Saul Zanolari
dal 29/2/2008 al 30/3/2008
Segnalato da
29/2/2008
Saul Zanolari
F2 Gallery, Beijing
The exhibition presents 30 of the artist's works, including a selection of the Twilight of the Goddess series, showcasing celebrities such as Madonna and Sophia Loren. In addition, Zanolari exhibits his series Dolls, inspired by classic fairy-tale characters, reinterpreted in a contemporary way.
F2 Gallery is delighted to present a solo show Post-human by Swiss
artist Saul Zanolari. will open at 3pm on Saturday March 1st running
through March 31 st , 2008.
In 1992 Jeffrey Deitch invented the term "Post-human" to define an
artistic current which now numbers, among others, Matthew Barney and
Jeff Koons. Post-human is the world where we now live, a world of
transformation, manipulation and contrivance which is a consequence of
scientific and technological advancement, especially in the field of
genetics: we are no longer bound to our original appearance, as we now
have the opportunity to rebuild and totally change ourselves, passing
from a natural human evolution to an artificial one.
The original art works of the young Swiss artist Saul Zanolari, who has
absorbed the characteristics of the Post-human current to perfection,
will be presented in his first solo exhibition in China at F2 Gallery
in Beijing from March 1st to 31st, 2008.
Saul Zanolari's technique, which cannot be placed in a common artistic
language, takes the observer by surprise, since his works are neither
photographs, paintings or digital designs, but an original combination
of them all. He doesn't confine himself to the realism of a picture or
the stillness of a painting, but strays from the classical techniques
into a personal artistic code. Starting from a simple figurative
picture, Zanolari digitally transforms the photo into a whole new
portrait in which the protagonist's original identity is undermined by
the one of his antagonist, a sort of avatar, who steals natural and
human details in order to transform, exasperate or destroy them in a
surreal balance between inner identity and exterior body.
The Beijing exhibition at F2 Gallery will present about 30 of Saul
Zanolari¡¯s works, including a selection of the Twilight of the Goddess
series, showcasing celebrities such as Madonna and Sophia Loren. In
addition, Zanolari will exhibit his 2006 series Dolls, a collection
inspired by classic fairy-tale characters, reinterpreted in a
contemporary way. With his Post-human Dolls the artist looks for new
ways to report our childhood stories, showing a Little Red Riding Hood
with wooden legs, a Princess and the pea who cries silently, and an
Alice in Wonderland dressed up as a fetish waitress. Exclusively for
this exhibition, Zanolari has also created three dimensional sculptures
of a selection of 6 Dolls.
To complete the event two huge linked compositions will also be
presented, symbols of the artist's Chinese experience. Four big eyes,
the artist's own in one of the works and a pair of almond-shaped ones
in the other, investigate and question a Chinese reality which is still
at the centre of intense social, political and environmental debates.
These two original works close an exhibition that puts together, for
the first time, the greatest part of Zanolari's artistic flair,
featuring a young talented artist whose success is his own personal and
bizarre artistic language.
Saul Zanolari was born in Mendrisio, Switzerland, in 1977. He has a
degree in Philosophy. His work has gained considerable attention in
Rome, Milan, Paris, London, New York and Miami.
For further information, please contact Nana at:
+86 10 64328831 or £«86 13488709596
F2 Gallery
319 Caochangdi, East Dashanzi Road, Chao Yang District - Beijing C China
free admission