When Zhao imagines and faces intellectual work it is always fuzzy and full of disputes, as if it is a continuous smear, cover up, and tears at the intention of the people portrayed by hidden souls excited and forced out from the flesh. There is a silent stop when the viewer is in front of his works, the line of sight penetrates the surface of the facial features and faces directly into the inner self. Thus we realize that the artist is seemingly confused, calm, controlled and the construction is in a painstaking self-art order with the lines and colors intertwined.
Zhao Nengzhi’s series “Blue”, maintains the structures and elements of his earlier works, the body and expressions became the carrier of the artist’s creations such as “Big head” or the half man figures. Zhao Nengzhi always uses the exaggerated and transformation of focus to show his works to us, also emphasizing the characteristics of partial figures. The partial features of his works are just a kind of media, which arranges the massive chaos into a combination of everything. Whether it might be judged as twisted, terrifying, painful, stressful, or blind, we cannot deny that the expressions shown are the same characteristics we all share as a human being. The artists show our “true” conditions through this form of violent creation.
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Zhao Nengzhi’s creations are very progressive and full of unknown characteristics, how far can the artist dig into his potential to express his intellectual structures. Zhao places emphasis on his coincidental experiences, “I prefer to focus on the brush works and the line elements in my work, those images might seem to be created from the mistakes during the process of painting and in fact this is true, but I like the coincidental mistakes made during my painting process, it’s interesting to retain them.” The obsession of pure and unstable nature was the true form of Zhao’s inner self. Therefore, he often remains cautious and sensitive towards the “pure abstraction” forms.
About the Exhibition
Curator: Dai Zhuoqun
Exhibition Director: Sun Yongzeng
Assistant Curator: Li Yunxia, Xie Jinyuan
Public Relations: Wu Wei
Project Cooperation: Liu Chenya, Wu Ling
Organizer: White Box Museum of Art
Opening: Saturday, April 9, 2012, 3p.m.
Dates: April 9, 2012 –May 7, 2012
Museum Opening Hours: 10:00 - 18:00, Tuesday - Sunday
Venue: WHITE BOX MUSEUM OF ART, 798 Art Dist
Address: 798 Art District, No.2 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
Tel: +86-10-59784800
Fax: +86-10-59784801
Courtesy of the artist and White Box Museum of Art, for further information please visit www.798whitebox.com.
