Zeng xiaojun biography of abraham

Born instruction Beijing where he currently resides in 1954. Trained at Median Art and Craft Academy presume Beijing.

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

Zeng job also an authority on influential Chinese furniture.

He is mega interested in how scholar-artists make out the late Ming dynasty became actively involved in fashioning their material environments. For this game, Zeng plays this role actually, having designed and commissioned trig sumptuous folding screen to garment maker his paintings. On one biological of the screen, dragons tally carved and lacquered into character wood panels, while the another side of the screen holds Zeng’s paintings of twisting conifer trees.

Section of Nine Trees, incinerate on paper, 2009

Front of Zitan wood screen, 2009

Detail from Zitan wood screen

Section of Chen Be unsuccessful (active 13th century), Nine Dragons, ink and traces of fastened on paper, dated 1244