Feng Zhengjie

signed in Chinese and Pinyin and dated 2008

Private Collection, USA

This work is generally in good condition. There are minor accretion at the top corners. Please note that it was not examined under ultraviolet light.
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Feng Zhengjie's paintings are provocative and attractive, unreal in their coolness, but at the same time alive [with] the heat and the eroticism that they emanate. It's a strange mix, suspended in between, but with an incredible capacity to move an audience. A few strokes on an enormous canvas, large faces that can't see and seem lost in their thoughts and in a society that steals the perception of what really happens. A unique painting style that distinguishes and makes this artist recognizable, and that lets us believe that, probably, perfection lies in simplicity.

Excerpt from Eleonora Battiston, Under the Skin Beyond the Eyes, Feng Zhengjie, p. 12