Zhang Yexing：Rebirth

In this exhibition, Zhang Yexing’s usual warm tones are eliminated, and the familiar thick painting technique of stacking pigments is put aside, presenting a deep and dignified blue-green color as a whole.

Silent, stimulating, clumsy, smooth, stressed, tight, black. While the picture scene is airtight, it also creates an outlet for us to secretly ecstasy.

The hardest core of a painter’s career has always been the achievement of surpassing art in the suffering of life. This may be the deep meaning of Zhang Yexing’s “rebirth”.

Or maybe “re-starting” is the unique Zhang’s technique that we see at the edge of each picture in this exhibition: in the process of scrutinizing the picture, Zhang Yexing often uses a spatula to scrape off unsatisfactory pictures Again.

He directly scrapes and piles the paint on the edge of the frame, and repeatedly these piles of paint become the extension of the picture and are preserved.

In Zhang Yexing’s long-term creations, he is good at creating spatial landscapes of empty mirrors. This artist who grew up in the north has accepted the dual forms of social changes and globalization around him, presenting a psychedelic and overwhelmed individual state.

For this, the artist’s work may be playful at the beginning, emphasizing conflict, uninhibited and fearless; but in “Restart”, the dining table, shower curtain, street lamp, sofa, and even a flower, all daily life Staring, tearing off the mask of the real world, the truth under the mask is so silent and heavy, it is doubtful.

Born in Shenyang, Liaoning in 1981, graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2008, and now lives and works in Beijing.

major solo exhibition
ZHANG YEXING, Bernier/Eliades, Athens, Greece, 2017;
Hunting in Dreamland, Platform China, Beijing, 2016;
Hour, Platform China, Beijing, 2013;
Doors and Locks, 01100001, Beijing, 2011;

Some group exhibitions
Images Pool, Jinge Art, Beijing, 2016;
24 Art Project – “NAISSANCE”, Today Art Museum, Beijing, 2015;
Broken Atlas – How Chinese Contemporary Artists Process Images, Sishang Art Museum, Beijing, 2015;
Jungle—Diffuse Form: Theory of Relativity, Platform China, Beijing, 2013;
Painting Again, Platform China, Beijing, 2012:
China, Piao Gallery, Los Angeles, 2010; NIUBI NEWBIE KIDS, Schoeni Gallery, Hong Kong, 2008