Zhang Jian - TRIUMPH GALLERY

Zhang Jian

Introduction

Exhibitions

Zhang Jian

Early in his career Zhang Jian was inspired by the Impressionists particularly Édouard Manet and the Russian Valentin Serov. Zhang Jian became fascinated with representations of sunlight and outdoor themes, striving to demonstrate introspective, calm and peaceful moments in everyday life. In the early 2000s Zhang Jian began to use photography as a starting point for his paintings and employed techniques of ‘flatness’ and blurred figuration in his work - evocative of the work of Gerhard Richter - that resulted in his Houhai, Chang’an Avenue and Tiananmen series. Public spaces, linked with social history and each carrying special symbolic meaning, became the focus for many of his works. In recent years, his paintings have become more subjective and free - more expressionistic - creating a confusion of reality, dream and abstraction.

Exhibitions

Selected Works

Fairs

Beijing Exhibition Center

2021 JINGART

2021.06.10 - 06.13