Zeng Fanzhi: Near and Far/Now and Then

The exhibition sheds light on Zeng’s practice of redefining the abstract through exercises in figurative representation. The artist’s new oil paintings emerged from his decades of research in color theory, drawing on and challenging Impressionist and Pointillist practices whereby images materialize only through the placement of individual marks of color. Using different materials and opposite approaches to the viewer, the display guide viewers to discoveries prompted by tensions that are deftly deployed by the artist.