"Germination and Regeneration - Zhao Zitao Oil Painting Exhibition" was unveiled at Chengdu Daguan Art Museum
Culture Network News On October 23, 2021, at 3 p.m., the "Germination and Regeneration - Zhao Zitao Oil Painting Exhibition" hosted by Daguan Art Museum and co-organized by Chengdu Gallery Association opened at Daguan Art Museum. Many people from Chengdu's cultural, artistic and corporate circles attended the opening ceremony.
The scene of the opening ceremony
This exhibition exhibits the artist's works after graduation and after studying in Japan, and presents the overall selection of Zhao Zitao's pictures and the summarization and regeneration of his previous artistic experience, which is a combing of his years of painting and walking.
Deputy Secretary-General of the Chinese Cultural Association, Executive Editor-in-Chief of China Writers and Artists Magazine, Famous Poet, Curator, and Academic Host of this exhibition Yanxi
Bai You, Chairman of Chengdu Shiyijia Culture Company and President of Chengdu Gallery Association
Fan Huan, young critic, visiting scholar at the University of Worcester, member of the British Historical Society, and Ph.D. of Sichuan University
The protagonist of this exhibition, young artist Zhao Zitao
The collector represents Wang Qi, director of the Years Art Museum
The curator of this exhibition is Yan Bi, director of the Grand View Art Museum and secretary general of the Chengdu Gallery Association
At the opening ceremony, mr. Yan Xi, deputy secretary general of the Chinese Cultural Association, executive editor-in-chief of the Magazine of Chinese Writers and Artists, famous poet and curator, Bai Xiansheng, chairman of Chengdu Shijia Culture Company and president of Chengdu Gallery Association, Ms. Fan Huan, young critic, visiting scholar of the University of Worcester, member of the British Historical Society, and doctor of Sichuan University, young artist Zhao Zitao, and mr. Wang Qi, director of the Collectors' Representative Years Art Museum, delivered speeches one after another, and the curator of this exhibition, The Director of the Grand View Art Museum, Ms. Yan Bi, Secretary General of Chengdu Gallery Association, announced the opening.
Group photo of guests at the scene
It is understood that this exhibition is another solo exhibition by artist Zhao Zitao after his solo exhibition "Starting Point and Trajectory", exhibiting the artist's works after graduation and after studying in Japan, and generally presents the trade-offs made by Zhao Zitao on his pictures and the summarization and regeneration of his previous artistic experience, which is a combing of his years of painting and walking.
Exhibition site
Young people have always led the new wave of art and become the main body of the art scene, and also the main force to promote the development of contemporary art, as far as Chinese contemporary art is concerned, the youth of each period will always stand at the forefront. Most of Zhao Zitao's works take female characters as the theme of performance, pay attention to their fate and inner emotions, from different expressions, face the actual state of existence, there is freshness, there is melancholy, there is cheerfulness, there is sadness, but yearning for beauty, running to happiness.
Zhao Zitao, "Morning Light• Spring", Oil on canvas, 162×112cm, 2019
Zhao Zitao, "Zhou Yi's Morning and Night-2", oil on canvas, 150x100cm, 2021
Zhao Zitao "Lingzi and Hydrangeas 2" Pink on Paper 37.5×25cm 2019
Zhao Zitao "Rose Life 2" Oil on canvas 116×80cm 2019
Zhao Zitao "Crescent", oil on canvas 60×80cm, 2021
"Morning Light • Spring", "Zhou Yi's Morning and Night", "Lingzi and Hydrangea" can be called Zhao Zitao's masterpiece, paying attention to the relationship between technique and color intensity, he is particularly sensitive to morning and night, spring and goddess, special attention, injected into the current state of mind, showing the change of time and cultural character, emphasizing the mobilization of details, this series of female-themed performance constitutes the main line of his artistic creation in recent years; and "Rose Life", through a horse, standing in a vast space, pours out the anxiety of survival and the situation of life, Although there are no roses, you can experience that loneliness is a flower in the depths of the soul, and its aesthetic perspective echoes the poetic beauty, expressing the natural rhythm and ensemble of life. "The Woman Sitting on the Chair" and "Moon Bud" complete the ideal crossing and flying in the reality and fictional dreams, blurry and hazy like nostalgia for the past, looking back, returning to the memory, the work is both light and solemn, paying attention to the effect rendering of the soul and thought in the picture, he or portrays the short and eternal poetry.
In the view of Mr. YanXi, deputy secretary-general of the Chinese Cultural Association, executive editor-in-chief of the Magazine of Chinese Writers and Artists, famous poet and curator of this exhibition, Zhao Zitao has an open mind and a broad intellectual vision, and gradually establishes his own goals and directions. "Germination and regeneration" is his own feelings and impressions after seeing Zhao Zitao's works, and it is also the rational speculation and exploration of the artist after a calm in the current artistic situation, with a unique aesthetic perspective and new insights. "His works are artistic transformations of the course of life and the experience of life, trying to realize the examination and expression of passion, romance to reason, and aesthetics." Focusing on the understanding from reality to the unknown, from graphics to colors, presents his understanding of 'beauty' and 'love', not only heavy form, but also inner, the combination of form, for truth and truth, for beauty and beauty, love for love, its inner light can not be hidden, with a high degree of self-perspective and consciousness to seek a certain sublimation possibility. Among them, the excavation of different angles of the same object and the concealment and manifestation of the whole picture constitute the main line of his recent artistic creation. ”
Mr. He Duoling, Zhao Zitao's teacher and artist, has previously written about his works: There is a type of painter who not only cares about the results of painting, but also enjoys the process of painting. Immerse yourself in the canvas, palette, and paint to kill time and feel like you have a lot of fun. I belong to this kind of person, and so does Zhao Zitao. He likes "painting" more than "meaning" outside of painting. In recent years, people who look at the paintings feel that Zhao Zitao's painting style has changed. For painting, he made trade-offs. "Trade-offs" are an inevitable stage in the growth of a sincere painter. I admire those who resolutely gave up at their peak, abandoned their martial arts, started a new stove, and opened a new path in the thorns. This is a revolutionary, and Zhao Zitao is exactly that.
A corner of the exhibition hall
This exhibition, as a return and baptism of his own soul completed by Zhao Zitao, is the calm after experiencing restlessness, and this aggregation will hide the vitality of life and the charm of art, and he will look at the more distant starry sky.
It is reported that the exhibition will last until November 15, 2021, welcome to the Chengdu High-tech Zone Global Center E2 District 610 Grand View Art Museum on the 6th floor.