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  • The Gloomy Wonderland that Ceaselessly Interchanges with Reality by Fu Xiaodong

    The Gloomy Wonderland that Ceaselessly Interchanges with Reality – On Jiang Zhi’s Solo Exhibition “Above the White” Fu Xiaodong In this exhibition, we bid farewell to the Jiang Zhi who is filled with fantasies, touching on sociological investigation, unveiling realistic metaphors, and encounter this Jiang Zhi who is beyond time, illusory, dreamy, melancholic, but still…

  • Jiang Zhi’s Faulty Display by Mathieu Borysevicz

    Jiang Zhi’s Faulty Display Mathieu Borysevicz Things are not what they appear to be: nor are they otherwise. At the outset of 2010,theforty-one-year-old Beijing-based artistJiang Zhi did something drastic. He began painting. For someonewho isconsidered not only a pioneerof new mediaart in China, but one of its foremost representativesand,moreover, perceived as a true nonconformist to…

  • A Work by Jiang Zhi

    A Work Jiang Zhi 1 A few months ago, a curator invited me to participate in an exhibition titled, “Four Seasons”. After he left, I turned on my computer as I wanted to jot down some ideas on my blog to awaken some of my sentiments on seasons. It is almost embarrassing to say this,…

  • An Art Critique on Yang Jia by Jiang Zhi

    An Art Critique on Yang Jia Jiang Zhi Personally speaking, writing an art critique about Yang Jia is a loss making business. However, as an art critic, I am more ambitious than that. I won’t show off my highly developed writing skill this time. One result of watching too much TV and reading far too…

  • Jiang Zhi: Rules of Attraction by Jonathan Thomson

    Jiang Zhi: Rules of Attraction Jonathan Thomson Attraction is all about making connections. Attracting people or things, drawing them closer to oneself or other things, and the ways in which those connections are made (or at the very least made possible) have concerned countless generations of physicists, philosophers, social psychologists, biologists, poets and lovers. Especially…

  • Violence of Blinding Light by Zhu Dake

    Violence of Blinding Light Interpreting Jiang Zhi’s narrative on the Light series Zhu Dake A brief history of the narration of light The eye, the world and the light that illuminates the world, are the three fundamental elements for the birth of images. The ontological meaning of light, in other words the duality of bright…

  • Jiang Zhi: At the Intersection of Poetics and Sociology By Bao Dong

    Jiang Zhi: At the Intersection of Poetics and Sociology By Bao Dong Jiang Zhi is an artist who developed amidst a backdrop of 1990s experimental art in China, during which the country underwent a series social transformations. This includes changes in the political atmosphere and switch in economical tendencies, and the consequent utter reform of…

  • On Jiang Zhi

    Jiang Zhi Jiang Zhi (°1971, Hunan, China) makes paintings, photos, media art and installations. By taking daily life as subject matter while commenting on the everyday aesthetic of middle class values, Jiang Zhi creates intense personal moments masterfully created by means of rules and omissions, acceptance and refusal, luring the viewer round and round in…