Parkview Green Art is honoured to announce the opening of Ren Zhe’s solo exhibition The Enlightened Ones, featuring the artist's latest sculptures and the Hahnemühle inkjet printmaking works from the same series presented for the first time. The exhibition, alongside the space of Parkview Green Art, stretches also to the indoor and outdoor spaces of the Parkview Green FangCaoDi, where visitors can admire his large-scale works such as Dust and Twelve Zodiac.
Works from the series Twelve Zodiac encompass Ren Zhe’s understanding of the notion of time, including the concepts related to endlessness, inconsistency, alternation between light and shadow, passing down to generations. The representation of the twelve symbolic animals of the Chinese Zodiac reflects the multifaceted existential condition of all living beings in the world. Everything about life is illusionary: prosperity and decline, gathering and dispersion are all temporary. During our existential journey in the mortal world, we should be aware that while us, as human beings are small, the universe is large. Though our life is full of regrets, every simple movement might turn into dust. Self-cultivation and self-examination will help us to live in this world. Despite the adversities, one should have a willfully free and unrestrained approach: through the vision of the universe and of the self, one can finally see all beings.
Ren Zhe’s works focus on the flow and the energy in their totality, and such abstract notions are personified by the concrete sculptures made in bronze or stainless steel, which express Ren Zhe's philosophy in art and in life. His works represent an all-encompassing positivity, which from Ren Zhe's vantage point could only be achieved from within, starting with one's self. There is a warrior within us, one which conquers, rather than is conquered by, the world.
The Englightened Ones will run until 2022.
Parkview Green Art is honoured to announce the opening of Ren Zhe’s solo exhibition The Enlightened Ones, featuring the artist's latest sculptures and the Hahnemühle inkjet printmaking works from the same series presented for the first time. The exhibition, alongside the space of Parkview Green Art, stretches also to the indoor and outdoor spaces of the Parkview Green FangCaoDi, where visitors can admire his large-scale works such as Dust and Twelve Zodiac.
Works from the series Twelve Zodiac encompass Ren Zhe’s understanding of the notion of time, including the concepts related to endlessness, inconsistency, alternation between light and shadow, passing down to generations. The representation of the twelve symbolic animals of the Chinese Zodiac reflects the multifaceted existential condition of all living beings in the world. Everything about life is illusionary: prosperity and decline, gathering and dispersion are all temporary. During our existential journey in the mortal world, we should be aware that while us, as human beings are small, the universe is large. Though our life is full of regrets, every simple movement might turn into dust. Self-cultivation and self-examination will help us to live in this world. Despite the adversities, one should have a willfully free and unrestrained approach: through the vision of the universe and of the self, one can finally see all beings.
Ren Zhe’s works focus on the flow and the energy in their totality, and such abstract notions are personified by the concrete sculptures made in bronze or stainless steel, which express Ren Zhe's philosophy in art and in life. His works represent an all-encompassing positivity, which from Ren Zhe's vantage point could only be achieved from within, starting with one's self. There is a warrior within us, one which conquers, rather than is conquered by, the world.
The Englightened Ones will run until 2022.