 "Wet field", 1996, 74 x 111 cm. © Mai Cheng/BONO |
Mai Cheng Zheng has lived and worked periodically
in China, Norway and France. When it comes to adjusting to new countries,
an artist will not meet the same problems as other occupational groups.
Just as water will not lose its characteristics when it flows across borders,
pictorial art can be understood as well in one country as in another. If
the painting is not provincial or limited, it can communicate across all
barriers of language. The impressions and perceptions that arise out of
genuine art, are universal and international.
The same can be said of Mai Cheng Zheng herself: She is a Norwegian citizen, but grew up in China; she is educated both at the academy of arts in Beijing and in Oslo, but she has lived and worked in Paris. On top of more than 20 exhibitions in Norway, Mai Cheng Zheng has previously had exhibitions in the Philippines and in China (the National Gallery in Beijing), in Belgium (Brussels), France (Paris), Germany (Hamburg) and on Iceland (Reykjavik). It is not inappropriate that her name - "Zheng" - means "long journey" in Chinese.
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Mai Cheng Zheng's
biography
Roy Williamson on Cheng's exhibition in Paris in 1995 Cheng's exhibition in New York, 2000 Review of exhibition in New York Cheng's last exhibition in Oslo, 2001
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