Our frequent viewers, who are familiar with Peng Ma's work from our previous exhibition, will see the artist's continuous endeavour in developing Chinese brush painting. Peng's experiments, on the one hand, aim to make up the lack of details in traditional Chinese brush paintings and on the other hand, through abstract composition, to further expand this traditional art form to the contemporary era.

This exhibition presents Peng's ten abstract paintings. "Character Strokes Series" are embedded with radicals of ancient Chinese characters, including those from prehistorical bone inscriptions. The composition bridges the vast historical gap between now and then, creating an aesthetic effect of merging different time and space into one graphic image.

"Passion Series" exemplify the powerful discharge of the artist's creative energy. Driven by the desire to release this energy, Peng produces strong expressions with flying spirits.

"Life Series" is Peng's most recent abstract work. Exploring the depth of water, ink, and rice paper, the artist searches for both grand and minute forms of life throbbing in the universe and their movements, motion, change, and transformation.

In summery, Peng's brush paintings display the multi-level marriage between the media and the artist. By implanting Western structural discipline in his Eastern imagination, he recreates an artist's inner world with multi-layers of ink, strong bush stroke, simple and sporadic dots, lines and circles. Moreover, in order to create a different visual effect distinguishable from other art media, Peng pushes the limit of paper and water constantly in his experiments to create a special emotional tone in his work.

Peng is a contemporary artist and a reformer of the tradition. In order to create a new form of contemporary Chinese brush painting, he continues to study and practise the traditional art form and at the same time, embraces Western art forms and media.