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Gang Zhao. Earlier Works
Exhibition
Gang Zhao. Earlier Works
29 Jun 2017 – 2 Sep 2017
Address
- Rosa-Luxemburg-Str. 33
- Berlin
Berlin - 10178
- Germany
As one of the youngest members of the “Star Group”, Gang Zhao participated in some of post-1949 China’s earliest modern art exhibitions before pursuing his own career in New York.
About
His paintings explore the themes of the legacy of imperial systems, politics and heritage, between both the Asian world and the Western world. Being an artist of bilateral heritage, Gang Zhao reflects on canonized Western positions from a transcultural perspective. His latest museum exhibitions include “The Road to Serfdom II”, 2016 at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Sanitago de Chile, “Paramour’s Garden”, 2015 at the Suzhou Museum, Suzhou, “The Road to Serfdom”, 2015, at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing.
In showing this exhibition of earlier works by Gang Zhao in our Berlin Kabinett parallel to our Kippenberger show at the gallery, we would like to suggest a certain connection.
Both painters are often described as exceptionally prolific and bitingly sarcastic. In retrospective, Kippenberger’s productivity can be seen as a “critical affirmation” of late capitalism, while Gang Zhao’s work could be read as a “critical affirmation” of late communism, namely, as once described by philosopher and sinologist Francois Jullien: “capitalist bulimia flanked by the communist party”.
