Feng Zhengjie
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Feng Zhengjie (born 1968, Sichuan Province, China) is an artist based in Beijing.
Zhengjie has exhibited internationally in many shows including “Dialogue With Asia” at Vika Gallery in Oslo, 2002 Korea Contemporary Art Festival in Seoul, “China Femmes de Chine” at Veronique Maxe Gallery in Paris and “New Perspectives in Chinese Painting” at Marella Gallery [1] in Milan. He is represented by Goedhuis Contemporary [2] in London, New York and Beijing.He is represented by Willem Kerseboom Gallery in Amsterdam
Reminiscent of Warhol’s screen printed celebrities, Feng’s paintings reflect a vision of futuristic pop. His generic portraits of women are influenced by promotional imagery: their exotic colours exude the glamour of commodified desire. Feng appropriates these staples of western kitsch as a readymade shorthand for a duplicity of ideology. His work is often discussed as capitalist critique, his empty eyed models posing as frivolous and vacant signifiers. Neither western nor Chinese in appearance, Feng’s women are a hybrid of commercial beauty, a science fiction product of globalisation.
Painted in massive scale, Feng’s canvases replicate the billboards from which they were inspired. Without text, or accompanying products, removing all distraction, he exposes the essence of temptation, magnifying the appeal of fantasy lifestyle and its intangibility. Transposing these disposable sentiments through his highly refined painting technique, Feng glorifies the allure of advertising as epic, enduring, and empty.
