HONG YI ZHUANG

Zhuang Hong Yi is a Chinese-born artist widely recognised internationally and considered among the most influential figures in contemporary Chinese art.

His work integrates his Chinese origins with European influences—having lived many years in the Netherlands—to create pieces that are cultural, material and chromatic syntheses.

The flower motif dominates his visual language: using painted rice-paper folded into hundreds of tiny buds, Zhuang builds pictorial installations that refer to nature’s cycle, transformation and chromatic perception.

His artistic practice challenges the boundaries between painting, object and relief: he layers rice-paper, employs folds, texture and a bold colour palette that appears to vibrate and shift with the viewer’s perspective.

Zhuang works between Europe (the Netherlands) and China (Beijing), giving his practice a rich cultural duality: a synthesis of East and West in both technique and aesthetics