Tong Gallery+Projects is honoured to announce that it will participate in ART SHENZHEN Art Shenzhen from September 12 to 15, 2019, presenting the works of the following six artists:

Lan Zhaoxing (b.1977 , China)

Zhang Xinyi (b. 1987, China)

Liu Zhixing (b. 1991, China)

Pan Wangshu (b. 1987, China)

Youada (b. 1987, China)

Tong Kunniao (b. 1990, China)

We look forward to your time to visit booth C05.☕️

Yoada was born in Fujian in 1987 and graduated from the China Academy of Fine Arts in 2011. At present, she lives in Hangzhou. 

Familiar images in daily life, nostalgic animated characters, fashion brands, video games or TV programs are all elements that often appear in Yoada's paintings and installations. He is interested in placing himself in youth, streets and other cultures in the form of forced co-branded.

Tong Kunniao now works and lives in Beijing, China in 1990. Born in Changsha, China in 2015. Graduated from the Sculpture Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China.

 "I use all the rejected headphone cables. I collect and collect them all them into knots, but the headphones always feel that there is a secret sound of the past. It is a very private channel and a very personal rhythm. The chaotic and beautiful voice passes through the body of each headphone, leaving cold and sour copper wire in the headphone line. The combed and arranged headphones seem to finally let me see a trace of calm harmony."

 - Tong Kunniao

Liu Zhixing was born in 1991 in Yunnan, China. She graduated from the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in 2003 and obtained the National Modelling Diploma of the Nantes Academy of Fine Arts in 2017. She was awarded by the jury. Since 2017, she has studied at the Nantes Academy of Fine Arts (Master's degree) in France. 

"The animals, characters or plants in my paintings are like one by one. The adjective and the carrier of certain feelings. For example, there is no flowing air staying in the treetops at night; the state of a person when it is empty; the lustre reflected when the light falls on the hair; the state of people who are naive like animals, forgotten and waiting to be rediscovered, etc. These objects are some metaphors. They are like a switch in daily details, mobilising my feelings, and conveying an indefinable and undefined state between ambiguity and clarity in a poetic, quiet and unobtentated way. 

Pearl is like those abstract feelings. It has a hazy lustre and a virtual and real projection of the surrounding environment. It can't be seen and can't be understood. It is so weird that it appears in a seemingly perfect position, just like breathing and breathing." 

- Liu Zhixing

Pan Wangshu was born in Hangzhou in 1987 and graduated with a master's degree from the China Academy of Fine Arts in 2013. He is now living in Hangzhou in the Department of Visual Communication Design. 

My current creative theme mainly focusses on the analysis and research of relationships. Explore the relationship with the people around you from the cognition of the relationship, and the relationship between other people. The following works will talk more about a complex relationship between parents and children, such as the cage of the native family. The big framework is a community, and these are the networks of relationships between families, parents and friends that exist in it. This kind of network is very common in everyone's relationship, very close and worth thinking about. This forms the core of this community culture. In the form of creation, combined with the collection of amateur characters to recreate, the image source of the community is closer to the absurd reality." 

- Pan Wangshu

Zhang Xinyi was born in Jinan, Hangzhou, Shandong Province in 1987. In 2019, Karlsruhe Institute of Art and Design (HfG), Germany. Exchange and study. In 2017, he studied for a doctorate from the Central Academy of Fine Arts. He studied with Professor Xu Bing. In 2017, he graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts. He graduated from the School of Experimental Arts. In 2010, he graduated from the Department of Stage Art of the Central Academy of Drama with a bachelor's degree and now lives in Beijing. 

Zhang Xinyi felt that the visual efficiency preceded the text and carried out a series of meticulous experiments. Traditional painter. The creative logic begins when the image first achieves the similarity, and then postpones the change of the image. Zhang Xinyi's working method unfolds from the opposite direction: she first chooses the highest-ranked "classic painting" image on the Internet, and then constantly simplifies, removes the details, light and expressions of brush strokes by using basic lines to the original image, and finally leaving only the plot, lines and artificial colours. Although Mona Lisa's smile disappeared, the image continued to stimulate the audience's emotions. No matter how simple the image is, it is not a simple reality. The image returns to the most basic institutional relationship, and the relationship between various visual elements and functions is still clear, thus maintaining the self-discipline of the image. Subsequently, this system not only built the image ability, but also participated as part of the audience's reaction.

Lan Zhaoxing studied sculpture in the School of Fine Arts of Shanxi University from 1997 to 2001. After graduation, he joined the army. He successively worked in a closed mountain training institution and a grassroots team on the edge of a county-level city, and was engaged in political work for nearly ten years. From 2006 to 2008, he studied in the oil painting postgraduate class of Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts for two years. In 2011, he left the army at the battalion level, and since then he has basically engaged in independent art creation. In 2017, she held her first solo exhibition "Wildfire" at Tong Gallery+Projects (Beijing). In 2019, the first exhibition "Lan Zhao Xing and Yang Renqian: In the Mountains" was held in New York at the No Gallery (New York). 

"I like everything related to modelling. Of course, sculpture is no exception. In recent years, I have been thinking and trying to find a suitable material and expression method. I make round carvings and reliefs with wood. Although it is a very shallow relief, it is still different from pure painting. It has a greater relationship with space and is also more physical. , extract something more direct. In the process of creating subtraction, I feel that it is full of religious sense, just like the non-stop wiring in addition. Subtraction is to remove what is not needed, and addition is to increase what is needed. The result is the same. The word "shape" has become a real thing, and it is also more important. At the same time, the creative materials of the relief also satisfy some things I have been pursuing, such as the places in the murals that fascinated me. I use sandpaper as a pen to draw a line on the board, and the colour that can be controlled is little by little precipitated and not so bright, as if it has been a long time and I have reached a fit."

- Lan Zhaoxing