Lonely Cloud, Gordon River, Chen Ping
Oil on canvas, 150cm x 120cm
Provenance: Lawsons, Sydney.
Chen Ping was trained at the prestigious Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and has most notably, exhibited twice at the Venice Biennale (2013 and 2017). Ping now produces his contemporary figurative works at his studio in Tasmania. The foundation of Ping’s works is his meditation on life. He combines his traditional Chinese values with the exploration of ideas from a modern Western viewpoint. His landscapes are created with broad colour strokes with Chinese characters incorporated.
Artist Statement
‘My work is a complex and inclusive art language. It is neither purely abstract nor purely expressive, while being both conceptual and realistic." (1)