ZHANG Ruyi: Profile: Project
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ZHANG Ruyi
What and Where 什么和哪里, 2018
Concrete, hinge 混凝土、合页
190 x 67.2 x 4.5 cm
Don Gallery is pleased to announce the launch of ZHANG Ruyi’s solo project “Profile” at Discoveries, 2018 edition of Art Basel in Hong Kong. ZHANG’s artistic practice embeds itself in nothing less than the logic of life. It is centred on the relationship between ego consciousness, physical space, and mundane experience. By withholding certain “slices” of time and information of the material employed, the artist is able to capture, conceal, retain or fabricate the materialization of emotions. “Profile” is an exploration of the frictions between individuals and reality. Its position is that of a discursive apparatus, transforming the tactile into the visual. The works are reinterpretations, so to speak, of mundane elements that suggest the reconstruction of an individual being accommodated by specific situations.
“Profile” is a way of accepting the limited conditions of a room or any interior space, and overcoming them to make a drama of artifacts that re-engages with the lived environment and reconnects art with architecture. ZHANG had already grappled with the genre in her solo exhibition “Building Opposite Building” (2016) and extended it to various institutional contexts as significant in “The New Normal” (2017) at Ullens Center of Contemporary Art, Beijing, and “Walking On The Fade Out Lines” (2018) at Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai. Coined with the idea of “decoration” in the vein, the decorative elements in “Profile” allude to the rational perfection of an industrial landscape and the precise formulation of a man-made nature, possessing the social property of cultivation that constitutes sufficient common ground between them to allow the recognition of a style by the artist as a constant gardener in the city.
ZHANG Ruyi (b. 1985) is an artist currently living and working in Shanghai. She works predominantly in abstract drawing, painting, sculpture and installation. In her practice, sculpture occupies a unique space mediating artifacts, industrial experience and urbanism. ZHANG’s work has been presented by K11 Art Foundation (Hong Kong, 2018), Rockbund Art Museum (Shanghai, 2018), Sadie Coles HQ (London, 2017), Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, 2017), Cass Sculpture Foundation (Chichester, 2016), Sifang Art Museum (Nanjing, 2016), chi K11 art museum (Shanghai, 2016), Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum (Shanghai, 2015), etc. Her solo exhibitions include “Building Opposite Building” (Don Gallery, Shanghai, 2016), “Pause” (White Space Beijing, Beijing, 2016), “Cut | Off” (Don Gallery, Shanghai, 2014), etc. ZHANG is the recipient of Prix YISHU 8 · Chine 2017 and the participant of the 2017 Glenfiddich Artists in Residence Programme.
“Profile” is a way of accepting the limited conditions of a room or any interior space, and overcoming them to make a drama of artifacts that re-engages with the lived environment and reconnects art with architecture. ZHANG had already grappled with the genre in her solo exhibition “Building Opposite Building” (2016) and extended it to various institutional contexts as significant in “The New Normal” (2017) at Ullens Center of Contemporary Art, Beijing, and “Walking On The Fade Out Lines” (2018) at Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai. Coined with the idea of “decoration” in the vein, the decorative elements in “Profile” allude to the rational perfection of an industrial landscape and the precise formulation of a man-made nature, possessing the social property of cultivation that constitutes sufficient common ground between them to allow the recognition of a style by the artist as a constant gardener in the city.
ZHANG Ruyi (b. 1985) is an artist currently living and working in Shanghai. She works predominantly in abstract drawing, painting, sculpture and installation. In her practice, sculpture occupies a unique space mediating artifacts, industrial experience and urbanism. ZHANG’s work has been presented by K11 Art Foundation (Hong Kong, 2018), Rockbund Art Museum (Shanghai, 2018), Sadie Coles HQ (London, 2017), Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, 2017), Cass Sculpture Foundation (Chichester, 2016), Sifang Art Museum (Nanjing, 2016), chi K11 art museum (Shanghai, 2016), Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum (Shanghai, 2015), etc. Her solo exhibitions include “Building Opposite Building” (Don Gallery, Shanghai, 2016), “Pause” (White Space Beijing, Beijing, 2016), “Cut | Off” (Don Gallery, Shanghai, 2014), etc. ZHANG is the recipient of Prix YISHU 8 · Chine 2017 and the participant of the 2017 Glenfiddich Artists in Residence Programme.
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