Zeng Fanzhi puts Van Gogh in the arm of fashion

Zeng Fanzhi is a big name in contemporary Chinese painting.

Born in 1964 in Wuhan, a city now famous around the world, he won with his

, sold for $ 7.5 million in Hong Kong, at the inauguration of Christie's in Hong Kong in 2008.

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For Louis Vuitton's Artycapucines bag collection, he reinterpreted one of his works, a portrait of Vincent Van Gogh entangled in lianas.

Meeting with a painter nourished by the great currents of art, from east to west.

LE FIGARO.

- Why choose a portrait of Van Gogh for this project?

Zeng FANZHI.

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I first created the painting in 2017 when I participated in a special project at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.

It is a continuation of one of my most important series called

.

I then built an avatar of Vincent Van Gogh in the background, then I dissolved it into lines.

The whole process is part of my visual observations, in my daily practice.

Is it a sacrilege

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