Feng Xiao-Min: Feng Xiao-Min, Compositions

Feng Xiao-Min (b. 1959, Shanghai) is a French-Chinese painter who lives and works in Paris. After graduating from fine arts studies in China, he moved to France in 1988 and enrolled at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he was later invited to teach from 1997 to 2000 before giving up teaching to focus entirely on his own work. His paintings fuse Eastern aesthetics with Western techniques, evoking visions of landscape from dusk to dawn. Rather than depicting a specific subject or place, he concentrates on the visual power of blended color and the spatial configuration of the whole image. Drawing on his training in traditional Chinese calligraphy, he uses acrylic on canvas to echo the aesthetic of ink on paper, often painting on the floor to control the flow of paint and water. He was commissioned to produce work for the 2017 BRICS summit and is represented by Opera Gallery.