Wan Fung Art Gallery is poundly present to you the “Fine Art Exhibition of Xing Chengai” from 24^th September to 8^th October. The exhibition will showcase the masterpieces of Xing Chengai. Xing Chengai is one of the best Chinese artist in drawing cats. We sincerely invite you to the public opening reception at 3pm, 24 Sep, 2011.

Cats are viewed by many as lazy and sluggish animal. While people are working indoor, cats find their own place to enjoy the lovable sunshine. Sometimes people might even envy a cat when city lives become so hectic and busy.

Xing Chengai loves painting cats because he loves the gentle and lovely characters of cats. He thinks cats are cute as children and as loyal and reliable as the old servant. They will never leave their owner, but accompany and dependent on them all the time. Most of the cats in Xing’s paintings are brought up by Xing himself, his affections and care on his cats are delivered through the paintings. After years of continuous studies and explorations, not only he mastered the skills of traditional Chinese meticulous painting, he also established his unique set of techniques and style.

Wan Fung Art Gallery cordially invites you to the opening reception for Fine Art Exhibition of Xing Chengai at 3pm, Saturday, 24 September, 2011

Exhibition Period  :  24.09.2011 – 08.10.2011

Exhibition Venue  :  Wan Fung Art Gallery

                                        G/F, Cityplaza III, Taikoo Shing, Island East, Hong Kong (MTR Taikoo Exit E1)

Opening Hours      :  Monday – Saturday  10:00 – 19:00

                                        Sunday & Public Holidays 13:00 – 18:00

Enquiry                     :  (852) 2736 9623

Website                    :  www.wanfung.com.cn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Xing Chengai, the word fu yuan.

Born in 1960, Cangzhou City, Hebei Province.

He was previously a cadre of Hebei Cangzhou City Literary Federation, and currently a member of Chinese Artists Association of Hebei. He is now a full time artist under Wan Fung Art Gallery.

Xing started to paint when he was a kid. It has been laid a good foundation in art for him. After graduated from the Hebei University of Technology Academy of Fine Arts, he studied at the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts and the Central Academy of Arts education.

Xing is good at traditional Chinese realistic animal and flower painting. He absorbed traditional Chinese painting’s brush, ink, color oriental techniques, and integration into the Western idea of three-dimensional shape, showing in his animal painting in particularly. He pen-shaped, to form vivid. It creates his own unique methods of expression, which extends and enriches the realisticity and techniques of Chinese animal painting. Xing uses the traditional brush strokes with his particular meticulous and modern way to paint animals.

Over the past decade, Xing focus on his research of Cats meticulous technique. He put his own favorite, the family cat into art. He uses difficult skills to represent all kinds of family cats’ movement, by his carefully observations of cats’ life and their emotional changes. He focuses on creating a precise picture with graceful atmosphere and fine composition. He expresses his own feelings perfusion in his works with the elegant style and strong artistic appeal.

One of Xing’s works, "Autumn Melody", a small traditional Chinese realistic painting participated in a national exhibition. Another work, "Play" participated in the national hundred artists exhibition, “the 20th anniversary of the Golden”. Xing also held his solo exhibition in 2008 in Guangdong. 2011 Ten works have been published in Hong Kong "Capital " magazine. Eleven works have been selected for the Shanghai Renmei 2011 "New Century Art". He also published in "Way of Traditional Chinese Cat Painting", "the strength of Chinese contemporary painter Portfolio", "China painting appreciation works ". Moreover, His works published by the national postal cards for three consecutive years, and published “The Chinese contemporary famous artists, Xing Chengai’s Album” for celebrate the 90th anniversary of the party.

A big numbers of his works have been exhibited, displayed, awarded, published in France, Japan, Hong Kong, Macau and Mainland. Some of his works have been selected for the well-known Chinese auction exhibition. His works are beloved of the Chinese and foreign private collectors and enthusiasts of all ages.

Since September 2011, the Wan Fung Art Gallery Hong Kong, Guangdong, Shanghai, Beijing, organized Xing’s solo art exhibition and the large paintings publication, "Xing Chengai Collection 2011 ".