Zhang Hui: Exception
This online viewing room will present Zhang Hui and his painting language. Zhang Hui takes painting as a mode of investigation to undertake a performative exploration of duration and its relationship to the ideas of time and space. His works conceal eminently readable and bewitching theatricality within them, simultaneously profoundly rethinking the truth and uniqueness of known reality, striving to expand the structure behind real events and their images. The online viewing room will be launched from 29 August 18:00 to 4 September 24:00 (CST).
Open Ground or Clear Turning to Cloudy，2010，Acrylic on canvas，42x30 cm (60 panels)，30x42 cm (60 panels)
"During the practice organised by Long March Space called Ho Chi Minh Trail, there were huge amount of discussions about various problems. What was the most interesting is that if this kind of discussion happened in a daily environment that everyone’s familiar with, the circumstance probably would not happen there. I think it is stimulation which enables people to stimulate each other and a spatial circumstance which encouraged people to think occurred. After they had come back, they needed to do an exhibition for the Ho Chi Minh Trail when they were trying to understand the whole experience. Thinking back to this experience, how to describe oneself and his/her mental and physical state, plus the transition of thinking, the ambient of space are connected to the circumstance that we talked about." —— Zhang Hui
"In that situation, I saw this picture of an advertisement of an airline on a plane occasionally. A special circumstance, like a circumstance happens in the air, is a state of unconventionality and strangeness. Meanwhile, it is also similar to the mental state of myself as I have phobia for plane. Thus, under this circumstance, I usually numb myself and have illusions.
The reality gives me a process of giving myself illusions and that process is from the airline stewardess. Because of the consolation of their uniforms, identity and performance, we convince ourselves to trust her. They give the passengers a feeling that they think they are safe, but actually we lose an objective and rational judgment and shield the truth." —— Zhang Hui
"I prefer to say that each painting has its own rhetoric method, or I would rather call it visual logic.Each painting has its visual logic, thus in this way I think I’m worthy of the painting and this is my working method and artistic style." —— Zhang Hui
"After a day of making draft I got exhausted. I thought I would begin to paint the next day. However, when I got back to the studio, I found the draft consisted of blue lines beautiful, so why would I cover them? Is the blue line itself something presentable? As it was supposed to be a motivation, a draft, but can a draft become the result? I would say: the reason can become the result. Why not? I began to distort and fold the line, making it into an object in the end which is like folding a wire in order to make an object out of it, and this is also the beginning of a series of visual and logical expansion." —— Zhang Hui
"Each profession is a special state and exception to others. The plane is also a special space as well as the hospital. Actually the world is consisted of special spaces. Nurses are able to care and console, they are a relation and delivery between doctor and patient. They don’t cure but deliver which is the relation that I’m interested in." —— Zhang Hui
"For this conductor, she is ‘double-walking’ which is her walking itself and the train carrying her moving." —— Zhang Hui
"There is a relation of transition between images existing, or a kind of rhetorical and logical relationship existing in-between. Tracing back to the method, it’s actually a method of depicting. Thus, what I do is first, to review painting itself and how images can be more precise on its own visual logic and rhetoric; secondly, we need to respect to the material, thus it can more precise." —— Zhang Hui
Interview with Zhang Hui
Zhang Hui: Exception
This online viewing room will present Zhang Hui and his painting language. Zhang Hui takes painting as a mode of investigation to undertake a performative exploration of duration and its relationship to the ideas of time and space. His works conceal eminently readable and bewitching theatricality within them, simultaneously profoundly rethinking the truth and uniqueness of known reality, striving to expand the structure behind real events and their images. The online viewing room will be launched from 29 August 18:00 to 4 September 24:00 (CST).
Open Ground or Clear Turning to Cloudy，2010，Acrylic on canvas，42x30 cm (60 panels)，30x42 cm (60 panels)
"During the practice organised by Long March Space called Ho Chi Minh Trail, there were huge amount of discussions about various problems. What was the most interesting is that if this kind of discussion happened in a daily environment that everyone’s familiar with, the circumstance probably would not happen there. I think it is stimulation which enables people to stimulate each other and a spatial circumstance which encouraged people to think occurred. After they had come back, they needed to do an exhibition for the Ho Chi Minh Trail when they were trying to understand the whole experience.
Thinking back to this experience, how to describe oneself and his/her mental and physical state, plus the transition of thinking, the ambient of space are connected to the circumstance that we talked about. In that situation, I saw this picture of an advertisement of an airline on a plane occasionally. A special circumstance, like a circumstance happens in the air, is a state of unconventionality and strangeness. Meanwhile, it is also similar to the mental state of myself as I have phobia for plane. Thus, under this circumstance, I usually numb myself and have illusions." —— Zhang Hui
"The reality gives me a process of giving myself illusions and that process is from the airline stewardess. Because of the consolation of their uniforms, identity and performance, we convince ourselves to trust her. They give the passengers a feeling that they think they are safe, but actually we lose an objective and rational judgment and shield the truth." —— Zhang Hui
"I prefer to say that each painting has its own rhetoric method, or I would rather call it visual logic.Each painting has its visual logic, thus in this way I think I’m worthy of the painting and this is my working method and artistic style." —— Zhang Hui
"After a day of making draft I got exhausted. I thought I would begin to paint the next day. However, when I got back to the studio, I found the draft consisted of blue lines beautiful, so why would I cover them? Is the blue line itself something presentable? As it was supposed to be a motivation, a draft, but can a draft become the result? I would say: the reason can become the result. Why not? I began to distort and fold the line, making it into an object in the end which is like folding a wire in order to make an object out of it, and this is also the beginning of a series of visual and logical expansion." —— Zhang Hui
"Each profession is a special state and exception to others. The plane is also a special space as well as the hospital. Actually the world is consisted of special spaces. Nurses are able to care and console, they are a relation and delivery between doctor and patient. They don’t cure but deliver which is the relation that I’m interested in." —— Zhang Hui
"For this conductor, she is ‘double-walking’ which is her walking itself and the train carrying her moving." —— Zhang Hui
"There is a relation of transition between images existing, or a kind of rhetorical and logical relationship existing in-between. Tracing back to the method, it’s actually a method of depicting. Thus, what I do is first, to review painting itself and how images can be more precise on its own visual logic and rhetoric; secondly, we need to respect to the material, thus it can more precise." —— Zhang Hui
Interview with Zhang Hui
