Tuesday, May 22, 2007

About Zhang Xiaogang - A Chinese Artist

Zhang XiaogangZhang Xiaogang was born on 1958 in Yang Born in Kunming, Yunnan province. Zhang Xiaogang’s paintings engage with the notion of identity within the Chinese culture of collectivism. Basing his work around the concept of ‘family’ –immediate, extended, and societal – Zhang’s portraits depict an endless genealogy of imagined forebears and progenitors, each unnervingly similar and distinguished by minute difference. Often painted in black and white, Zhang’s portraits translate the language of photography into paint. Drawing from the generic quality of formal photo studio poses and greyscale palette, Zhang’s figures are nameless and timeless: a series of individual histories represented within the strict confines of formula.
View Zhang Xiaogang paintings, biography, solo exhibitions, group exhibitions and resource of Zhang Xiaogang artist. View art online at The Saatchi Gallery - London contemporary art gallery.
Zhang Xiaogang

Zhang Xiaogang's Biography and Exhibitions

BIOGRAPHY

1958

Born in Kunming, Yunnan province


Selected Exhibitions:-

2000
• Max Protetch Gallery, New York

1999
• Galerie de France, Paris

1989
• Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts,Chongqing

Find more about Zhang Xiaogang Exhibitions at
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/zhang_xiaogang.htm

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