Provenance
Private Collection, Europe
This painting is to be sold with a certificate of authenticity
signed by the artist.

PENG KANG LUNG
CONTEMPORARY CHINESE INKS

Pang Kang Lung is among the artists at the forefront of the trend in developing the different facets and potential of Chinese ink painting. The aesthetics of the mountainous scape of Hualien have provided the artists with many inspirations and anchors the compositional framework in Floral Rocky Scape, where the skeleton of the serene mountain scene lightly emerges and disappears against the boundless sky, further imbued with traces of what appears to be widow trees along the foot of the mountain. In another one of the artist’s work Forgotten Garden, it reflects an incorporation of the stylistic approach and pedigree from the respected Chinese ink tradition as the flowers, plants and various vegetation in red and yellow washes melodiously compliment each another in the compositional arrangement. It entices the viewer to appreciate and ponder upon the naturalistic ecological vision of growth and decay, whereby the contrasting vibrant red blossoming buds in its various stages of growth is juxtaposed against the decaying leafy sprigs amidst pieced rockworks in the foreground. This compositional arrangement offers the narrative quality of the seasonal cycle in its entirety. In essence, it is reminiscent of Albrecht Durer’s The Great piece of Turf dated to 1503, as the old master reflects pictorially what we can physically observe, encounter and perceived from an instant in the natural world. In stark contrast, Pang’s creation constitutes a full representation of the eternal seasonal cycle. He invites the viewers into the world of actual vegetation with an even more powerful ecological vision that spans across the cycle of budding, flowering and fruiting and last but not least the final phrase of decay, as the leaves crumble and the pieced rockworks appear to render in the form of decayed trees. Through these sentiments Pang derives a further question from his work for the viewer to evaluate upon, the artist entices one to ponder how observing these flowers and autumn foliage as frozen entities taken out from the seasonal flow of nature affect and impact one’s view on our perceivable nature. In particular, Pang’s work is imbued with the subject matter that exhibits a spiritual connection with Mother Nature, a pertinent aspect of life one often overlooked.