“A Tree Is A Tree” catalog book launch and lecture!

中文发布: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/ocSq-7kyweactA_o-iFOVQ

Upon the publication of the catalogue for my exhibition “A Tree Is A Tree” at 500 Capp street, Silicon Valley Asian Art Center, 1Plus Books together with Valleyrain International are co-organizing a book launch event where I’ll be signing the catalogues hot off the press! In addition, I’ll be giving a talk on the topic of “Buddhism, meditation and contemporary art”. There will also be an interview with me about my creative process. Viewer participation is encouraged. If you are around, please consider joining us!

When: 2:30-4:30pm, April 29.
Where: Silicon Valley Asia Art Center. 3777 Stevens Creek Blvd, Santa Clara, CA 95051 (4th Floor, Central Computer Building)

The catalog has the same title as the exhibition, A Tree Is A Tree. In addition to the high-resolution images of the 8 installation works, there are two essays in the book respectively by Lian Ladia, the curator of the exhibition, and Max Blue, the art critic of San Francisco Examiner. There is also an in-depth conversation between myself and Hou Hanru, an internationally renowned curator and critic.

As Max Blue puts it in his essay,

 ”One doesn’t so much look at Michael Zheng’s work as question it. The site-specific pieces in his exhibition “A Tree is a Tree” at the David Ireland House function like a series of Zen kōans, unanswerable riddles in the guise of deceptively simple phrases, intended to coax Buddhist disciples out of their entrenched modes of perception. Zheng’s spare and poetic installations similarly act as catalysts for philosophical queries at the intersection of art theory and spirituality, emphasizing the dynamic nature of perceived experience. ”