Exhibitions

‘City of Sky’ by Zhao Zhao – Tang Contemporary Art Bangkok

Tang Contemporary Art Bangkok

Feb 10 - Mar 19, 2022

^{Sky, 2021, Oil on canvas, 150×300cm}
^{All images courtesy of Tang Contemporary Art Bangkok}

Tang Contemporary Art is proud to announce the opening of "City of Sky", the latest solo exhibition by Chinese artist Zhao Zhao, curated by Cui Cancan, at Tang Contemporary Art’s Bangkok space. The exhibition will run from February 10 to March 19, 2022, and will showcase a series of sky paintings developed during the artist's decade-long tour of various countries and towns. It contains sky fragments from Renaissance paintings, clouds from antique Chinese paintings, and blue sky shades from several countries, creating a distant vision that crosses time and space. 

Zhao Zhao began creating Sky in 2009, making it his longest-running subject and one of the starting points for his works in painting. In a series that has lasted for more than a decade, Zhao Zhao uses a symphony of brushstrokes to depict different skies. Brushstrokes of different lengths clearly demarcated rhythms, and shifts between near and far are transmuted in these dozens of sky-related works. This rich Sky series constructs a pictographic and ideographic painted world, replicating a two-fold story about the reality and art history of the sky.

About the Artist

Zhao Zhao (Born in 1982 in Xinjiang, China)
He currently lives and works in Beijing and Los Angeles. In his art, he engages with real subjects in multiple mediums and plays with art forms, emphasizing an exploration of the relationship between the individual and the rest of society. His work is developed around the subtle emotional changes that take place as we are confronted with diverse cultural influences. He brings together the expressive methods of contemporary art and traditional culture to create metaphors for people's living circumstances and modern society's real conditions in a globalized world. His works also reflect his attitudes toward the coexistence of collective and individual ideals. In recent years, Zhao Zhao's bold, radical artistic practice has attracted international attention.