Overview
衍之五十六， 油画（绘画装置）102.5x77.5cm， 2019
Zhai Xuanhong's current creating philosophy is "subtracting outside, adding inside". Therefore, he consciously removed the strong color, and white is the most in line with his state of mind.
The thin white is the bright part, while the thickness is the dark. It’s a different creating way to complete an artwork through the subtle contrast of pure white with traditional oil painting techniques. In addition, white is the most environmentally susceptible color: the white “Scenery” series also grows and changes as the sun's trajectory changes, "between the visible and the hidden", experiencing its life cycle every day.
There is a strong metaphor for the modern metropolis in the “New Series”. His works contains not only pigments piling of various shapes and instantaneous pulling out, but also focus changing through adjusting color. Using a seemingly industrial approach, he stacked the neonlight tubes shaped pigments on the canvas, on which he would then style and color carefully in a seemingly tiring way, as if to give the picture a three-dimensional look, or to find a sense of existence bit by bit in the complex metropolitan life.
1987 B. Changde, Hunan, China
2012 B.F.A, Oil Painting Department, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute
** Currently working and living in Shanghai
Accolades
Selected Solo exhibition
2022 Overlight, MUXI Gallery, Shanghai
2021 Relational Term, sina museum, shanghai
Selected Group Exhibition
2022 Entr'acte, ArtCN, Shanghai
2021 Earthscapes, ArtCN, Shanghai
Spring, Grace Collection Gallery, Shanghai
Quadrant, ARTL GALLERY, SHanghai/suzhou
2020 “Crossing” image development: Narrative as an image text,
8342 Art Space, Shanghai
Awards
Graduation creation "Diffraction" won the Outstanding Graduation Creation
Scholarship of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute
2012 Annual Nomination Exhibition of Contemporary Art College Students,
Beijing-Today Art Museum
2013 New Talent Award, The 4th New Stars Art Festival, Guangzhou Poly World
Trade Center
Works
Exhibitions
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The 5th Cheerful & Blessed Collection 2023
Special Group Exhibition : Chinese & Foreign 26 Artists 13 Oct - 15 Dec 2023Since its establishment, ARTL Gallery has been organizing the 'Joy of Treasures' exhibition once a year, and this year is the fifth time. This year's exhibition will be held from...Read more -
ZHEN PIN XI LE 2022
The 4th Cheerful & Blessed Collection 22 Dec 2022 - 15 Jan 2023Participating artists: Chen Qiang, Nan Qi, Zhao Mengge, Wu Shuang, Shen Shubin, Huang Yuanqing, Lee Dongsu, Yu Cun, Suk Chuljoo, Hwang JeaSung, Lee Jeongwoong, Yin Zhaoyu, Wei Yangyang, Moon, Hyeongtae, Seoung Taijin, Kim Sunjoo, Ryou Jaihyun, Han Sangyoon, Xu Jingfu, Huang Saifeng, Zhai Xuanhong, Zhao Bing, Wang Xiaoshuang, Yoon Sangyoon, Kim Jongsook, Sun Yong, Zhang Yuying, Mickey, Wang Yunman, Wang Meibo, Cao Ou, Sul Hui, Indra Dodi, Bernadine Johnson Kamara, Joy Pitjara, Genevieve Loy Kemarre, Cindy Morton Powerle.Read more -
QUADRANT
WANG Xiaoshuang, ZHAI Xuanhong, HUANG Saifeng, ZHAO Bing Joint Exhibition 12 Mar - 30 Apr 2021ARTL Gallery cooperated with Hui Shuwen, director of Shanghai Young Art Museum, and invited him as the curator of the exhibition QUADRANT to jointly present selected works by four young...Read more
Art Fairs
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10th AArt SHANGHAI 2021
29 - 31 Oct 2021As the first international hotel-oriented art fair in China, AArt takes Shanghai as its name and takes 'the dialogue between art and life' as its...Read more -
ART XIAMEN 2021
17 - 20 Jun 20212021 'Art Xiamen' Contemporary Fair will be exhibited at the Xiamen International Conference & Exhibition Center, Nearly 80 top galleries and institutions from 18 countries...Read more -
ART BEIJNG 2021
30 Apr - 3 May 2021Art Beijing 2021 featured more than 150 art galleries and institutions, including the following five sections, Contemporary Art, Classic Art, Photo Beijing Special Exhibition, Design...Read more