Tianjun Zhang

Tianjun Zhang

张天军

Tianjun Zhang is a contemporary artist based in Shanghai, China. Usually painting on canvases, Zhang has a lasting and passionate interest in classical Chinese landscapes. Employing various techniques, the artist derives inspirations from the past and traditions, yet continues to innovate and explore the unknowns of the future.

张天军是一位生活在中国上海的艺术家。尽管作品大多是以布面为介质,张天军对中国传统山水画有持久的兴趣和研究。他从古代文化中汲取灵感,与作品一同成长,并不断尝试及创新各类现代技法,以探索未来山水的可能性。

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Tianjun Zhang's series of solo exhibition, Fountain of Youth, have received great success in Chengdu, Shanghai and Beijing. The artist is the youngest artist who joined the "Neo-Moroism" project at Tokyo Gallery+BTAP. He is also the second youngest artist to hold a solo exhibition at the Aurora Museum in Shanghai. Zhang's works are currently in the collections of The museum of China Academy of Art, Hangzhou; Yuz Museum, Shanghai; Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai; Poly Art Space, Hong Kong; amongst other predominant private collections around the world.

张天军的系列个展“青春之泉”在成都、上海和北京都获得了巨大的成功。他不仅是加入东京画廊+BTAP的“新朦胧主义”最年轻的艺术家,也是继艺术家郝量后在上海震旦博物馆举办个展的第二为八零后艺术家。张天军的作品现收藏于杭州中国美术学院美术馆;上海余德耀美术馆;上海多伦现代美术馆;保利香港艺术空间;以及世界各地重要私人收藏中。

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In Tianjun Zhang's latest work, he focuses on the act of creation itself. He immerses himself in constant sanding, smudging and tracing of the canvases, exploring the unknown territories outside the common aesthetic practicies. In an era where the concepts of concrete and abstract have been repeatedly discussed and compared, Zhang consciously elaves traces and clues of interlacing brush strokes on his canvases, depicting a time and space that extends beyond earthly perceptions. Interestingly, whenever the artist saves the imgaes of his works to the album on his phone, they are automatically classified as "skies", then uploaded to the cloud. In today's world where data is efficiently classifies by algorithm, Zhang's artistic perspective might as well be uploaded to the cloud, making him a creator of the skies.

张天军的最新作品关注绘画创作的本质,他沉浸在手工的打磨和不断涂抹的痕迹中,探索那些不在常见审美范围内的未知领域。在具象和抽象概念与观念表达已经被反复使用过的时代,张天军有意或无意地使用交织的笔触在画布上留下痕迹和线索,描绘出不同于我们日常经验的时空画面。有趣的是,当艺术家将作品照片保存至手机相册时,手机会自动将其智能分类为“天空”并上传到云端。在如今各类数据被算法快速归类时代,张天军的艺术视角正如另一种“云端”,成为了“天空”的创作者。

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