"Flowerbed 45" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
63" x 23.5"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 98" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
51" x 90.50"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 48" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
47" x 47"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 34" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
31.50" x 87"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 43" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
71" x 63"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 75" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
39"
Zhuang Hong Yi "Flowerbed 93" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
47" x 110"
Zhuang Hong Yi was born in China in 1962. The flower motif dominates Zhuang Hong Yi’s work – a significant image in Chinese culture which carries countless meanings and emotions with equally strong associations in the Netherlands, world-famous for its flowers. He works patiently and religiously on this subject year-after-year, intricately crafting his works with care and forethought. Zhuang Hong Yi’s well-known and highly collectable Flowerbeds are crafted from delicate pieces of painted rice paper, which he has bent and folded into hundreds of tiny buds, creating seductive and tactile works.
In his latest collection, Zhuang Hong Yi has developed his technique from working with a single uniform colour to creating dual and triple coloured works that subtlety shift from one dominant colour to another as you move your body and eyes from one side of the work to the other, adding movement and a visual tactilness to the works. Utilizing the traditional Chinese material of rice paper, the works represent Chinese aesthetics, meditations on colour, nature and form with an emphasis on technique and uniformity. His focus and handling of the material are all lessons adopted from the Sichuan College of Fine Arts, where he first studied.
Zhuang Hong Yi’s painted canvases bear the influence of Impressionism and other Western artistic practices. Working with a freedom of style, as if liberated from his native country’s well-established artistic traditions and boundaries, his impasto strokes of daring, bright colours are expressive and unconfined. Colours melt together and paint drips down the canvas, seeping over a collage of delicate unfolded rice paper flowers. The sculptural three-dimensionality of the artworks makes them both painting and object. Messiness, variety and chance are all embraced and are drawing the viewer in, encouraging contemplation as they immerse us in a tapestry of colour and form.
Contemporary artist Zhuang Hong Yi is based in the Netherlands but was brought up in China. It is this combination of Chinese background and European influence that defines Zhuang Hong Yi’s work. Embracing his present without losing his past, he attempts to define a sense of self that exists between the two. Zhuang Hong Yi enacts this personal struggle visually vacillating between phases of controlled planning, emotional gesture and careful editing, creating works that represent beauty, sophistication and perfection.
Zhuang Hong Yi studied at the Sichuan College of Fine Arts in Chongqing in China and perfected his technique at the Minerva Academy in Groningen in the Netherlands. He has exhibited throughout Europe and China. His works are held in numerous esteemed public and private collections worldwide and has been the subject of multiple museum exhibitions at Groninger Museum in the Netherlands.