Time: 3PM-5PM, Sunday, 21st Sep, 2014
Venue: L-Art Gallery
Organizer: L-Art Gallery
Participants: Lu Jing, Zhang Tianjun and visistors
In Search For the Fountain of Youth is a comprehensive extension for Zhang Tianjun’s practice as a continuation of an exhibition theme. This exhibition is a cooperation project between L-Art Gallery (Chengdu) and V ART CENTER (Shanghai). L-Art Gallery cordially invite you to attend Solo Exhibition of Zhan Tianjun at 3 PM on September 20th.
Zhang Tianjun’s painting attempts to adopt the layout of traditional Chinese painting, luring the audience’s vision with delineating, tinging and texture stokes in all sorts of hues and offering a peculiar visual field. The artist does not favor the texture result yielded from piling up paints in Western oil painting. He prefers the repeated smudging brushwork in the Song Dynasty Chinese painting and likes to make slow overlying of layers in his painting. In the creation, Zhang Tianjun has been trying to find out how to maximize the effect he wants with certain materials and media. Common canvas and paints can as well present a saturated mountain scenery. Observing the series painting of “Two Pines with Seven Colors”, one will be imperceptibly attracted by the enchanting look of the mountain rocks. They are sparing no effort to touch the sky, or dancing to the poignant music by overlapping each other. With mists of different colors, they are leading you onto a dreamy land. In “Refuge”, the appearance of animals broke the original peace of the picture; the plot has been complicated. They crushed into the deserted land alone, only to find themselves trapped with no way out. The fairyland composed by artificial rocks has become the only habitat.
At 3pm on September 21st, L-Art Gallery will also host an art dialogue salon: Zhang Tianjun and his “Fountain of Youth”. The audience can communicate with the artist face to face, which helps understand more directly the artist and his works. Through the communication, the myth why the artist favoring easel painting but not indulging in simple visual images will be solved; meanwhile, the artist will state his aesthetical recognition of reproducing traditional media and materials during his obsession with Song and Yuan landscape themes.
Zhang Tianjun
Born in Shanghai, graduated from China Academy of Art. Recent solo exhibitions include: In Search For the Fountain of Youth (V ART CENTER space2, L-Art Gallery, Shanghai, Chengdu, 2014), Far Beyond Mist and Wave (PINE’S ART, Taipei, 2014), Fountain of Youth (Aether space, Beijing, 2012), Hiding in Blue (Whom House, Hangzhou,2009). Recent group exhibitions include: the Halo Effect (V-art Center, Shanghai, 2012), Spot Light (18 Gallery, Shanghai, 2012), Breakthrough (Museum of China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, 2009), Nominate 2009: Contemporary Art Exhibition of Young Artists (Today Art Museum, Beijing, 2009), Debutant’s Social Talk (Qing Art Space, Hangzhou, 2009), Express & Attitude (Duolun Museum of Modern art, Shanghai, 2008), Star of Century (Museum of China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, 2008).
