ARTSY
By Frances Arnold
In 2013,
Zeng Fanzhi dwarfed previous achievements when his
Leonardo da Vinci-inspired
The Last Supper (2001) went under the hammer for $23.3 million at Sotheby’s in the same city.Zeng Fanzhi is one of China’s best-known artists both at home and abroad, and he has recently received a wave of commercial success. Now, he is the focus of an ongoing retrospective at Beijing’s
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), “
Zeng Fanzhi: Parcours,” which spans some 60 works from almost 30 years of the artist’s prolific career and demonstrates his remarkable dexterity. [
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Zeng Fanzhi, Hospital Triptych No. 1, 1991. Image courtesy of Ullens Center for Contemporary Art. |
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Zeng Fanzhi, Lucien Freud, 2011. Image courtesy of Ullens Center for Contemporary Art. |
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Zeng Fanzhi, Parcours, 1990. Image courtesy of Ullens Center for Contemporary Art. |
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Zeng Fanzhi
Blue, 2015
"Zeng Fanzhi: Parcours" at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing |