Zhao Yiqian 赵一浅
b.1982, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China
Zhao Yiqian's artworks express the intention to break free of the rules and constraints of the system. He uses the microscopic everyday experience as his entry point, seeking balance in a place beyond the quotidian, perhaps showing a surprising facet, and then returns to clarity and tranquility. He loves casting his gaze on those things in individual life experience that are full of emotional import. His works convey tender "micro-emotional" and "micronarrative" forms, using the forms in his paintings to raise questions, and seeking the answers through the narrative information within. Thus, the openness of his artworks allows the viewers to draw from their own experience and intuition as they grasp, understand, associate and imagine on their own.
At the moment when the trend of commercial consumption is overwhelming, everyone is being held hostage by business. We will be superimposed by many things. The trend that everyone is pursuing today is only weak and looks cool but behind it is in fact empty. I maintain a counter-trend mentality in order to find a feeling and society that is more humanistic. We must not only have a formal trend, but also have to go to a farther history and future to explore the issue, in order to make the present more valuable.
—— Zhao Yiqian
| RELATED EXHIBITIONS |
NEW IDOL
Zhao Yiqian Solo Exhibition
2019.11.10 - 2019.12.10
