
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Blueberry Fields" ON HOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
24" x 24"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Eruption of Colours"
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
53.5" x 53.5"
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 58"
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
63" x 23.5"
Zhuang Hong Yi "Flowerbed Cherry Blossom"
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
47.25" x 87"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Landscape 78"
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
60"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Nature's Rotation"
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
35.5" x 27.5"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 4 + 5"
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
35.5" x 106.5"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 4 + 5" (detail)
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
35.5" x 106.5"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 17"
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
47.25" x 35.5"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 17" (detail)
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
47.25" x 35.5"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 24"
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
27.5" x 27.5"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 24" (detail)
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
27.5" x 27.5"
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 28"
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
12" x 19.5"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 28" (detail)
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
12" x 19.5"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Sino Sunset"
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
59" x 35.5"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Sino Sunset" (detail)
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
59" x 35.5"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 15"
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
71" x 55"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 15" (detail)
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
71" x 55"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 26"
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
39" x 39"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 26" (detail)
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
39" x 39"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 38"
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
47" x 39"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 38" (detail)
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
47" x 39"
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, "Flowerbed 92"
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
51" x 43"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 92" (details)
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
51" x 43"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 88"
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
47" x 84"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 88" (detail)
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
47" x 84"
Zhuang Hong Yi "Landscape 15"
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
47"x 83"
Zhuang Hong Yi "Landscape 42"
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
39" x 70"
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 75" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
47.25" x 71"
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 14" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
39" x 39"
Zhuang Hong Yi "Flowerbed 14" (detail) SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
39" x 39"
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Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 120" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
47" x 39.5"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 87" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
47" x 63"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 87" (detail) SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
47" x 63"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 47" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
31.5" x 67"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 47" (detail) 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 45" (detail) SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
63" x 23.5"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 80" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
35.5" x 35.5"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 80" (detail) SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
35.5" x 35.5"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 98" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
51" x 90.50"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 98" (detail) 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 48" (detail) SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
47" x 47"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 22" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
43"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 22" (detail) SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
43"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 34" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
31.50" x 87"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 34" (detail) 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 43" (detail) SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
71" x 63"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 14" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
39"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 14" (detail) SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
39"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 75" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
39"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 75" (detail) 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 "Flowerbed 93" (detail) 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.
Museum de Zwarte Tulp (the Black Tulip) is currently displaying the first solo exhibition of the Chinese artist Zhuang Hong Yi in The Netherlands in almost 10 years. It is a retrospective exhibition with key works from the period 2003 – 2018. The source of inspiration for the collages, ‘Landscapes’ and ‘Flowerbeds’ which can be seen in the museum, were the endless, colorful flower bulb fields that Zhuang saw glide away below him on his first flight from China to The Netherlands.
In time for spring, celebrated Asian sculptural painter, Zhuang Hong Yi, will unveil his newest works in the highly anticipated solo exhibition titled 'Essence'. Launching HOFA Gallery, London, on 8 March the show is centred on the artist's message of hope and positivity, conveyed by the mesmerising intensity and emotiveness of colours inspired by nature. 'Essence' is an abstract contemporary take on escapism, dwelling not on pleasurable activities but on the pleasure of an intimate and subjective encounter with the beauty and colours of nature. Its pleasure unfurls in the mind, taking viewers’ thoughts momentarily away from the strains of the present to the familiar yet uninhibited beauty of nature. The artist's distinctive teeming and vibrant 3-dimensional floral paintings have endeared him to art collectors and nature enthusiasts across the globe.
In a creative step for two illustrious London brands, Bergman Interiors and HOFA Gallery are launching AEDITIONS, their new joint design project, on 20 May 2021. Inspired by their appreciation for contemporary art and bespoke luxury interiors, AEDITIONS will specialise in creating one-of-a-kind décor and furniture designs in collaboration with the world's most remarkable contemporary artists and designers. Among the first designs to be released this spring are creations by celebrated sculptural painter, Zhuang Hong Yi, whose signature 3-dimensional flowerbed paintings are coveted for their sensational colour vibrance and emphatic homage to flowers. Hong Yi has created unique table light, chair and console designs fit for any nature-lover's dream.
Article in french | Pour la première fois depuis dix ans, le musée de la Tulipe Noire, à Lisse (tout près d’Amsterdam), offre une petite rétrospective des œuvres de Zhuang Hong Yi depuis 2003. Des abstractions lumineuses, inspirées par les champs de tulipes et engagées pour l’environnement. À deux pas du fameux parc Keukenhof, non loin d’Amsterdam, voici de drôles d’œuvres qu’on hésite à qualifier de peintures ou de collages. Petites ou grandes, lumineuses, presque phosphorescentes, elles changent de couleur et d’apparence, selon que l’on se place face à elles, qu’on les regarde depuis la droite ou la gauche. Les contempler constitue une véritable expérience sensorielle. Elles rayonnent, fascinent… Mais sont-elles vraiment des abstractions ?
The Chinese artist Zhuang Hong Yi (*1962 Sichuan / China I lives in Rotterdam and Beijing) combines imaginary opposites almost without effort and condenses them into space-consuming wall objects which, due to their seductive haptic character and enchanting dynamic palette of colours, appear rather as installative wall objects than paintings. He calls them Flowerbeds, these flowerheads which sprout equally from the canvas, sometimes tenderly fragile, sometimes deliberately voluminous. In their material language of rice paper, ink and varnish, they quote Chinese handicrafts to seek for a place to sprout between European NeoImpressionism and Western Abstraction. The Museum Ulm presents a selection of works by Zhuang Hong Yi in a solo museum exhibition for the first time in Germany from March 03 to June 17, 2018.