15/12/2011
Zhou Zixi
ShanghART, Beijing
Late Spring and Early Summer. The show features more than 30 new oil paintings created by Zixi in last two years.
ShanghART Beijing is so pleased to present the solo exhibition "Late Spring and Early
Summer" on December 16, 2011. It shows more than 30 new oil paintings created by
Zhou Zixi in last two years.
The opening date of "Late Spring and Early Summer" was original planned in June,
but now it is postponed to December for some reasons. Thus, the seasonal exhibition
title became a chilly memory in distant, which implies some inappropriate complex and
obscure sadness.
As an artist who always pays attention to reality and history of China, The new works
of Zhou Zixi assume a totally new aspect. "Late Spring and Early Summer" forms like a
set of traces, memories, introspections, observations and complex emotional collage of
fragments. It interweaves personal history, contemporary history and reality itself. The
seemingly fragmentized frames supplement, correspond, multiply, and impact with each
other frames. They appear to be broken pages of the story, which implies subtle clues
and shows inherent richness and imagination.
It seems meaningful for such amount of landscape paintings. Those deserted views
looks like forgotten corners in city outskirts strewn with abandoned buildings. But
paintings with figures and scenery reveal a surreal and incredible narration. Time
passes through the old broken doors, corridors, gas meters and others, but it still
remains a breath of reality. Via the realism paintings, those personal stamped paintings
surpass the simple nostalgia and narrow personal lament.
The portrait of current has taken a zooming angle of lens to highlight a strong sense of powerlessness. The image
of the artist often appears in paintings, which seems a role as a witness and observer,
it suggests the time passing and the transformation of affairs and feelings filling time
gaps. As a result, individual experience, past history and on-going history meet and pile one
Opening: Dec. 16th, 4pm 2011
ShanghART Gallery Beijing Space
CaoChangDi 261 Beijing
Time: 11AM – 6PM (Monday Closed)
Admission free