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Parkview Green Art798 is pleased to announce the opening of “Not as ItSeems”, Zou Liang’s solo exhibition, at Parkview Green Art 798 at 15:30 on July11, 2015. With Xia Yanguo, a renowned critic, as academic host, the exhibition willlast until August 16, 2015. 


Like his first solo in 2011, this exhibition, based on the artist’s personal experience, can be viewedas his effort to objectify, formalize, enlarge and re-think his feelings andjudgment at a certain moment, but in this one we see more exploration in theindeterminate and complex aspects of the relation between human beings themselvesand the world around. 


This exhibition tellsof an artist trying to capture momentary experience and attitude and keep themin the form of memory-based sentiment and sate of mind by means of blurredimages, differentiated coloring, and dynamic treatment. The intrinsic subtlechanges hidden in the stasis are expected to facilitate the emotionalinteraction and response between the works and the audience. 


As is implied in itstitle, the exhibition, on the whole, also embodies theartist’s persistently reflective attitude toward life and reality. 

FORWORD

ZouLiang is presenting us a new solo. The works to be presented this time arerelated to those at the previous one four years ago as continuation, as well asdiversion.

Onone hand, he continues to draw on his personal experience and capture by meansof a sculpture or an installation, in a real and vivid way, his mood and stateof mind while he is thinking about a specific question in a specific place at aspecific time. In this case, he believes, art production is not only arepresentation and collection of his receptive memory but a process ofrethinking. The stubbornness in his character makes it difficult to shiftrapidly from one question to another, therefore enabling him to immerse himselfin art production and to distill his reflections about life and his experience.In an age marked with an excess of information and updated entertainmentprograms, his works, however, show some quality of being “slow”. In otherwords, art, in his understanding, should be far from vulgar and functional, andrather, it should return to the essence, that is, art, as language, as a meansof expression, has to express authentically what an artist really wants to say. 

Asaudience, we tend to give our judgment about a work of art in a broader frameof reference, but in Zou’s work, there is no frame of reference in thebeginning, and as an artist, he is related to the work in a very simple way: itis all about a dialogue between two subjects. According to Wittgenstein, nolanguage is private, and everything can be public. To display means making aprivate language public. In this sense, an artist’s effort in creation and hisprofound thinking make up the basis of empathy from the audience.  

Bycontrast to his previous works that seemed to be a monologue, these new worksinvolve no longer the artist alone, but “I” and “other” in a dialogue, showingan analytical social perspective. There is more rational thinking on the partof the artist, who now focuses on his subtle relation with the world in hisreflection and consideration. Such rationality finds expression in the artist’scautious effort to express his intuitive thinking by means of appropriate anddiversified sculptural discourse and techniques, like color, material and modeling,as well as in his dialectical understanding of the relation between everythinginvolved, as is shown in “Brothers”, “Each other”, “Reflecting”, etc. Theseworks reveal a non-monotonic perspective in presenting the relations in astructural context, so not only the dynamic becomes static, but also what iseasily overlooked in everyday life is refocused on and placed in a relationalcontext based on the changeable relation. The previous relation based onexperience is not only structuralized but also deconstructed wittingly orunwittingly, highlighting the fragility and indefiniteness of the relationbetween human beings themselves and their relation to the world.


Parkview Green Art798 is pleased to announce the opening of “Not as ItSeems”, Zou Liang’s solo exhibition, at Parkview Green Art 798 at 15:30 on July11, 2015. With Xia Yanguo, a renowned critic, as academic host, the exhibition willlast until August 16, 2015. 


Like his first solo in 2011, this exhibition, based on the artist’s personal experience, can be viewedas his effort to objectify, formalize, enlarge and re-think his feelings andjudgment at a certain moment, but in this one we see more exploration in theindeterminate and complex aspects of the relation between human beings themselvesand the world around. 


This exhibition tellsof an artist trying to capture momentary experience and attitude and keep themin the form of memory-based sentiment and sate of mind by means of blurredimages, differentiated coloring, and dynamic treatment. The intrinsic subtlechanges hidden in the stasis are expected to facilitate the emotionalinteraction and response between the works and the audience. 


As is implied in itstitle, the exhibition, on the whole, also embodies theartist’s persistently reflective attitude toward life and reality. 

FORWORD

ZouLiang is presenting us a new solo. The works to be presented this time arerelated to those at the previous one four years ago as continuation, as well asdiversion.

Onone hand, he continues to draw on his personal experience and capture by meansof a sculpture or an installation, in a real and vivid way, his mood and stateof mind while he is thinking about a specific question in a specific place at aspecific time. In this case, he believes, art production is not only arepresentation and collection of his receptive memory but a process ofrethinking. The stubbornness in his character makes it difficult to shiftrapidly from one question to another, therefore enabling him to immerse himselfin art production and to distill his reflections about life and his experience.In an age marked with an excess of information and updated entertainmentprograms, his works, however, show some quality of being “slow”. In otherwords, art, in his understanding, should be far from vulgar and functional, andrather, it should return to the essence, that is, art, as language, as a meansof expression, has to express authentically what an artist really wants to say. 

Asaudience, we tend to give our judgment about a work of art in a broader frameof reference, but in Zou’s work, there is no frame of reference in thebeginning, and as an artist, he is related to the work in a very simple way: itis all about a dialogue between two subjects. According to Wittgenstein, nolanguage is private, and everything can be public. To display means making aprivate language public. In this sense, an artist’s effort in creation and hisprofound thinking make up the basis of empathy from the audience.  

Bycontrast to his previous works that seemed to be a monologue, these new worksinvolve no longer the artist alone, but “I” and “other” in a dialogue, showingan analytical social perspective. There is more rational thinking on the partof the artist, who now focuses on his subtle relation with the world in hisreflection and consideration. Such rationality finds expression in the artist’scautious effort to express his intuitive thinking by means of appropriate anddiversified sculptural discourse and techniques, like color, material and modeling,as well as in his dialectical understanding of the relation between everythinginvolved, as is shown in “Brothers”, “Each other”, “Reflecting”, etc. Theseworks reveal a non-monotonic perspective in presenting the relations in astructural context, so not only the dynamic becomes static, but also what iseasily overlooked in everyday life is refocused on and placed in a relationalcontext based on the changeable relation. The previous relation based onexperience is not only structuralized but also deconstructed wittingly orunwittingly, highlighting the fragility and indefiniteness of the relationbetween human beings themselves and their relation to the world.