Tang Contemporary Art is delighted to present Zheng Guogu’s solo exhibition “Images of Magnetic Resonance.”

For ‘Images of Magnetic Resonance’, the current Zheng Guogu solo exhibition at Tang Contemporary Art, Zheng Guogu explores in diverse ways the different dimensions of life: he believes that the production of human consciousness first enters through the perceptual area of the right brain, then through the analysis and process of the cerebellum, and then out of the rational area of the left brain. Notions of time and space become intertwined with a one-sided form of consciousness - according to their innate abilities, people can use this to their advantage only through their responses. This art practice intricately uses methods to connect an exploration of space, body, and the spirit.

Zheng Guogu has divided the exhibition hall into four parts: a large installation occupies the big exhibition hall ‘Spiritual Tour of a Pure Garden’, transforming expressions from common culture into rock sculptures. These are then spread around the white exhibition hall to become a ‘garden of text’ - a setting for worshippers to enjoy the vista and as a seating area. In the other smaller exhibition hall is a continuation of the artist’s series ‘Pig’s brain contrals Human’s brain’, where the whole wall will be covered by common character scripts small and large. In another area, the artist creates work following magnetic field theory “Cranial Nerve Diagram”, the artist follows the Bodhisattvas used to attain enlightenment to abstract and transform them into diagrams of cranial nerves with the belief that they can bring about a miraculous spiritual layer resonating with its magnetic field.

In the last exhibition hall, there are blank canvases for four painters facing one another. At the exhibition opening, the artist will be on the sidelines listening in for information. The information will then be processed through the electronic signals of his brain, to be conveyed to the four painters, who will proceed to capture pictures connected to the reality of the space’s magnetic field.

This newly created art attempts to open up the multi-dimensionality of space and living. It is also proceeds through different processes, thereby mapping out today’s relationship between the individual and it’s surrounding, which is related to the transformative connections related to a “fantasy, which also becomes reality”. In other words, how do we become free from restraints or to see through this era’s guise and fantasies; this particular issue has always been a crucial line of questioning within his practice.

Zheng Guogu adopts the kind of illusionary inducing strategies used by real media companies in an attempt to develop an autonomous language; a language resistant to the ‘lingua franca’ of the authorial structures, which have assimilated artistic trends up to this day.

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