Born 1970 Yangjiang, Guangdong Province, China
Lives and works in Yangjiang, Guangdong Province, China
A presence in Chinese art since the 1990s, Zheng Guogu has consistently focused on the relationship between images and individual consciousness. First known for his conceptual provocations inspired by China’s exploding consumer culture, Zheng Guogu uses painting as the medium through which he reflects on his immersive study of Chinese spirituality. Drawing on the visual language of traditional Buddhist thangka painting, he seeks out colour frequencies whose vibration is closely related to the workings of human arteries and veins. His paintings are an attempt to extract the essence of what the artist describes as the ‘classic multimedia power’ of thangka, using it as a template for the colours and images manifesting from his studies of energy.