Irrigate Autumn Tree

作品賞析

ZHENG Chong-Xiao’s works focus on themes of humanity, machines, and the environment. The classical landscape paintings of ancient literati are employed to investigate the mutual relationship between the development of civilization and the environment. Irrigate autumn tree is based upon the Southern Song Dynasty ink painting Letting the Buffalo Graze under the Autumn Tree and recreated the work with a modern landscape in a technologically advanced setting. Pouting boys are shoveling the soil, irrigating the land, and taking care of the giant tree in the middle of the painting in an attempt to remind us of the importance of trees and the environment. ZHENG Chong-Xiao uses this visual transformation and interesting perspective to imagine the various possibilities of balanced technological and ecological progress.