Zhang Hui

🔳Zhang Hui (born 1967) is a Chinese artist. 

He focuses on the relationship between the human body and the spontaneous vertical tension of its upright posture, which forms the implied energy transfer on the canvas, a flow that is reflected throughout all of the works.

A visual game is played out between the viewers and the images: the different angles at which people are placed constitute a continuous process, where the field the individual themselves is located in is transformed into a pristine gravitational space. Like a vertically oriented building, it is filled simultaneously with the strength holding it together and the potential for collapse.

Fragments of the human form are reproduced on a small scale over larger areas of the image, both echoing and creating discontinuities within the picture as a whole. 

In the language of Zhang Hui’s images, background, faces, and objects tend to be indistinct. The longer one studies the paintings, the harder it is to judge the true intentions of the people moving inside them.

The potential energy of each piece goes beyond what is contained in the canvas, negating the possibility of narrative interpretation constrained within the image itself.

At the same time, Zhang Hui implants lumps of color without specific form into the paintings, collapsing the picture plane and individual energy.

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