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X-WR-CALNAME:ZENG SHANQING: The New Ink Painting in New York City at G
	oedhuis Contemporary - Eventful
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SUMMARY:ZENG SHANQING: The New Ink Painting
DESCRIPTION:  NEW YORK - Goedhuis Contemporary will host a show of rec
	ent works by Chinese ink painter Zeng Shanqing from November 20 – Dece
	mber 22 at its New York gallery. It is the third in a series of 15 sho
	ws on the New Ink Painting that Goedhuis Contemporary will stage in th
	e next two years.  In Zeng Shanqing's recent works can be seen the ult
	imate late flowering of a talent that had earmarked him in the 1950's 
	as one of the most gifted young artists of his generation in China.  Z
	eng's work constitutes a persuasive appeal to us to just look at the w
	ork and not try to extract some moral from it. He has had more reasons
	 than most to wish to promulgate a political message\, given his first
	-hand experience of Maoist political suppression. But such a purpose\,
	 if it consciously exists\, is subordinated to the creation of art—to 
	paintings that stand as expressions of his gifts as an artist\, which 
	repay careful scrutiny with new insights and new perceptions about our
	selves and the world about us\, not conduits for the transmission of a
	n “idea”.  He was born in 1932 in Beijing and thus formed part of the 
	ill-fated generation of intellectuals which was to suffer so tragicall
	y under the depredations of Maoist excesses during the Cultural Revolu
	tion.  As a very young artist however his promise was swiftly recogniz
	ed and he graduated from the elite Central Academy in Beijing in 1950.
	 Within two years he was appointed to a prestigious teaching position 
	there\, due in part to the regard in which he was held by his mentor\,
	 the famous 20th century master\, Xu Beihong (1895-1953).  These recen
	t works represent a ripening of Zeng's talent\, a final vindication of
	 the acknowledgement accorded him in the very early\, hopeful years of
	 Mao's China. He has never allowed bitterness about the lost years to 
	affect his determination to produce fine\, fresh\, original paintings 
	rooted in an early mastery of Western realism and Chinese classical te
	chnique. As his strength has returned over the last years it has now b
	ecome clear that he represents one of the most convincing examples of 
	a Chinese artist who has not only created a flawless fusion between Ea
	st and West\, but comes to the task with such a deep grounding in the 
	Chinese and Western Classics allied to an intuitive understanding of m
	odern aesthetics.  Zeng Shanqing's work can be found in numerous colle
	ctions worldwide including the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford University\,
	 the British Museum\, the Beijing Artists Association\, and The Asian 
	Art Museum in San Francisco.  For further inquiries please contact Mic
	hael Goedhuis or Rebecca Durnin at (212) 535-6954. \n
LOCATION:Goedhuis Contemporary @ 42 East 76th Street, New York, New Yo
	rk 10021 United States
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