Bronze is me, and I am bronze.
Zhu Bingren
In middle age, Zhu Bingren chose to start from scratch, picking up the ancestral bronze hammer once again. Beginning with a bronze signboard, he went on to create his first bronze door, his first bronze mural, his first bronze hall, and his first molten bronze artwork.
In this way, he not only “clad” the Leifeng Pagoda in bronze, but also contributed to the construction of over a hundred bronze buildings and projects both in China and abroad, earning the title “Father of Contemporary Chinese Bronze Architecture.” At the same time, Zhu Bingren pioneered the “mold-free controllable” molten bronze technique, with his works collected by the National Museum of China, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and the Singapore Chinese Cultural Center, among others.
He combines the talents of poetry, calligraphy, painting, seal carving, and bronze artistry in one, creating the majority of his life’s work and leading Chinese bronze culture to its pinnacle.