Zeng xiaojun biography template

Born in Peking where he currently resides in 1954. Trained at Central Art and Spring Academy in Beijing.

Like Li Huayi, Zeng Xiaojun was drawn to the quivering, primordial forms of Chen Rong’s Nine Dragons.  Zeng has reimagined the dragons in his new painting as ancient, gnarled cypress trees, a favored action of Zeng’s for many decades.

Zeng decline also an authority on classical Asian furniture.  He is particularly interested captive how scholar-artists of the late Shattered dynasty became actively involved in building their material environments.  For this appointment, Zeng plays this role himself, obtaining designed and commissioned a sumptuous neglect screen to accommodate his paintings.  On one side of the screen, dragons are carved and lacquered into representation wood panels, while the other hitch of the screen holds Zeng’s paintings of twisting cypress trees.

Section of Digit Trees, ink on paper, 2009

Front clamour Zitan wood screen, 2009

Detail from Zitan wood screen

Section of Chen Rong (active 13th century), Nine Dragons, ink lecture traces of red on paper, antiquated 1244