Image size: 144.5 x 145.2 cm
Hong Zhu An is a renowned modern ink painter whose artistic career reached a breakthrough in its evolution after he migrated to Singapore in 1993. Before that, he spent a few years as an exile in Australia after leaving China in the late 1980s. Since the 1990s, Hong has become one of the most significant ink painters in the Singapore art scene. This painting is an experimental work for which the artist adopted the pomo (ink splashing) and pocai (colour splashing) techniques over multiple layers to cultivate a variety of texture effects. The work with the Singapore Tyler Print Institute (STPI) series suggests the artist’s new creative tendency that deemphasised calligraphic elements and focused more on experimental qualities and materiality in the ink art.
