One of the most talked-about exhibitions during the 2024 La Biennale di Venezia by renowned artist Zeng Fanzhi and installed by preeminent architect Tadeo Ando is captured in this sumptuous volume. Presenting the latest breakthroughs in Zeng Fanzhi’s work and shedding light on Zeng’s ambitious practice of redefining the abstract this book features two recent bodies of work—oil paintings and works on handmade paper. Emerging from the artist’s decades of research in color theory Zeng’s new oil paintings draw on and challenge Impressionist and Pointillist practices with layers of brushwork creating figurative elements that are readily recognizable from afar but dissolved when viewed up close. Zeng’s works on handmade paper rendered in ink graphite chalk gold dust and other mineral pigments ambitiously combine Christian Buddhist and literati iconography pointing to a new direction in his practice. In a world inundated with machine-rendered images Zeng’s boundary-pushing experiments in painting inspire viewers to experience the beauty and time-honored art and craft of painting. More than a collection of art this volume expresses the interest of Zeng and Ando with scholars Michael Govan and Stephen Little to draw a parallel to our human journey of curiosity understanding and enlightenment.