Haozhong Zheng solo show: TAKI

May 26, 2019 - Jun 29, 2019 Solo Exhibition

Opening:	May 26, 2019 03:00 Sunday
Artists:	Zheng Haozhong
Address:	BANK

TAKI is an important figure in the artist’s simple social life structure. However, her somewhat unique identity, in a way, blurs her social property.

TAKI, Zheng Haozhong’s second solo at BANK, follows, Lee Cha in2016. Lee Cha, (the artist’s penname) works as a novelist and painter, whereby “Qiu Chen” and “the wanderer” were subjects of his long-term field research and observations. Here the artist studies two people who were in a particular state as socially marginalized individuals. The observation upon them presents a chance to investigate the edges of social consciousness. On one hand, they don’t want to become the captive of standard social values; but on the other, it’s impossible for them to completely detach their bodies as well as their life from human society. As a result, they constantly endeavor to reach a subtle yet fragile balance within the edge of society. Apparently, the appeal for freedom could be sensed from within. While the artist depicts his subjects, there are two other forces emerging from within the image –society and the artist as observer.

TAKI is a partner in Zheng Haozhong’s life. On the surface, it seems that she takes the role as a visible medium to present the world Zheng sees. But in fact, as the life of TAKI and that of the artist are overlapped, the objects of observation in the artist’s images – the presence of “man” striving to become independent – is partially erased. Like Camus’ The Stranger, he resorts to a similar approach of “zero writing”, introducing seemingly irrelevant and illogical events into the image, forming a kind of neutral writing with blankness. What Zheng Haozhong delineates is societal blankness, accentuating the missing half of a human figure while enhancing the proportion of the artist’s own projection. He often completes multiple pieces of painting works simultaneously in an unpredictable manner, imbuing his work with a sense of fluctuation or of fluid time, resulting in the constant movement of human figures in his work. Such observations with massive space for blankness have been taken as a means for Zheng Haozhong to reach a kind of balance with society. How to represent the balance beyond rules? These images – the absent men – point directly beyond the negative form of society as well as the artist; in other words, the vacuum caused by the absence. It is thanks to such a vacuum that pure truth finds a way to be exposed.

INSTALLATION VIEWS

ARTWORKS

Indoor? Outdoor? Fruit? | Zheng Haozhong

Painting | oil on canvas | 30 × 40 cm | 2019
Taki 1 | Zheng Haozhong

Painting | Oil, spray paint, acrylic, burnt marks on canvas | 100 × 120 cm | 2017 - 2018
Taki 5 | Zheng Haozhong

Painting | oil, spray paint, pastel on canvas | 70 × 90 cm | 2019
Taki 6 | Zheng Haozhong

Painting | 布面油画、喷漆 | 70 × 90 cm | 2019
Taki 7 | Zheng Haozhong

Painting | 布面油画、喷漆、油画棒 | 70 × 90 cm | 2019
Taki 9 | Zheng Haozhong

Painting | 布面油画、喷漆 | 70 × 90 cm | 2019
Indoor? Outdoor? Fruit? | Zheng Haozhong

Painting | oil on canvas | 100 × 120 cm | 2019
Indoor? Outdoor? Fruit? | Zheng Haozhong

Painting | oil on canvas | 100 × 120 cm | 2019
Windows | Zheng Haozhong

Painting | Oil, acrylic and spray paint on Canvas | 70 × 80 cm | 2017
Self-portrait | Zheng Haozhong

Painting | Mixed media, oil, spray paint, color pen, burnt marks on canvas | 180 × 250 cm | 2019
untitled | Zheng Haozhong

Installation | Dimensions variable | 2018
untitled | Zheng Haozhong

Painting, Other | Oil, pastels, foaming gel on canvas | 40 × 50 cm | 2018
13854HH | Zheng Haozhong

Painting | oil on canvas | 70 × 90 cm | 2017
Taki 12 | Zheng Haozhong

Painting | Oil and spray paint on canvas | 70 × 80 cm | 2018
Self-portrait | Zheng Haozhong

Painting | oil on canvas | 300 × 200 cm | 2017
Dance | Zheng Haozhong

Painting | oil on canvas | 300 × 200 cm | 2017
Study about the Christ Child | Zheng Haozhong

Painting | Oil and spray paint on canvas | 300 × 200 cm | 2017
13854O | Zheng Haozhong

Painting | oil on canvas | 100 × 120 cm | 2016
13854E | Zheng Haozhong

Painting | Oil and spray paint on canvas | 200 × 150 cm | 2016
13854D | Zheng Haozhong

Painting | Oil and spray paint on canvas | 200 × 150 cm | 2016
13854C | Zheng Haozhong

Painting | Oil and spray paint on canvas | 200 × 150 cm | 2016
13854B | Zheng Haozhong

Painting | Oil, spray paint and watercolour on canvas | 200 × 150 cm | 2016
13854A | Zheng Haozhong

Painting | Spray paint | 200 × 150 cm | 2016
Tibet | Zheng Haozhong

Painting | Oil pastels on paper | 13.5 × 19.5 cm | 2018
Tibet | Zheng Haozhong

Painting | Oil pastels on paper | 13.5 × 19.5 cm | 2018
Tibet | Zheng Haozhong

Painting | Oil pastels on paper | 13.5 × 19.5 cm | 2018
Tibet | Zheng Haozhong

Painting | Oil pastels on paper | 13.5 × 19.5 cm | 2018
Tibet | Zheng Haozhong

Painting | Oil pastels on paper | 13.5 × 19.5 cm | 2018
Tibet | Zheng Haozhong

Painting | Acrylic on Canvas pad | 29.7 × 42 cm | 2018
Tibet | Zheng Haozhong

Painting | Oil pastels on paper | 13.5 × 19.5 cm | 2018
Tibet | Zheng Haozhong

Painting | Acrylic on Canvas pad | 29.7 × 42 cm | 2018
Tibet | Zheng Haozhong

Painting | Acrylic on Canvas pad | 29.7 × 42 cm | 2018
Tibet | Zheng Haozhong

Painting | Acrylic on Canvas pad | 29.7 × 42 cm | 2018
Tibet | Zheng Haozhong

Painting | Acrylic on Canvas pad | 29.7 × 42 cm | 2018
Tibet | Zheng Haozhong

Painting | Acrylic on Canvas pad | 29.7 × 42 cm | 2018
FLORIDA • USA | Zheng Haozhong

Ink Painting | Watercolor on paper | 36 × 48 cm | 2019
FLORIDA • USA | Zheng Haozhong

Ink Painting | Watercolor on paper | 36 × 48 cm | 2019
FLORIDA • USA | Zheng Haozhong

Ink Painting | watercolor on paper | 36 × 48 cm | 2019
FLORIDA • USA | Zheng Haozhong

Ink Painting | watercolor on paper | 36 × 48 cm | 2019
Windows | Zheng Haozhong

Ink Painting | Watercolor on paper | 36 × 48 cm | 2017
Windows | Zheng Haozhong

Ink Painting | Watercolor on paper | 36 × 48 cm | 2017
Windows | Zheng Haozhong

Ink Painting | Watercolor on paper | 36 × 48 cm | 2017
Windows | Zheng Haozhong

Ink Painting | Watercolor on paper | 36 × 48 cm | 2017
Windows | Zheng Haozhong

Ink Painting | Watercolor on paper | 36 × 48 cm | 2017
Windows | Zheng Haozhong

Ink Painting | Watercolor on paper | 36 × 48 cm | 2017
Taki 2 | Zheng Haozhong

Painting | Oil, spray paint on canvas | 100 × 120 cm | 2019
Indoor? Outdoor? Fruit? | Zheng Haozhong

Painting | oil on canvas | 100 × 120 cm | 2019
Indoor? Outdoor? Fruit? | Zheng Haozhong

Painting | oil on canvas | 150 × 200 cm | 2019
Taki 10 | Zheng Haozhong

Painting | oil, spray paint, burnt marks on canvas | 80 × 100 cm | 2019
Indoor? Outdoor? Fruit? | Zheng Haozhong

Painting | oil on canvas | 100 × 120 cm | 2019
Self-portrait | Zheng Haozhong

Painting | oil on canvas | 120 × 100 cm | 2017
Self-portrait | Zheng Haozhong

Painting | oil on canvas | 120 × 100 cm | 2017
Self-portrait | Zheng Haozhong

Painting | oil on canvas | 120 × 100 cm | 2017