Vernissage :: August 27, 2011, 3 – 5 pm
Exhibition Dates :: August 27 - September 18, 2011

Red Gate is pleased to announce a new exhibition of new works on paper by Zhou Jirong. Zhou is a master print maker who has been an artistic witness of Beijing's urban revolution over the last thirty years. From his early screen prints printed in the eighties to his continued exploration of mix media on special hand-made paper, Zhou has been an acute observer of the city skyline as hutongs alleys metamorphosed into concentric ring roads heralding the complete transformation of rustic neighbourhoods into never ending arrays of office and residential blocks. For this exhibition, Zhou has painted a new body of works on paper that documents the ambiguous Beijing skyline into an artwork of abstract beauty. There is an Eastern sensibility in the works where the architectural silhouettes nestle in a foggy horizon and echo the poetic mist of a Song dynasty landscape. Applying an innovative technique that incorporates silk printing techniques and application of mineral colour pigments, the resulting works on paper are a subtle potpourri of textural and chromatic delights. A semi-hidden urban cityscape is punctunated with vertical forms that hints of construction cranes, distant buildings or lamp posts. The mood is both meditative and melancholic as the viewer is invited to visually unveil a duality of both construction and destruction that echos reality.

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