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Richard Koh Fine Art (RKFA) is pleased to present Dust by Zhang Zhenyu at Richard Koh Fine Art, Lot No.2F-3, Level 2, Bangsar Village II, Jalan Telawi 1, Bangsar Baru, 59100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 28 October – 18 November 2016. Dust is the Bejing-based artist’s first solo exhibition in Kuala Lumpur. The opening reception will be held on the 28th of October (Friday), from 6 – 9pm.

Zhang Zhenyu, first solo exhibition with the gallery and in Malaysia displays 8 recent dust paintings created between 2014 – 2016. Through a careful repetitive process of gluing found dust sourced from city streets onto the canvas and constructing them through layering, the artist would grind the surface until a polished smooth reflective finish is achieved and a smoky image is conjured. Zhang believes in using simple or even a single expression to convert modest materials into conceptual carriers. Observing the urban reality of modern China and the rampant urbanization, the artist considers dust, a material that is simultaneously omnipresent and intimate in our live as no longer fully natural, but a combination of the by-products of pollution, construction and development happening in the fast-paced developing China.

Zhang Zhenyu (b. 1974, Hunan, China) is an artist based in Beijing, China. He studied oil painting at the Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China, and graduated in 1997. His works with humble materials from the everyday such newspaper and dust and turns them into introspective and reflective artworks. Recent exhibitions include Dust II, Yallay Gallery, Hong Kong (2016) (solo), Artificial Garden, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China (2016); Post-Calligrpahy in Chinese Contemporary Art, Kunstraum Villa Friede, Bonn, Germany (2015); Blow Up -Chinese New Painting at Post-Financial Crisis Era, Changjiang Museum, Changjiang, China (2015).