Peng Kanglong: Beguiling the Eye
Exhibition Dates: June 27 - July 6, 2026
Venue: Rong Bao Zhai, Guangzhou
Rong Bao Zhai and INKstudio will jointly present Beguiling the Eye, a solo exhibition by Peng Kanglong, a leading contemporary ink artist. The exhibition will be held at Rong Bao Zhai, Guangzhou, from June 27 to July 6, 2026.
Extending the intellectual inquiry of Peng's major institutional solo exhibition Peng Kanglong: Beguiling the Eye, previously held at the Guangdong Museum of Art (Baietan) , this presentation also incorporates selected works from (In/Ex)haling the Vast Wilderness: Peng Kanglong's Journey of Ink Exploration at the School of Chinese Painting, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, offering a layered view of the artist's recent ink practice.
The exhibition brings together significant works from different phases of Peng Kanglong's practice, spanning the years from 2005 to 2025. Encompassing long scrolls, monumental horizontal compositions, landscapes, floral subjects, and works in ink on paper and ink-and-color on paper, the presentation reflects the breadth of the artist's evolving visual language. From Roaming No.3, Cold Intentions,Voiceless Landscape, Landscape Pulses, and Wandering Beyond to Forcefully Entwining, Floriferous Wave, Scintillation, Drawing Out, and Digging In, the exhibition offers a focused yet multifaceted view of Peng's sustained exploration of ink over the past two decades.
Beguiling the Eye serves both as the title of the exhibition and as an entry point into Peng Kanglong's recent practice. In his paintings, landscape and flowers intertwine, accumulate, and generate one another. Blossoms, grasses, vines, rocks, clouds, and ravines together form a dense yet fluid world of ink. The sense of being "beguiled" arises from the immediate visual intensity of the image, and also from Peng's reconstruction of the inner order of brush and ink. For Peng, mountains reside in the mind, while flowers and rocks ultimately return to the structure of brush and ink. The image determines the brushwork; the brush and ink, in turn, grow naturally with structure, breath, and rhythm. In this sense, Beguiling the Eye points not only to the sensory allure of flourishing mountain flowers, but also to the contemporary regeneration and self-generating vitality of ink painting.
