Lingrui Zhang
Lingrui Zhang
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Group Portrait of Trees, 2019
Oil on panel
30.4 x 40.6 cm
About this work
In this work, wooden clothes racks have been embedded within a forest landscape. The form of the clothes rack is tree-like in composure, but has been abstracted from its natural state through processes such as grinding and module assembly, figments of the industrial production system. Here, they stand out against the forest-scape from which they have been drawn. Through this placement, Zhang considers the coexistence of large-scale mechanical production alongside the primitive natural ecosystem.
About Lingrui Zhang
Lingrui Zhang (b.1994, Anhui, China) is currently based in Beijing. He gained his MA from the Royal College of Art, London, in 2020, where he also gained his BA in 2017. Zhang has featured in group exhibitions internationally, including: the Art Museum of CAA, Hangzhou, Royal Academy of Art, London, West Bund Art Centre, Shanghai, 69 Campus Art Centre, Beijing, Hockney Gallery, London, Sunny Art Centre, London, Coningsby Gallery, London, C2 Space, North District, and OCAT-LOFT, Shenzhen.
Zhang’s recent practice engages the pictorial and schematic language of painting itself. Most of the objects depicted have gone through self-dissolution and the concealment of specific identities and characteristics; the artist approaches meta-painting through his work. Zhang pays attention to the extension of the painting medium as an ontology, and how it participates in the broad visual observation of people in the contemporary context. He tries to free himself from the boundaries between objects, images and materiality, in order to cultivate a psychological separation between the work and the viewer.
Education
2020 Royal College of Art, London, MA Fine Art
2017 Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, BA Fine Art
Exhibitions
2021 Site of Transivity, 69 Campus Art Centre, Beijing
2021 A Dialogue in Winder — Yanjiao Biennial Art 2020, Yanjiao, Hebei
2020 RCA x FutureLab 2020-Phase Transition, West Bund Art Centre, Shanghai
2020 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2020 Wintergreen Boxwood, No 20 Arts, London
2020 50/50, Fold Gallery, London
2020 RCA2020 Degree show, online, London
2020 Final, not Over, Unit 1 Gallery, London
2020 Be water, my friend, Dyson Gallery, London
2020 Blessing in Disguise, Saint Maison Gallery, London
2020 Snapshot, Hockey Gallery, London
2019 Playground V.2, Venue MOT Unit 18 & Unit 20, London
2019 Sunny Art Prize 2019 Exhibition, Sunny Art Centre, London
2019 SIMU-LACRES, No Space, Beijing/London
2019 The Hidden Dimension, Coningsby Gallery, London
2017 Antibody — Fresh Vision, C2 Space, North District, OCAT-LOFT, Shenzhen
2016 105 Art Salon Opening Exhibition, 105 Art Salon, Beijing
2015 The Fictitious Present——INTER YOUTH, Art Museum of CAA, Hangzhou
2014 The Realm of Advaita, Today Art Museum, Beijing
Publications
2017 <A Guide: Selected Works of Contemporary Emerging Artists>, Xilingyinshe Press