Talented Chinese Painter: Peng Wei
By admin on 2014-12-29

Talented Chinese painter Peng Wei, famous for her continuous exploration of traditional Chinese painting on silk and paper, has created a series of unique painting installations, currently on display at the Opposite House in Beijing.

Peng's newly created works feature her recent experimentation of painting in a third dimension. While Rock Garden presents a series of Chinese scholar's rocks painted on transparent panels, the work Bodies is a series of rice paper female forms adorned with refined images imbued with aesthetic sensitivity.

Peng Wei's painting installations on display in Beijing. [hudong.com]

Combining elements of traditional Chinese painting with contemporary everyday life, Peng Wei's artworks both commemorate a bygone era of scholarly tradition and represent a subtle elegance and refinement of contemporary Chinese culture.

Peng's work has been exhibited widely internationally, including Paris and New York and is held in several private collections internationally.    
 

 
 
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Peng Wei was born in 1974 in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. Since obtaining her BA in 1997 and MA in Philosophy of Aesthetics in 2000 at the Tianjin-based Nankai University she has worked as editor of the China Artists Association Art magazine

An exponent of traditional Chinese ink painting skills, landscapes, flowers and weirdly shaped rocks were the subjects of Peng's early works. She now specializes in depictions of women's robes and shoes from China's imperial times. Although remnants of a bygone era, the garments in Peng's paintings appear charged with fresh narratives and contexts, and manifest the artist's self-confessed fascination with the ‘lost and beautiful' items of the past.