hao Gang was born in Beijing in 1961 and grew up during the Cultural Revolution. In the late 70’s and early 80’s, Zhao Gang took part in the Stars collective and had his first exhibitions with the group. Today, the Stars remain the most well-known group of independent artists in post-Mao China. In 1983 Zhao Gang left the country and went to Europe to study art before he settled in New York for 20 years. In his creations, Zhao Gang uses his memories of this period of history as a prism with which to view his own country from the perspective of an outsider. Wedding scenes, portraits, as well as Cultural Revolution inspired paintings are all a little reminder given by the artist to his audience of a past frame of mind and a previous social spirit that is painted with lightness and humour in a contemporary perspective.
The balance of the works is often broken by the artist who adds Chinese characters on the picture, blurs and masks the faces he just painted.
As a famous Chinese artist abroad Zhao Gang has a large influence within the art world, he has participated in many important exhibitions in New York, Europe and Hong Kong, and his works are part of international collections. |
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刚1961年出生在北京，十年文化大革命及其后的若干年贯穿了他的青少年时期，上世纪七十年代末至八十年代初期赵刚是“星星画会”最年轻的成员并与伙伴们共同参加了他人生的第一次展览。在今天， “星星” 仍然是非常著名的中国第一个独立艺术团体。赵刚 1983离开祖国到欧洲学习绘画，之后到纽约生活了二十年。在他的作品中，赵刚用他的记忆作为一个多棱镜映射着中国。表现婚礼场景、过去时代的肖像、文革图象的作品是艺术家以当代观念的方式轻松幽默地向观者呈现的关于过去那个时代的精神状态和社会特质。作品的平衡被后来加上的中国字，污点和被抹掉的人面所破坏。
赵刚是在欧美获得最广泛影响的华人艺术家之一，在纽约，欧洲和香港都参加过很多重要的展览，有着骄人的国际收藏记录。 |
