ZHAO GANG – Emperor and His…

2014.04.13 – 2014.06.13

Press Release

Self statement

Me as myself, was inspired by Milan Kundera’s novel, Life is Elsewhere, the perpetual struggle to find way home, but more becoming a remote idea, perhaps a concept that should have never been invented. A family story that my grandfather had sold all pine trees from the family graveyard became a forever mystery of home. Later the graveyard had been removed to nowhere.
My understanding of painting is more of a sketch than anything, just a trace of memory, however, not existing. An architecture is built not for human occupation, just a decoration for an idea. A landscape should never be there. A painting is an expensive image of elaboration of useless effort to provide a moment of pleasure. So many times we have tried to make a painting which can be indication of our spirit and struggle, but every time we were wrong. And too often a painting was a secret mark of men’s time of dis-satisfaction, tragedy and hatred, beyond imagination of an explainable painful psychological and body conditions, a logic failure of men’s thought of philosophy.

ARTWORKS

战士 Warrior

2014
布面油画
Oil on canvas
190 x 100 cm

皇家风景 The Imperial Landscape

2014
布面油画
Oil on canvas
190 x 100 cm

她 SHE

2014
布面油画
Oil on canvas
120 x 90 cm

下面的世界 The World Below

2014
布面油画
Oil on canvas
150 x 98 cm

功臣 Meritorious Man

2014
布面油画
Oil on canvas
112 x 150 cm

我有她的斑点 I Have Her Sparkle

2014
布面油画
Oil on canvas
120 x 150 cm

我 ME

2014
布面油画
Oil on canvas
90 x 90 cm

向下看 Look Upward

2014
布面油画
Oil on canvas
180 x 250 cm

向上看 Look Upward

2014
布面油画
Oil on canvas
150 x 150 cm

思想者 The Thinker

2014
布面油画
Oil on canvas
150 x 150 cm

红颜知己 Soulmate

2014
布面油画
Oil on canvas
150 x 150 cm

农民 Farmer

2014
布面油画
Oil on canvas
162 x 130 cm

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