Hunting in Dreamland
Zhang Yexing
09 Jul - 03 Sep 2016
HUNTING IN DREAMLAND
Zhang Yexing
9 July - 3 September 2016
PLATFORM CHINA has the honor to announce artist Zhang Yexing's solo exhibition "Hunting in Dreamland" which will be presented and opened on this Saturday July 9, 2016. The show will last till September 3, 2016. "Hunting" can be taken as a meaning of "seeking", "searching", or just "hunting" itself. It represents a state of affairs as well as manifests a psychological structure. "Dreamland" is not only a world of dreams, but the reflection of our reality world. This state of "hunting" is demonstrated both in the person of Zhang Yexing and in the fact that the dreamlike reality drags and guides human 's wills and values.
Zhang Yexing' works embody the dual state of how an artist growing up in the northern part of China has long been trying to continue working in the technical system of "the realism of the former Soviet Union", and how he quickly embraced foreign cultures in the age of global economy. His latest works reflect various efforts and reactions: a self searching and examining its individual position and ideal bearing in the reality; labour pains and sudden awakenings brought about by the memory of one's growing experiences and the discrepancy between the reality and the dreams; and the fermentation and inter-reaction in the blending of the institutional culture and the foreign cultures. As a result, his works are not only stately and unaffected, but have an air of "no place to settle". With the stance of a laborer, Zhang Yexing tries to create a dreamlike reality. This dreamland also reflects the helplessness and vexation, attempts and changes, as well as reversals and tempering imposed on individual lives by the society. The dreaming is the way The artist reacts: in his constantly "chewing the cud" of life, in his searching, seeking, confirming and dialoguing with it through his creative activities.
Zhang Yexing was born in Liaoning in 1981, BA, graduated from Central Academy of Fine Arts, Painting Department in 2008; He lives and works in Beijing now. Here are some of his main solo exhibitions: "Hunting in Dreamland", Platform China, Beijing, China (2016); "TIME", Platform China, Beijing, China (2013); "Door&Lock", 01100001, Beijing, China (2011); "Theater", PYO Gallery, Beijing, China (2009); Here are some of his main group exhibitions: "24 Art-NAISSANCE", Today Art Museum, Beijing, China (2015); "Breaking the Image - Methods in the Treatment of Imagery By Contemporary Artists From China", Si Shang Art Museum, Beijing, China (2015); "Jungle II - A Thriving Morphology: Theory Of Relativity", Platform China, Beijing, China (2013); "Re-Painting", Platform China, Beijing, China (2012); "China", PYO Gallery, LA, USA (2010); "NIUBI NEWBIE KIDS", SCHOENI Art Gallery, Hong Kong, China (2008).
Zhang Yexing
9 July - 3 September 2016
PLATFORM CHINA has the honor to announce artist Zhang Yexing's solo exhibition "Hunting in Dreamland" which will be presented and opened on this Saturday July 9, 2016. The show will last till September 3, 2016. "Hunting" can be taken as a meaning of "seeking", "searching", or just "hunting" itself. It represents a state of affairs as well as manifests a psychological structure. "Dreamland" is not only a world of dreams, but the reflection of our reality world. This state of "hunting" is demonstrated both in the person of Zhang Yexing and in the fact that the dreamlike reality drags and guides human 's wills and values.
Zhang Yexing' works embody the dual state of how an artist growing up in the northern part of China has long been trying to continue working in the technical system of "the realism of the former Soviet Union", and how he quickly embraced foreign cultures in the age of global economy. His latest works reflect various efforts and reactions: a self searching and examining its individual position and ideal bearing in the reality; labour pains and sudden awakenings brought about by the memory of one's growing experiences and the discrepancy between the reality and the dreams; and the fermentation and inter-reaction in the blending of the institutional culture and the foreign cultures. As a result, his works are not only stately and unaffected, but have an air of "no place to settle". With the stance of a laborer, Zhang Yexing tries to create a dreamlike reality. This dreamland also reflects the helplessness and vexation, attempts and changes, as well as reversals and tempering imposed on individual lives by the society. The dreaming is the way The artist reacts: in his constantly "chewing the cud" of life, in his searching, seeking, confirming and dialoguing with it through his creative activities.
Zhang Yexing was born in Liaoning in 1981, BA, graduated from Central Academy of Fine Arts, Painting Department in 2008; He lives and works in Beijing now. Here are some of his main solo exhibitions: "Hunting in Dreamland", Platform China, Beijing, China (2016); "TIME", Platform China, Beijing, China (2013); "Door&Lock", 01100001, Beijing, China (2011); "Theater", PYO Gallery, Beijing, China (2009); Here are some of his main group exhibitions: "24 Art-NAISSANCE", Today Art Museum, Beijing, China (2015); "Breaking the Image - Methods in the Treatment of Imagery By Contemporary Artists From China", Si Shang Art Museum, Beijing, China (2015); "Jungle II - A Thriving Morphology: Theory Of Relativity", Platform China, Beijing, China (2013); "Re-Painting", Platform China, Beijing, China (2012); "China", PYO Gallery, LA, USA (2010); "NIUBI NEWBIE KIDS", SCHOENI Art Gallery, Hong Kong, China (2008).