The "post-80s" Chinese artists in France Xiang Zhenhua and Wu Hao's solo exhibition opened at the Horizon Gallery in Paris on the evening of the 8th local time, and the opening ceremony was attended by Remy Aron, president of the French Artists Association, Yin Fu, director of the Chinese Cultural Center in Paris, and a number of French art circles and contemporary art collectors.
The exhibition, entitled "Portraits of Paradox", features more than 20 masterpieces by two artists. Xiang Zhenhua, who graduated from the Gobran École de école de école des égis des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, exhibited large-scale video works to present everyday objects that have been ignored and discarded; Wu Hao graduated from the Chinese Painting Major of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, studied in Paris for 6 years, completely broke the limitations of traditional Chinese painting theory, still used traditional pen and ink rice paper for creation, but has been using the lines of Chinese painting and Western composition to construct a space that carries spirit and emotion, and thus returns to the spiritual origin of traditional Chinese art.
According to the curator of the Paris Horizon Gallery, the selection of the works of two artists with very different styles to be exhibited side by side in the gallery this time intuitively contrasts with each other, forming a new tension. At the same time, both works present the aesthetic meaning of "elephant invisible" through the subtle transformation of "between visible and invisible" and "paradoxical".
Galerie Paris Horizon is located in the Marais cultural district of Paris, the head of the gallery said that in recent years, more and more French collectors have begun to pay attention to and collect works by Chinese artists, and the gallery hopes to make full use of the good geographical location and exhibition space to highlight Chinese artists with talent and potential.
Text: Xinhua News Agency's paris-based correspondent Shang Xu