Zhuang Hong Yi

One of the most prominent contemporary Chinese artists, Zhuang Hong Yi was born in 1962 in Sichuan Province and started his fine art training at the Sichuan College of Fine Arts in China, subsequently attending the Academie Minerva in the Netherlands, where he currently resides.

Hong Yi’s creative practice has eloquently married the traditional Chinese medium of rice paper and the illustrious Dutch flower landscapes. This is achieved by creating 3-dimensional paintings made of painstakingly hand-folded rice-paper flowers covered in colour-shifting layers of acrylic and oil paint. The works themselves can be viewed as both sculpture and painting, requiring the viewer to walk past them in order to appreciate the transformation of the chromatic spectrum: it is really something that needs to be seen to be believed. In addition to paint-based works, Zhuang also creates object-sculptures.