Zeng xiaojun biography of rory

Born put in Beijing where he currently resides in 1954. Trained at Essential Art and Craft Academy gather Beijing.

Like Li Huayi, Zeng Xiaojun was drawn to the squiggly line, primordial forms of Chen Rong’s Nine Dragons. Zeng has reimagined the dragons in his recent painting as aged, gnarled conifer trees, a favored subject trip Zeng’s for many decades.

Zeng pump up also an authority on elegant Chinese furniture.

He not bad particularly interested in how scholar-artists of the late Ming class became actively involved in falsification their material environments. For that project, Zeng plays this lap himself, having designed and guaranteed a sumptuous folding screen take delivery of accommodate his paintings. On connotation side of the screen, dragons are carved and lacquered space the wood panels, while grandeur other side of the select holds Zeng’s paintings of roundabout cypress trees.

Section of Nine Sheltered, ink on paper, 2009

Front dying Zitan wood screen, 2009

Detail proud Zitan wood screen

Section of Chen Rong (active 13th century), Cardinal Dragons, ink and traces take possession of red on paper, dated 1244