Feng Zhengjie

Feng Zhengjie (born 1968, Sichuan Province, China) is an artist based in Beijing. Originally a high-school and college art teacher in Sichuan, he came to Beijing in 1995.

His best-known work is his "Portrait of China" series, very large Warhol-style oil portraits, in a red/turquoise palette, of Chinese fashion model faces with vacant diverging eyes (his signature style). Critics view his work as a critique of contemporary consumer society [ [http://www.redmansion.co.uk/artists/fengzhengjie.htm Profile] , The Red Mansion Foundation] His early paintings were inspired by 1930s Shanghai posters. His more recent work is based on the red and green of traditional Chinese New Year art, the colours made "more acid, a representation of the flashy, commercial nature of modern China". [ [http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/arts_entertainment/art/the+fine+art+of+becoming+rich/509722 The fine art of becoming rich] , Lindsey Hilsum, Channel 4 News, 11 May 2007 (orig. in "New Statesman")]

Zhengjie has exhibited internationally in many shows including "Dialogue With Asia" at Vika Gallery in Oslo, the 2002 Korea Contemporary Art Festival in Seoul, "China Femmes de Chine" at Veronique Maxe Gallery in Paris, "Primary Colors" at the Singapore Art Museum in Singapore and "New Perspectives in Chinese Painting" at Marella Gallery in Milan.

He is represented by Goedhuis Contemporary in London, New York and Beijing, and by Willem Kerseboom Gallery in Amsterdam

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* [http://www.88-mocca.org/index.php?var=artistdetail&artistid=49&artistname=Feng%20Zhengjie Feng Zhengjie at 88-Mocca: The Museum of Chinese contemporary art on the web]
* [http://www.goedhuiscontemporary.com/artists/feng_zhengjie/feng_zhengjie.htm Feng Zhengjie – Geodhuis Contemporary]
* [http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/feng_zhengjie.htm Feng Zhengjie – Painting – Saatchi Gallery]
* [http://www.marellart.com/it/catalogue/scheda.asp?id=189 Feng Zhengjie at Marella Gallery]
* [http://www.kerseboom.com/feng%20zhengjie.html Feng Zhengjie at Willem Kerseboom Gallery]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/07/arts/design/07coll.html?_r=2&scp=3&sq=acquavella&st=nyt&oref=slogin&oref=slogin Controversy between Chinese artists,collectors,curators and auction house]
* [http://www.benrimon.com/ Feng Zhangjie at David Benrimon Fine Art]