Artist: Feng Zhengjie

LE PAPILLON AMOUREUX

By Feng Zhengjie

Artwork Description

Dimensions: 73 3/4 by 74 7/8 in. 187 by 190.3 cm.

Medium: oil on canvas

LE PAPILLON AMOUREUX NO.14

By Feng Zhengjie

Artwork Description

Dimensions: 129.5 by 110cm.; 51 by 43 3/8 in.

Medium: oil on canvas

Feng Zhengjie (born 1968, Sichuan Province, China) is an artist based in Beijing. Originally a high-school and college art teacher in Sichuan, he came to Beijing in 1995.

His best-known work is his Portrait of China series, very large Warhol-style oil portraits, in a red/turquoise palette, of Chinese fashion model faces with vacant diverging eyes (his signature style). Critics view his work as a critique of contemporary consumer society. His early paintings were inspired by 1930s Shanghai posters. His more recent work is based on the red and green of traditional Chinese New Year art, the colours made "more acid, a representation of the flashy, commercial nature of modern China".

Zhengjie has exhibited internationally in many shows including Dialogue With Asia at Vika Gallery in Oslo, the 2002 Korea Contemporary Art Festival in Seoul, China Femmes de Chine at Veronique Maxe Gallery in Paris, Primary Colors at the Singapore Art Museum in Singapore and New Perspectives in Chinese Painting at Marella Gallery in Milan.

He is represented by Goedhuis Contemporary in London, New York and Beijing, and by Willem Kerseboom Gallery in Amsterdam.

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/feng_zhengjie.htm