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Works by Zhou Jin Hua

Vernissage: 26 May 2005,   6:30pm - 8:30pm
Exhibition Continues: 27 May 2005 - 15 June 2005

Main Gallery, 21 - 31 Old Bailey Street, Central, Hong Kong

Back by popular demand, Schoeni Art Gallery is delighted to present our first solo exhibition of 20 works by Zhou Jin Hua. Zhou Jin Hua was born in 1978 and graduated from the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in China.

Zhou Jin Hua's unique style juxtaposes the avant-garde and the experimental, and his paintings communicate the fragility and vulnerability of our notional existence. Recalling Giacometti's sculptured spindly personages, Zhou Jin Hua's paintings are created out of an aerial transposition of people and their personas. Commenting with wit on the nature of the urban environment, the sterility of his personages is increased by the distance from which they are presented. Zhou Jin Hua's artistic voice crystallizes an existentialist and surrealist expression of the ironic loneliness inherent in an individual within a mass. Having grown up and trained in Sichuan, China, Zhou Jin Hua's style is very much informed by his interests in nature and astronomy. His stylistic representation of human beings as "small particles in this enormous universe" compounds a complex understanding of the individual within a collective. In a way, Zhou Jin Hua's people maintain independence though their irregularly drawn shadows that point in wayward directions unrelated to the temporal relationship of light and physics.

By emphasizing the vertical and linear form of his personages, a mixture of perceptions accentuates the backsplash of colour in Zhou Jin Hua's works - form is lent to transient sensation and experience, which encourages us to heighten our own perspective of the Self within a greater context. Zhou Jin Hua's tone is somewhat reticent and paced, akin to the movement of his elongated, but miniature, figures. Zhou Jin Hua invokes a precise and stark figurative portrayal of mankind as insignificant and "tiny as insects" in his striking and attenuated scrawny figures. Ultimately, a comment is imparted through his acutely self-conscious portrayal of the androgynous human figures that seem to travel between an abstracted form of surrealism and realism.

Written by Alexandra Hamlyn