Zhao Nengzhi "Confessional Figuration"
China Square
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ChinaSquare Gallery presents Zhao Nengzhi: Confessional Figuration. Born in the early 1960s, Zhao Nengzhi belongs to a generation old enough to remember the Cultural Revolution and has been shaped by the disappointments of Tiananmen Square. His disturbed, disturbing faces act as troubled witnesses to a culture filled with the wish for things. Interestingly, however, the terms of the figures' disaffection and anomie is essentially private rather than public; Zhao's red faces, painted in sizes large enough to evoke landscape, do not rely on external references to make their point; instead, hardship has been internalized, so that Zhao's portraits communicate mostly psychological distress.
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from June 05, 2008 to June 28, 2008