Selected Art Works by Zhang Xiaotao
Zhang Xiaotao was born on 1970 in Hechuan, Chongqing, China, he lives and works in Beijing and Chengdu, China. He is an artist full of enthusiasm and good at argument. He is so talkatively repelling that no one could plunge himself into the conversation You could also be able to read his articles about the paintings (See his article ?The antibody of Paintings----, issued on the 4th edition of ?Art Contemporary? of 2006), or retrieve on his internet bokee which keeps down his art thinking as well to detect out his idea activities and the clear logic of his language. That he thinks so deeply makes us writers who do writing as our profession feels ashamed. He is very conservative, low-pitched and introspective.
Zhang Xiaotao seems to extend still the "feeling" of the 80?s which stands not for the individual entanglement of his psyche or emotion, but for the inner longings himself sensed. This longing is the direct projection and reflection of the "reality " of an artist doggedly stuck to his art , and he confides that the modernism could envisage the real of life and the reality itself. This is closely linked with the social crisis which the modern history of China faces and also stands for an indispensability in the history of China and the one of the features of time in China. What we called the issue consciousness of Zhang Xiaotao is to me the reflection exerted on the historical trend of the modern art and an artist?s sensitiveness and his reflection, expression and ardent on the changes of reality and conflicts. That is to say, his artistic activities tend to be of some concrete aims on reality----on the social issues happening during the time of society transformation and changes ass well as his experiencing and being at this process.. This is the main clue for interpreting Zhang?s art.
Zhang?s art is in fact constituting an individual verbalism similar to the circumstance of the present day?s cultural reality but also of a criticizing capacity. Or the aiming of his artistic activities are all ignited by his real existence circumstance or drained from it. This feature is both of his free selection of being a margin and wandering-about, and also of his rebellion against tradition and the doubts about reality and worries. His works is not for a taste of the aesthetic culture in prevailing, but a wrestle between the social forces pro and against the social reality which is fighting hard, and that is the real charm of his art
Conclusions:
Zhang Xiaotao had already established his own style and the impact of the work had won him a strong reputation in Chinese art circles.Zhang Xiaotao is to me the reflection exerted on the historical trend of the modern art and an artist?s sensitiveness and his reflection, expression and ardent on the changes of reality and conflicts.
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