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Zhang Enli: Container


Using the outside world as a mirror, Shanghai-based painter Zhang Enli documents the more prosaic aspects of contemporary life in his work. In the paintings collected in 'Container', Zhang depicts the familiar, often overlooked everyday objects of his immediate surroundings, through them reflecting his experiences of contemporary China, from the provincial town of Jilin to the Shanghai megalopolis. Alongside numerous illustrations, an essay by art historian Philippe Pirotte illuminates and contextualizes Zhang’s work.

Language

English

Publisher

Hauser & Wirth Publishers / Steidl

Composition

Hardcover

Contributors

Michaela Unterdörfer (ed.), Philippe Pirotte

Pages

112 pages

Size

22 x 28 cm

ISBN

9783865217370

Publication Date

Oct-08

The Artist

ZHANG ENLI

Using the outside world as a mirror, Zhang Enli documents the more prosaic aspects of contemporary life. He regularly works with everyday objects that he is instinctively drawn to, for example a piece of string, a hose, or even a marble ball from the floor of his studio. Zhang Enli often magnifies his subjects until a specific fragment of a scene is depicted, as if enlarged through the viewfinder of a camera. This technique is especially present in recent abstract works such as ‘The Garden’, 2017.

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