Zhang Lei

1980 Born in Hubei Province

2004 Graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Renmin University of China of Fine Arts with a bachelor's degree

Currently works and lives in Beijing

SOLO EXHIBITION

2014  

Sufficiency and Defect - Zhang Lei Solo Exhibition, UP Art Space, Beijing

2013  

Defeat of Vision - Zhang Lei Solo Exhibition, Artist Village Gallery, Beijing

GROUP EXHIBITION

2015 

2015 Art Nova 100, Beijing

Art is Unbounded, On the Art Museum, Beijing

Mobbish - Young Artists Exhibition, Shanghai South Bank Art Museum, Shanghai

Multi - Prism, the Structure and Latitude of the New Abstract, EARC, Beijing

2014  

Reorganization and Deconstruction, UP Art Space, Beijing

New Generation of Abstract Art, Sishang Art Museum, Beijing

2013  

Two People in Group, Wang Yan & Zhang Lei Exhibition, Today Art Gallery,Beijing

Zhang Lei: The "Dowry" series reveals the relationship between ready-made objects and sand paintings. It is not only an exploration of how easel painting should progress in an era of images, but also about how to make thought "real", about the formation of an aesthetic object and the possibility of innovation in practice. If we see the silk's existing pattern as a template, then part of the painting becomes a copy. The opposing state of the two reveals the question of nature and freedom. A copy, to a template, can be described as a negation and criticism of making oneself an object to depict. Outside of it, but still in its category, a copy that does not tend toward "arbitrary" beauty in its form is the "true" essence. Why use old silk quilts as a canvas? - They are dowries. Time, life, sex, love, death all took place beneath them. Besides revealing that, I don't feel I need to do anything else.