Peng Kanglong: Beguiling the Eye
Dates: November 14, 2025 to March 8, 2026
Exhibition Director: Wang Shaoqiang
Curator: Deng Feng
Hall 9th and Hall 11th, 3rd floor, Guangdong Museum of Art (Baietan)
The Guangdong Museum of Art will present Peng Kanglong: Beguiling the Eye, the largest solo exhibition to date by the acclaimed contemporary ink artist Peng Kanglong (b. 1962, Hualien, Taiwan). Held at the museum's Baietan Venue, the exhibition brings together nearly 90 works spanning twenty-five years of Peng's artistic career, offering audiences an immersive visual experience that traces his integration of landscape and flower painting into a singular contemporary idiom. Organized by the Guangdong Museum of Art, with support from INKstudio, the exhibition is led by Wang Shaoqiang, the museum's director, and curated by Deng Feng, research fellow at the National Art Museum of China.
The word mi (迷), meaning "bewilder" or "fascinate," serves as the conceptual key to the exhibition. Through swirling, layered, floating, and densely woven brushwork, Peng fuses landscapes and flowers into rhythmically charged compositions that captivate the eye and stir emotion. His brushwork reflects his temperament—spontaneous, direct, and brimming with dynamic energy—unfolding intuitively across the paper. The interplay of ink, color, and coarse hemp paper generates a palpable sense of tension and immersive allure.
Scholar Lai Yu-chih has written of Peng's practice: "This spatiality and figuration—marked by contradiction, transformation, and metamorphosis—and their juxtaposition with lines of distinctly Expressionist character have further transformed the motifs and styles Peng Kanglong had previously developed into a mode of existence capable of organic mutation at any moment. This dimension of freedom may well be the loosening and release that can only be attained after two decades of persistently deconstructing conventions and fully internalizing them."
