Zhang Zhaoying: Lifelong Beauty

The exhibition presents a national preview of the artistic career of Zhang Zhaoying, an exponent of the New Generation who has been able to reinterpret the evolution of Chinese painting from the 1990s to the present day with a unique expressive skill during a period of great social, economic and cultural change.

Although influenced by the Renaissance, European modernism and the avant-garde, Zhang has avoided rigidly adhering to predefined pictorial patterns, creating an extraordinary synthesis between free technique and controlled painting, exploring the cultural transformations and new social dynamics of globalisation to ultimately question beauty and universal truth. In an exhibition of 26 paintings, the artist deconstructs and reconstructs traditional iconographies, interweaving past and present, tradition and innovation, developing a visual narrative that invites the onlooker to engage in a dialogue between cultures.

Artist: Zhang Zhaoying

Curators: Lü Peng, Li Guohua, Carlotta Scarpa