Zhuang Hong Yi China , b. 1962
"Zhuang Hong Yi’s well-known and highly collectable Flowerbeds are crafted from delicate pieces of painted rice paper, which he has bent and folded into hundreds of tiny buds, creating seductive and tactile works."
Chinese artist Zhuang Hong Yi is known for his vibrant canvases inspired by flowerbeds, each one featuring hundreds of pieces of folded and painted rice paper. These delicate sculptural buds create highly textural landscapes that pay tribute to Zhuang’s former adopted home of the Netherlands, where he has widely exhibited. His works have sold for more than $100,000 and earned solo exhibitions at the XU Gallery in China and the Groninger Museum and Stadsmuseum Zoetermeer in the Netherlands. Zhuang lives between China and Switzerland, where he continues to explore the peaceful qualities and emotional pull of nature —particularly flowers, which he has described as a universal language.
Contemporary artist, Zhuang Hong Yi is based in Switzerland but was brought up in China. It is this combination of Chinese background and European influence that marks Zhuang Hong Yi’s work. Embracing his present without losing his past, he attempts to define a sense of self that exists between the two. Zhuang enacts this personal struggle visually, vacillating between phases of controlled planning, emotional gesture and careful editing, creating works that represent beauty, sophisitication and a perfection.
Zhuang Hong Yi has exhibited in China, USA and throughout Europe including Germany, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy and The UK. He has been the subject of multiple museum exhibitions at Groninger Museum in the Netherlands, and featured at the Pinakothek der Moderne, a modern art museum situated in central Munich's Kunstareal, as well as at the Ulm museum in Germany. His works are held in numerous esteemed public and private collections worldwide.
