Peng Jian

Peng Jian, born in 1982, Yueyang, China. He lives and works in Hangzhou.

 

Peng Jian deliberately merges Western and Chinese painting traditions, approaching the Song Dynasty ruled-line architectural painting style with a contemporary aesthetic. He is part of the new ink art movement in China, where his delicate and subtle works combine traditional techniques inspired by old masters and a mise-en-abyme of historic painterly reference. He has looked to urban evolutions in Chinese cities, full of disillusion, which he paints in distinctive grey-hued strokes in bold compositional rhythms. Books are his other main subject matter, presented in a colorful, joyous light; they are densely stacked up and adorned with mementos of childhood and daily life.

 

His works portray both an objective, imbalanced world and the interior, subjective one of a scholar’s world, hinting at the artist’s own intimate quest around his inner psyche and daily routines, harmonious and meditative.

 

Peng Jian’s work has been exhibited at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing, the Shanghai Art Museum, the Zhejiang Art Museum in Hangzhou, the Sydney City Hall.