Zhang Huan
20 Sep - 26 Oct 2013
ZHANG HUAN
Poppy Fields
20 September - 26 October 2013
For his first exhibition at Pace since winter 2010, Zhang Huan premiers new oil paintings based on Buddhist masks and iconography inspired by extensive travel, in Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan and India. Densely layered, these all over paintings reference the history of China from ancient Buddhist dance masks to the hallucinatory imagery of opium smokers and the cultural revolution.
Zhang Huan (b. 1965, China) is one of the most vital, influential and provocative contemporary artists working today. The layers of ideas the artist explored in his early performance art, conceived of as existential explorations and social commentaries, have carried through to the more traditional studio practice he embraced upon moving to Shanghai in 2005, after living and working for eight years in New York City.
Poppy Fields
20 September - 26 October 2013
For his first exhibition at Pace since winter 2010, Zhang Huan premiers new oil paintings based on Buddhist masks and iconography inspired by extensive travel, in Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan and India. Densely layered, these all over paintings reference the history of China from ancient Buddhist dance masks to the hallucinatory imagery of opium smokers and the cultural revolution.
Zhang Huan (b. 1965, China) is one of the most vital, influential and provocative contemporary artists working today. The layers of ideas the artist explored in his early performance art, conceived of as existential explorations and social commentaries, have carried through to the more traditional studio practice he embraced upon moving to Shanghai in 2005, after living and working for eight years in New York City.