PAINTER Fan Zeng, who fled China three years ago to seek artistic freedom in the West, has vowed to end all involvement in politics and concentrate on his art.
In a telephone interview from Paris yesterday, Fan said politics was ''too complicated'' for him and he had decided to leave it to the politicians.
Fan fled China in 1990 to seek ''freedom of expression and creativity'' in the West, but he returned to China in June after securing a promise from Beijing that he would not be punished.
He spent more than two months in China settling his marital problems and divorcing his wife, Bian Baohua. They agreed to settle the matter out of court, having verified their separation with the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
Fan plans to marry his longtime companion, Nan Li, in Paris next month before they both return to China.
But he does not intend to settle in China permanently. He claims Beijing has granted him freedom to travel and issued him a passport to that effect.