CJ Zhang: Somewhere from Nowhere

The world prefers roses. Since the development of civilization, roses have been gave with symbolic significance in various periods and have strong consciousness guidance. From the era of the gods in ancient Greece to the Renaissance, the rose has been praised as the symbol of Aphrodite (goddess of love), and has also been shown its rich humanistic significance by scholars, artists and philosophers.

CJ Zhang's new solo exhibition "Somewhere from Nowhere", takes the "CJ Rose" series as the core. Through the clear and traceable contact creation, the artist weaves a complex multi-phase scene from far, but a strange space indexed by the non-phase rose when getting close. The artist deconstructs and reconstructs the deified and materialized rose from a metaphysical point of view, making it more contemporary and thus arousing the resonance of contemporary people.

Tracing CJ Zhang's artistic career and his previous works, His brushwork and artistic thoughts are sharp and active, he constantly witnesses and inherits the spirit of the flower. The contact point in the painting is infinitely extended and evolved until it can reach the forefront of this era. Then go deep into the boundless fantasy land in the art world to explore the intersection of the diversity of forms and the unknown.

The irrational lines and strokes in the artist's paintings dispel the boundary between nature and non-nature, and overlap them into a state of being or not being. In the context of loss, exploration, growth, immersion and rebirth, subvert the imagination and consolation that represent love and beauty, overturn the solidified impression in people's subconscious. The rose, which has lost its labels and separated from the traditional framework, has abandoned the appearance of the object, and will open up the inner circle of infinite, enter the realm of speechless true self, and go straight to the essence of nature.

Rose is the exuberant expression of life and desire, like the flowing water of life, invisible and endless. CJ Zhang created a new context for this exhibition. It represents the artist's creative technique: from point to line, line to surface; Then form symbols and contacts, then imagine an opposite world and a parallel universe by observing everything. Explore the unexamined area between human dominance and recessiveness. With a new starting point, open a new opportunity.

Under the seemingly extremely complex shell, CJ Zhang's works reflect the essence of our current era: when there is enough information, any two points can and must be connected. The artist reconstructs and extends his collection and insight into the things around him in a non-linear form into his works. With the infinitely extended picture structure and utopian imagination, it has a spiritual resonance with people living in the network era.

At the same time, CJ Zhang's sculpture series "Living Endless" was exhibited in the show, which is also a new breakthrough for the artist in his own CJ creation language. Sculptures with non-physical language allow non-linear elements to flow out of the non-physical realm in the three-dimensional space.