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Yunyao Zhang, Chinese Artist, Contemporary Art, Painting, Mahssa Talai, Art Advisor, Paris

Yunyao Zhang

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About

Yunyao Zhang is a Chinese artist living and working in Paris. 

Yunyao Zhang belongs to the new generation of Chinese artists and the artistic renaissance of Shanghai scene. Their outlooks are international. Neither political tensions nor social issues are part of their centers of interest. Zhang is initially a meticulous and talented draftsman. Attracted by the dramatic sense of the graphite, his technicity and intensity, he learns drawing  in a meticulous manner to create depths, textures, and tons. His figurative and hyperrealist compositions, with an extraordinary precision and impressive proportion, are a signature as well as the depictions of classical, mythological and religious scenes. Their beauty, which have been immortalized by the old masters, continue to inspire him. Yunyao Zhang has been exhibited by Emmanuel Perrotin in 2017 and collected by Francois Pinault in 2020.

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Yunyao Zhang, Chinese Artist, Contemporary Art, Painting, Mahssa Talai, Art Advisor, Paris

The Medusa Series
2014 - 2023

Medusa is the emb
lematic series of Yunyao Zhang. Fascinated by old masters as well as representations of classical, mythological and religious scenes, Medusa or Gorgon is a recurrent and striking image in his practice. This legendary character from Greek mythology is one of the primordial preolympian deities. Raped by Poseidon in a temple dedicated to Athena, she is punished by the same goddess who transforms her into a Gorgon. The three Gorgons are female creatures, fantastic and malefic, with hair made of snakes that can petrify in stone all those who cross their glance. They emit a terrifying and petrifying noise, a sharp screaming, inhumain, like the complaint that the dead emit from beyond the grave. They represent the fear in front of the death embodied by a fantasized feminine omnipotence. The Medusa is the most famous of the three Gorgons and the only mortal. She will be decapitated by Perseus whose head will be given to Athena. 

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PUBLIC COLLECTIONS :
 
FONDATION FRANCOIS PINAULT, PARIS
 
RESIDENCIES :
 
2013         ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE, GLENFIDDICH, CANADA
 
EDUCATION :
 
2011         ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS, SHANGHAI NORMAL UNIVERSITY, SHANGHAI
 
SOLO SHOWS :
 
2020         YUNYAO ZHANG, GALERIE MARGUO, PARIS
2019         YUNYAO ZHANG, PALACE OF EXTASY, QIAO SPACE, SHANGHAI
2017         YUNYAO ZHANG, SKIN GESTURE BODY, DON GALLERY, SHANGHAI
2017         YUNYAO ZHANG, NEC SPE NEC METU, PERROTIN GALLERY, HONG KONG
2015         YUNYAO ZHANG, AFTER EVENSONG, DON GALLERY, SHANGHAI
2013         YUNYAO ZHANG, AFTER EVENSONG, DON GALLERY, SHANGHAI
2013         YUNYAO ZHANG, TOUCH POINT, 01100001 GALLERY, BEIJING
2013         YUNYAO ZHANG, MIRAGE, DON GALLERY, SHANGHAI
2013         YUNYAO ZHANG, MY DARK LIFE, A STORY OF A KING AND HIS CLOWN, ART STAGE, SINGAPORE
2011         YUNYAO ZHANG, PARADBOX, DON GALLERY, SHANGHAI
 
GROUP SHOWS :
 
2023         UNDER THE GAZE OF MEDUSE, FINE ART MUSEUM, CAEN
2021         LOUIS 200, THE EXHIBITION, GALERIE LOUIS VUITTON, PARIS
2021         OFF ROAD II, ZENO X GALLERY, ANTWERP
2021         POPERINGE, WATOU ARTS FESTIVAL, WATOU
2021         IDOLES, L’ART DES CYCLADES ET DE L’ANATOLIE A L’AGE DE BRONZE, MUSEE FENAILLE, RODEZ
2021         PRESENTATION OF MARGUO ARTISTS, GALERIE MARGUO, PARIS
2020         SUMMER EXHIBITION, ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS, LONDON
2019         EPITHET PORTRAYED, DON GALLERY, SHANGHAI
2019         SWALLOW IT, DON GALLERY, SHANGHAI
2018         STEADFASTLY RAISE THE STANDARDS IN NONPRODUCTIVE CONSTRUCTION, DON GALLERY, SHANGHAI
2017         SHANGHAI DANDY, DON GALLERY, SHANGHAI
2016         WE, CHI K11 ART MUSEUM, SHANGHAI
2015         OBSERVER - CREATOR, CAFA, BEIJING
2015         MOMENTS, DON GALLERY, SHANGHAI
2014         PRESENT, ING RECITAL LOUDER THAN PAINT, SHANGHAI GALLERY OF ART, SHANGHAI
2013         ABUSE, DON GALLERY, SHANGHAI
2013         PLUS FOLLOW, MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, SHANGHAI
2013         POLYPHONY, 21 KINDS OF STATE, ART MUSEUM OF NANJING UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS, NANJING
2012         OUTDATED, DON GALLERY, SHANGHAI
2012         THE HALO EFFECT, V ART CENTER, SHANGHAI
2011         WE ARE HERE, DON GALLERY, SHANGHAI
2011         DAILY, QINGHE CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM, NANJING
2011         SH CONTEMPORARY, SHANGHAI EXHIBITION CENTER, SHANGHAI
2011         IF, DON GALLERY, SHANGHAI
2011         PLUS FOLLOW, MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, SHANGHAI
2011         XINZHUANG, THE STORIES OF FIVE YOUTHS, DON GALLERY, SHANGHAI
2011         CONTEMPORARY CHINA, WANDESFORD QUAY GALLERY, CORK
2010         CHORUS, DON GALLERY, SHANGHAI
2009         4 BERLINER TREFFEN 8 CHINESEN, NOTHING ART, BERLIN
2008         SUMMER AUCTION OF CHINESE WORKS OF ART, EASTLINK GALLERY, SHANGHAI
2007         AUTUMN AUCTION OF CHINESE WORKS OF ART, EASTLINK GALLERY, SHANGHAI
2007         HOMEWORLD, XIANGJIANG GALLERY, SHANGHAI
2006         ME US, WU XING GALLERY, SHANGHAI

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