Hidden 83

acrylic on canvas

30 x 60 cm

Statement

Most of my works were figurative and realistic in the first dozen years. There was also a conscious formal change in that period of time, which was reflected in the production process from thick to thin, and the content presentation from complex to simple. After five or six years of work, I once again fell into a creative bottleneck. The content was repeated and the passion was exhausted. Hesitantly I started experimenting with abstraction six years ago. Abstraction is not a new thing in the art world, but it was a new field that I have never ventured into. The buildings that had taken more than 20 years of hard work to be built in the past were torn down, their foundations were prepared, and reconstruction began. After experiencing successes and failures through repeated attempts, I create several series such as "Saltation", "Hidden", "Dome" and "Infiltration" in six years.

The "Saltation" series is a partial continuation of the past figurative brushwork, retaining the "circumstance" of the image. Line symbols of various shapes are placed in the dense illusion, and the coexistence and confrontation between blur and clarity, nothingness and reality are used to present the scene.

The "Hidden" series is the in-depth and extension of the "Saltation" series. Only line symbols are retained, and the elements of the picture composition become purer. Using infinite levels of coverage of line symbols, the final result is the overlapping accumulation of countless line symbols, which are mutually dislocated, blocked, and superimposed. The line symbols go from one, two to N, covering the canvas bit by bit; then one, two to N layers. Actually, they are the interpretation of time and the record of life.

The "Dome" and "Infiltration" series of works maintain the creative ideas and production procedures of the "Hidden" series while making new attempts to break the two-dimensional plane of painting and expand to a three-dimensional space. Especially the "Infiltration" series, which has completely left the wall, is an in-depth combination of painting and sculpture. The overall appearance with rounded curved surfaces as the basic modeling elements is combined with surface painting to cover the body, embodying the subtlety and restraint of Eastern culture.

Exhibitions

Zhao Junzhong, professional artist, native of Shanghai, China, was born in Qingzhou, Shandong in 1972.

Education experience

From 2010 to 2012, Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing;

from 1992 to 1994, Shandong Academy of Arts.

Work experience

From 2005 to the present, Zhao Junzhong's personal art studio in Shanghai.

From 1996 to 2005, the art director of Shanghai Chen Yifei Art Studio.

International awards in recent years

In 2022, the "First Abstract Art Exhibition" International Art Grand Prix won the Painting Award Artist Space Gallery;

In 2022, "Dystopia Plan A - Paris Exhibition" won the Gold Award of the exhibition, Galerie Francis Barlier, Paris, France;

In 2022, the "First "Green" International Art Competition" won the Outstanding Art Award Art Room Gallery;

In 2022, "Spiel allein - London Contemporary Art Exhibition" won the best painting award in the exhibition, Gallery 46, London, UK;

2022 Bronze Medal at the 5th Annual All Abstracts 2022 International Juried Art Exhibition Camelback Gallery, Arizona, USA;

In 2022, "The Voice of Awakening - Paris Contemporary Art Review Exhibition" won the Best Painting Award, Galerie Francis Barlier, Paris, France.

Selected exhibition experience -  Featured solo exhibitions

2022: "Quietly Surging Time - Zhao Junzhong Solo Exhibition", Shanghai Kutz Art Center

2021 "Emerging" Zhao Junzhong Solo Exhibition, Beijing Common Art Center

2017 "Unreal—Zhao Junzhong Works Exhibition", Shanghai Meibo Art Center

2016 "Zhao Junzhong Oil Painting Exhibition", Shanghai Garden

2015 "Status - Zhao Junzhong Oil Painting Exhibition", Art Museum of Shanghai Oil Painting and Sculpture Institute

2014 "Status - Zhao Junzhong Oil Painting Exhibition", Yellow River Art Museum, Dongying, Shandong

2014 "Status - Zhao Junzhong Oil Painting Exhibition", Today Art Museum, Beijing

Selected exhibitions

2022 "Spiel allein - London Contemporary Art Exhibition", Gallery 46, London, UK

2022 "Anti-Utopia Plan A - Paris Exhibition" Galerie Francis Barlier, Paris, France

2022 "London Contemporary 2022 – 4th Edition" art fair THE LINE Contemporary Art Space, London, UK

2022 "Awakening Voices - Paris Contemporary Art Jury Exhibition", Galerie Francis Barlier, Paris, France

2022 "London Open Art" The Holy Art Gallery, London, UK

2022 "Vogue 4th Edition" Boomer Gallery, London, UK

2021 Boundaries? Contemporary Art Exhibition Shanghai Xinhua Center

2019 Foresight—Exhibition of Works by Contemporary Famous Artists Shanghai Yuhong Art Center

2019 "Invisible and Unreal" Contemporary Art Exhibition Shanghai Yuhong Art Center

2018 "Encounters of Beauty" International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Shanghai Yuhong Art Center

2018 Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Reform and Opening Up - Shandong Oil Painting Exhibition, Shandong Art Museum

In 2015, the 8th AAC art, ecology and observation tour exhibition in the United States

2014 The 8th AAC Art, Ecology, Observation Tour Exhibition Singapore Station

2014 "Multi-dimensional, Scattered Exploration in the Broken Era" - 2014 Young Artists Program

2014 "Transmutation" - Exhibition of Eight Works of the 17th Postgraduate Main Course Class of the Oil Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts

2014 "Looking for the Blues" New Zealand Sketching Art Tour Exhibition"

In 2013, he graduated from the training class of the Oil Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, and participated in the "Phoenix China-Young Artists Program 2012-2013" painting exhibition in the same year

2008 Shanghai International Decorative Art Exhibition