Zhuang Hong Yi
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Floral Maze"
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
27.5" x 27.5"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Floral Maze" (detail)
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
27.5" x 27.5"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 4 + 5" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
35.5" x 106.5"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 4 + 5" (detail) SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
35.5" x 106.5"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Morning Ray" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
31.5" x 79"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 17" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
47.25" x 35.5"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 17" (detail) SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
47.25" x 35.5"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Landscape 78" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
60"
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 78" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
39.5" x 39.5"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 78" (detail) SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
39.5" x 39.5"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Sino Sunset" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
59" x 35.5"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Sino Sunset" (detail) SOLD
Ink, acrylic, and rice paper on canvas
59" x 35.5"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 4" SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
43" x 55"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 4" (detail) SOLD
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
43" x 55"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 38"
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
47" x 39"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Flowerbed 38" (details)
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
47" x 39"
Zhuang Hong Yi, "Nature's Rotation"
Ink, acrylic and rice paper on canvas
27.7" x 35.5"
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.
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.