精神與風景
以往 exhibition
Zhao Zhao 趙趙
Sky 2021-07《天空 2021-07》, 2021
Oil on canvas 布上油彩
88 x 88cm
Concept behind Sky series by Zhao Zhao: ‘I first began the Sky series in 2009 contemplating on the permanent pollution of Beijing where the sky is rarely blue. As I...
Concept behind Sky series by Zhao Zhao:
‘I first began the Sky series in 2009 contemplating on the permanent pollution of Beijing where the sky is rarely blue. As I was executing it, I instinctively thought about the real sky, wanting to reference some form of flow... but photographs are static. During that time, I could not see what the sky really looked like. For things I haven’t seen in a long time, I need to draw from my own memory and subconscious to depict them. In a way, behind the Sky series is my fabrication of the sky.
I was returning indoors to complete a monochrome depiction of something from the outdoors. It was not reliant on photographs, or on the range of colours. I used Prussian and Rembrandt blue. This is a rather forgiving colour, which is why I say it is like ink. I used its two extremes, black and white, as well as its intermediary hue, blue. I grasped the different shades and hues that emerged between. I also constrained my own abilities as much as possible.’
‘I first began the Sky series in 2009 contemplating on the permanent pollution of Beijing where the sky is rarely blue. As I was executing it, I instinctively thought about the real sky, wanting to reference some form of flow... but photographs are static. During that time, I could not see what the sky really looked like. For things I haven’t seen in a long time, I need to draw from my own memory and subconscious to depict them. In a way, behind the Sky series is my fabrication of the sky.
I was returning indoors to complete a monochrome depiction of something from the outdoors. It was not reliant on photographs, or on the range of colours. I used Prussian and Rembrandt blue. This is a rather forgiving colour, which is why I say it is like ink. I used its two extremes, black and white, as well as its intermediary hue, blue. I grasped the different shades and hues that emerged between. I also constrained my own abilities as much as possible.’
Provenance
3812 Gallery
Directly from the artist
展覽
Hong Kong, 3812 Gallery, As Water, group exhibition, 26 January – 28 February, 2023
London, 3812 Gallery, Masterpiece London Art Fair, Stand 617, Spirit and Landscape, June 30 – July 6, 2022
出版
3812 Gallery, Masterpiece London Art Fair catalogue, Spirit and Landscape, London, 2022, p.57