Image size: 167.0 x 131.5 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 work was created during the artist’s second residence programme at the Singapore Tyler Print Institute (STPI) in 2022. Moving away from the imagery of calligraphic scripts with his brushwork, the works produced at STPI are based on the surface of thick paper pulp with ink and cel vinyl paints. The artist liberated himself from a deliberate working manner and adopted dripping and imprinting techniques to bring spontaneity and randomness to dominate the creative process and his imagination.
