ZHENG CHONGBIN (b.1961) The Propositions of Alignment (D), 2014ZHENG CHONGBIN (b.1961)The Propositions of Alignment (D), 2014Ink and acrylic on xuan paper, framed. 84cm high x 83cm wide (33in high x 32 5/8in wide). 鄭重賓（1961年生）對齊的命題(D) 水墨丙烯紙本 鏡框 2014年作Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Michael Goedhuis, The Ink Art of China, London, 2015, pp.16-17. 展覽著錄：Michael Goedhuis著，《水墨中国》，伦敦，2015年，第16-17頁Zheng Chongbin was born in Shanghai in 1961 and attended the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now the China Academy of Art) in 1980, specialising in figure painting in the Chinese historical style. After graduating in 1984, he taught painting at his alma mater for four years and began to create abstract works, highlighting the interplay between black and white and the spatial aspects of ink painting as a material. His experimental ink paintings were exhibited in a solo show in 1988 at the Shanghai Museum of Art. Later, he travelled to the United States as a student and received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1991. He currently lives near San Francisco Art Institute and maintains a studio in Shanghai. Zheng has developed a unique hybrid visual language as a result of his bi-cultural background, as well as an effort to explore and deconstruct the Classical Chinese ink canons and Western pictorial abstraction conventions. His richly textured ink surface, emerging from the interplay of ink, acrylic, water, paper and light, confronts issues of form and loftier metaphysical dimensions. One of the core notions in Zheng's art is that the world is always in flux, made up of flows of matter and energy that constantly cohere and dissipate.Zheng's works have been collected by many internationally renowned institutions including the British Museum, London; the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Brooklyn Museum, New York; M+ Museum, Hong Kong and others; see Ink Worlds: Contemporary Chinese Painting from the Collection of Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang, Stanford, 2018, pp.201-202.Compare with a related painting by Zheng Chongbin, 'Linear Amplification', 2014, which was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 26 November 2018, lot 872.