Hu Zeqian

Statement

Hu Zeqian is currently devoted to researching more possibilities for images in contemporary painting experiments and seeking to create new connections between them and the emotional appeals of individuals or collectives in the present. The artist uses various painting media to recombine randomly extracted images onto imagined natural landscapes, in order to establish a new cultural. At the same time, the artist’s creation also reflects on the inner self, attempting to grasp the eternal sense of freedom in the moment of life while exploring the intense game between nature and humanity.

GlogauAIR Project

When a part of history in the original image is on the same plane as the fictional natural scene dominated by personal desires, a “new world” of self, composed of fiction and reality, has emerged. The process of creation is the explosive release of the ambition to explore the “new world” and the struggle between personal desires and natural laws. It is also an infinite extension beyond the boundaries of things. When I transcribe physical photographic images that contain historical culture as line patterns on a false natural landscape background with industrial colors. People’s definition and interpretation of new things have more possibilities and unpredictability. The main project for residency is about I plan continue create new works on canvas and paper as part of my on-going “Emissary” series.“Emissary”, a name/term I coined in 2020, by discussing the game between human and nature, it aims to motivate me to create a new symbol of culture from the combination of white linear images on false natural landscape background.

Drawing and New media

CV Summary

Solo Exhibitions

• 2023 EMISSARY. Mouart Spac3, Beijingi, China (Online show)
• 2021 EMISSARY. Blank Gallery, Shanghai, China
• EMISSARY. Ultramontane Museum, Hangzhou, China

Art Fairs

• 2023 Beijing Contemporary Art Expo-Mouart Space, Booth: B7\F9, Beijing, China

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