Pearl Lam Galleries is delighted to announce the upcoming exhibition, Evolution of Space, marking Zhu Peihong’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. This exhibition employs a case study approach to explore Zhu’s latest artistic innovations, including his easel paintings, sculptures, and new media moving image works. In the interaction between materials and ideas, the ongoing practices integrated by the artist allow the work itself to generate complex spatial forms in a disciplined and spontaneous manner as it evolves through diffusion and response. As the artist says, “In the convergence of the virtual and the real, I perceive and capture the flow of consciousness, exploring the infinite boundaries of space and consciousness.”
Zhu Peihong’s paintings, while appearing abstract in form, differ from Western abstract painting. Zhu’s painting seeks to restore and reveal the ways in which sensory consciousness exists in the virtual and real worlds. The exhibited series My Space, Growing, Material, and Void Perception are created with acrylic paint and supplemented by ink fine liners, acrylic pens, and oil paint on canvas.
The My Space and Growing series transform the artist’s memories and conscious perceptions into a unique abstract painterly language. The former focuses on the process of inward observation and introspection, emphasising the inherent logic of colour blocks and hues on the canvas. The latter explores the dynamic dialogue between the artist’s inner space and the external world, translating this interaction into a visual painting language characterised by distinct network-like linear structures and layers of stacked colour blocks. The Material and Void Perception series are the artist’s investigation of three-dimensional space using new media technology and incorporate continual gestures in the process of interaction with perception. In the Material series, the artist pours black acrylic paint onto the canvas, allowing it to drip down with gravity. This creates a mutual pulling force with the other colours on the canvas until a delicate sense of balance is reached. In the Space Perception series, the artist imports real-life artworks into a virtual space through data. This process causes two-dimensional paintings to develop a three-dimensional volume. When these digital versions are brought back to the canvas, the three-dimensional form is absorbed back into the two-dimensional plane.
7 October – 18 November, 2024