Zhang Xiaogang - Saturday @ Phillips London Friday, March 14, 2008 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Gallery Artside, Seoul

  • Artist Biography

    Zhang Xiaogang

    Chinese • 1958

    Relying on memory and inspired by family portraits from the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Zhang Xiaogang creates surreal, subtle artworks that explore the notion of identity in relation to the Chinese culture of collectivism. Using a muted, greyscale palette, Xiaogang repeatedly depicts a series of unnervingly similar figures, often dressed in identical Mao suits, to create an endless genealogy of imagined forebears and progenitors. Their somber, melancholy gazes are interrupted only by thin red bloodlines intimating familial links as well as occasional pale splotches of color resembling birthmarks.

    Xiaogang investigates how to express individual histories within the strict confines of a formula. His sitters, while appearing muted and compliant, are given physical exaggerations: oversized heads, tiny hands and long noses. These distortions imply stifled emotions and give a complex psychological dimension to the artist's work.

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Four works: Untitled (from Amnesia and Memory)

2006
Lithograph and screenprint on paper.
Paper size: 56.5 x 75.9 cm. (22 1/4 x 29 7/8 in.) Prints vary in dimension.
Each signed, dated and numbered lower edge. These works are from an edition of 88.

Estimate
£7,000 - 9,000 

Saturday @ Phillips

15 Mar 2008, 10am & 2pm
London