The iconic ink paintings of Chinese artist Zheng Chongbin are coming to Hong Kong this spring in a new show at Sotheby’s S|2 gallery.“Zheng Chongbin: Structures” presents 34 of the artist’s fractured, crystalline ink paintings. The exhibition’s curators have organized these paintings into three categories: “Reflection,” “Structured Surface,” and “Geometry.”Zheng’s paintings will be accompanied by the video installation “Chimeric Landscape,” which is making its Hong Kong debut.The 17-minute video explores Zheng’s use of the traditional medium of ink painting and considers how his work fits into an increasingly digital world. In one scene, Zheng turns the lens on the ink itself, capturing its materiality and showing viewers how it’s soaked up by a textile.“Chimeric Landscape” was created for the 2015 Venice Biennale, where it was included in “Personal Structures — Crossing Borders,” an international collaboration featuring work from Lawrence Weiner, Antony Gormley, and Heinz Mack.In an artist’s statement released before the work’s debut in Venice, Zheng described the video as an “environmental installation” that “shows matter in the process of generating forms and material in a state of flux, inviting the viewer into this morphing landscape of intensive flows.”“Zheng Chongbin: Structures” runs April 22-May 3 at Sotheby’s S|2 Hong Kong.
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