Thursday 2 February 2017 to Wednesday 8 February 2017
SOLO SHOW - ZHOU Zuojun
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Born in 1974, lives and works in Guangzhou, China • Studied at Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts • Painter signed with Guangdong Academy of Painting • Curator of Chen Shuren Memorial Art Museum
L’art chinois contemporain est totalement multiforme, et quiconque s’y intéresse réalise la diversité et l’importance historique et actuelle de l’art de l’empire du milieu. En effet, l’enseignement de l’académie y produit des millions de peintres, dessinateurs et sculpteurs, qui démontrent une maîtrise technique, une culture et un courage au travail rare dans de telles proportions. Parmi eux, la plupart n’émergeront pas, ils sont trop nombreux. Ainsi, pour beaucoup, l’idée est de rompre avec leurs traditions pour se lancer dans une approche subversive ou commerciale, pensant que le succès s’y trouve… ? Zuojun a, lui, délibérément choisit de construire son art en s’appuyant sur ses racines, son histoire et les sujets le plus vus de l’art chinois, un chemin rare s’il en est. Le résultat est inattendu, fruit d’un mariage entre la figuration et l’abstraction. Le format rond de beaucoup de ses chassis me fait penser au kaléidoscope, l’ambiance de ses tableaux plus réaliste au travail des maîtres flamands de la Renaissance. Finalement, avec Zuojun, tout est contemporain, et pour longtemps.
Born in 1974, lives and works in Guangzhou, China • Studied at Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts • Painter signed with Guangdong Academy of Painting • Curator of Chen Shuren Memorial Art Museum
Contemporary Chinese art is totally multifaceted, and anyone interested in it realizes the diversity and historical and current significance of Middle Kingdom art. Indeed, the teaching of the academy produces millions of painters, designers and sculptors, who demonstrate a technical mastery, a culture and a courage at work rare in such proportions. Among them, most will not emerge, there are too many of them. So, for many, the idea is to break with their traditions to embark on a subversive or commercial approach, believing that success is there ...? Zuojun himself has deliberately chosen to build his art by drawing on his roots, his history and the most seen subjects of Chinese art, a rare path if there is one. The result is unexpected, the fruit of a marriage between figuration and abstraction. The round format of many of his frames reminds me of the kaleidoscope, the atmosphere of his paintings more realistic to the work of the Flemish masters of the Renaissance. Finally, with Zuojun, everything is contemporary, and for a long time.
