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Zeng Fanzhi
Near and Far/Now and Then

Through September 30, 2024
Scuola Grande della Misericordia, Venice
www.lacma.org

Near and Far/Now and Then, organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on the occasion of the 60th Biennale di Venezia, features new work by Zeng Fanzhi. The installation, designed by architect Tadao Ando, premieres two recent bodies of work by the artist—new abstract paintings and the debut of works on handmade paper rendered in ink, graphite, chalk, and gold dust, among other mineral pigments—and aims to shed light on Zeng’s ambitious practice of redefining the abstract through exercises in figurative representation, and vice versa.

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Chinese Art in Transformation

Opened September 25, 2020
Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing
www.msam.cn

Duration: Chinese Art in Transformation attempts to show how every moment that stretches is an absorption of the past, and the endless possibilities of the future are based on the past and the present. The exhibition presents painting, sculpture, installation, video, animation, and more from the 1970s to the present. Work by Hao Liang, Jia Aili, and Zeng Fanzhi is included.

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Zeng Fanzhi
Old and New (Paintings 1988–2023)

September 27, 2023–March 8, 2024
Museum of Art Pudong, Shanghai
www.museumofartpd.org.cn

Zeng Fanzhi: Old and New (Paintings 1988–2023) includes more than sixty paintings from the last thirty-five years, grouped in four interrelated yet distinct sections: “The Early Years,” “Different Paths,” “Painting as Contemplation,” and “Monumentals.” It also features a painting Zeng made on-site at the Museum of Art Pudong, as well as video and sound experiments inspired by the experience of viewing the exhibition, which were carried out by a friend of the artist’s, celebrated film director Er Cheng, and Cheng’s team.

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Zeng Fanzhi | Van Gogh

October 20, 2017–March 5, 2018
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
www.vangoghmuseum.nl

This show marks the first time the Van Gogh Museum has invited a contemporary Asian artist to exhibit at the institution. Zeng Fanzhi, who has been inspired by the artist, presents new never-before-exhibited paintings that refer to works by Van Gogh in the museum’s collection, creating a dialogue between modern and contemporary art. The show was extended to accommodate the addition of a new painting.