Text (CN) by Meng xi From April 12 through to May 31, 2024, artist Zhao Yiqian’s latest solo exhibition “The Garden of Eden” is held at Shixiang Space in Beijing. With Xu Ziyi as the curator, this exhibition focuses on the latest exploration of Zhao since 2023, including the two series “ADAM” and “EVE”. As shown in the Chinese tit...

Curator Xu Ziyi The Chinese title of the exhibition “ 一电元 ” sounds like "the Garden of Eden" in Chinese (Yi Dian Yuan), aiming to highlight a sense of wordplay, pointing to the recent explorations by the artist Zhao Yiqian into "technology" and "digital preservation". Through the "language game" of Chinese and English, it echoes the “...

Zhu TongFable, a straw that shows which way the wind blows, and a path through which wisdom is acquired. With the theme of ‘Fable’, Zhao Yiqian’s solo exhibition aims to invent the appropriation and falsification of historic significance, classical art and images of pop icons, and to assemble them into a new compilation of fables. They,...

Leo Gallery: Originally your work is mainly based on painting. Now the "New Idol" series include not only painting, but also manuscripts, installations, sculptures, industrial metal materials, neon installations, etc. Why do you create with such a variety of materials?Zhao Yiqian: Manuscript is the beginning of the whole series. It records the...

One is the spiritual belief from BC.One is the cartoon image of the current consumption era.Zhao Yiqian's new art creation series misappropriates and superimposes these two symbols from different times to create a new "Idol" - new idol."Idol" was originally an image created by man-made gods to repose mankind's difficult desires and una...

Zhao Yiqian's works are based on the old black-and-white photos in the 1960s and 1970s. Some scenes in history and some elements in real life, as well as imagination and dreams are mixed and staggered with each other, and finally integrated into a minimalist neoclassicism. The work emphasizes the visual reproduction of memory, and attach...

Deja-vuZhao Yiqian Solo ExhibitionHuang Du, CuratorOver the past decade, the progression of Chinese contemporary painting, like China's social development, has shown clear developments and changes. This is entirely rooted in the influence of globalization, an open information society and China's own cultural logic. The development of Chinese...