Shadow —— exhibition of Zhang Feng’s sculptural art
Artist(s): ZHANG Feng
Date: 17 Nov - 30 Nov 2012
Planned by Mr. Zhang Yingchao, this exhibition displays the new sculptures of the artist in recent years, and integrates records of the artist’s life and creation to take a close look at the course of Zhang Feng’s art and creation from many perspectives.
Zhang Feng is a sculpture artist with international perspective. The learning experience at Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts and New York Academy of Art enables Zhang Feng to find the way Chinese people observe through the Western language system. In the visual illusion of two-dimensional and three-dimensional space, his sculpture transforms “shadow” into part of the sculpture to break the mutual relationship between the sculpture subject itself and shadow, expanding the special dimension of the sculpture. In addition, Zhang Feng’s artistic language integrates traditional Chinese artistic thinking, and contains special dialectical thinking about “meaning” and “form” in Chinese art. Curator Zhang Yingchao comments: “Zhang Feng’s sculpture creates something from nothing, or vice versa, pursues the space between virtuality and reality with “using brush stiff” as the technique and “vivid artistic conception” as ideal, which is the practice of Chinese paintings.”