One of China’s leading contemporary artist, Lan Zhenghui, recently début a magnificent installation Ink Monument at Art Central Hong Kong. The project was presented by Ethan Cohen New York, at the iconic Central Harbourfront. Commissioned by Art Central’s selection committee, Lan Zhenghui’s installation Ink Monument towers close to 16.5 feet high, with a colossal four-sided column of large-scale ink paintings on rice paper.

The artist created his new master-work to express the power of sadness and an epic awareness of tragedy. After Hong Kong Art Week, Lan will next embark on a U.S. tour that includes a second residency at Mana Contemporary co-sponsored by Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, and university lectures in multiple cities.

This is the second year that the Art Central selection committee has invited Lan Zhenghui for a major installation. At 2015’s Hong Kong Art Week, Ethan Cohen curated Lan’s installation titled Re-Think, which was very well received in Hong Kong and was a highlight of the Art Central fair (the entire installation was acquired).