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18 mars 2016

ZHAO ZHAO Solo Exhibition in Hong Kong, March 21st – April 24th, 2016

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HONG KONG - Tang Contemporary Art presents a major solo exhibition at their new Central gallery space for leading contemporary Chinese artist ZHAO ZHAO, curated by Cui Cancan. The exhibition will present new works from the artist’s series Lighter, Fragments, Untitled, and Safe, which he spent a year producing. Working in a wide variety of materials and techniques, the new works address the subject of security.

Security is an emotion, a psychological feeling so integral to social structure as an experience of trust and reliability; it is also a physical and psychological premonition of threat and risk, when an individual must discern between the power and the powerless.

These feelings are prevalent in China where the people have fallen vulnerable to their country’s particular social structure. Large-scale protests have occurred in response to various unexpected events, with the collective concern for security now evident in the individual’s daily experience.

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Zhao Zhao, Safe, 2015. White marble, Various sizes. Courtesy of Zhao Zhao

Born in 1982 in Xinjiang, China, Zhao Zhao graduated from the Xinjiang Institute of the Arts in 2003 and later attended the Beijing Film Academy. The former assistant to Ai Weiwei and now regarded a significant figure among the young Post-80s generation of contemporary Chinese artists – Zhao Zhao’s work is often associated with anti-authoritarian or non-conformist tendencies, renowned for confronting existing ideological structures and exercising the power of individual free will in his work. His provocative, multidisciplinary artistic practice has garnered him international attention in recent years with critically-acclaimed exhibitions across China, North America and Europe as an ‘artist to watch’.

Cui Cancan is an active Chinese independent curator. He was the winner of the CCAA (Chinese Contemporary Art Award) Critics’ Award, Critics’ Award in Chinese contemporary art by YISHU (Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art), the annual award by L’OFFICIEL Art and so on. He was also appointed special observer for the 13th Kassel Documenta. As a curator, Cui contributed to the success of major exhibitions including Heiqiao Night Away (2013), FUCKOFF II (2013), Unlived by What is Seen (2014), Ai Weiwei solo exhibition (2015), etc.

Tang Contemporary Art will concurrently feature two projects by Zhao Zhao in Art Basel Hong Kong – unveiling a new video work Taklamakan Project in the fair’s FILM section as well as showcasing an installation in the booth.

ZHAO ZHAO, Solo Exhibition. Curated by Cui Cancan. March 21st – April 24th, 2016

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Zhao Zhao, Fragments, 2016. Courtesy of Zhao Zhao

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