Art Criticism from Deng

Deng has followed the work since the early Inner Desolation drawings, and is one of the few critics who has written on both Chan-Ao’s practices in parallel. The conversation here turns, repeatedly, on the question of whether oil and ink in this artist’s hands are two languages or, finally, two dialects of one.

“The ink doesn’t complete what the oil starts. They are answering different questions, in different rooms.”