Artist:Zhou Siwei
Exhibition dates: May 31th – July 20th, 2014
Tel: +86 21 52527164
Email: shanghai@aikedellarco.com
Website: www.dearco.it

Opening: 5-­‐8pm, May 31th (Saturday), 2014
AIKE-­‐DELLARCO 0 space | Room 102, Bldg 0, 50 Moganshan Rd, Shanghai

AIKE-­‐DELLARCO is pleased to announce Zhou Siwei’s first solo exhibition in Shanghai, opening on 31 and on view until July 20. The Exhibition will showcase A series of recent paintings And installation pieces. The title “A Round Studio” derives from the artist’s notion of his own practice, which he views as a cyclical Journey of repetition, evolution, and progression.

Palette, 2013, Oil on canvas, 调色板, 布面油画, 130 x 150cm

Zhou Siwei constructs his paintings and installations Utilizing predetermined sets of colors forms and sequences. Through a process that entails both repetition and randomness, these acquire new context. Purportedly ordinary and banal images constitute the starting points of a cyclical sequence of gestures whose ultimate purpose lies in asserting a novel visual logic based on the manipulation and re-°©‐engineering of all pre-°©‐ existing structures.

In His studio, the artist adopts an identical method for all the pieces simultaneously, so that each individual work is the beginning and the end of another. For this show the artist creates an ideal space embedded in a Möbius Loop, For viewers to parse out the relationshipsbetween one work and another, and each single part within the whole.

Zhou Siwei Was born in Chongqing in 1981, now Lives and Works in Beijing. His recent Exhibition includes “Rendering”, Aike-°©‐Dellarco, Shanghai, 2013; “Memo I”, White Space Beijing, Beijing, China, 2013; “Painting Lesson III: Elementary and extreme Structure, Gallery Yang, Beijing, 2013; “Cohere & Unroll”, Space station, Beijing, 2012; “China – Chongqing 2 Artist exchange program”, Künstler In Düsseldorf , Germany, 2012;