Boers-Li Gallery Beijing | New York / Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris | London / Holzwarth Publications, Berlin 2019 With texts by He Guiyan, Hans Werner Holzwarth and a conversation between Zhang Wei and Colin Siyuan Chinnery
‘When artists no longer pursue the goal of recreating the illusion experienced by the retina, art will return to the picture plane and take it as the start. According to the American critic Clement Greenberg, defending flatness has become the most important feature of the modernist painting since the mid-to-late 19th century [...]. However, for Zhang Wei, the significance of the two-dimensional plane is that it allows him to express himself with complete freedom. From this perspective, Zhang Wei’s abstraction is not based on Western abstract art, nor does it take the stylization of form as the goal of pursuit. Instead, he seeks to merge the boundaries between form and content, or to consider form as content [...].’ He Guiyan, ‘Landscape into abstraction: on Zhang Wei’s painting’, in Zhang Wei, exh. cat., Boers-Li Gallery Beijing | New York / Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris | London and Holzwarth Publications, Berlin 2019, p. 16
Publisher: Boers-Li Gallery Beijing | New York / Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris | London and Holzwarth Publications, Berlin Publication date: 2019 Binding: Hardcover Dimensions: 30.5 x 24.5 x 3 cm Pages: 226 ISBN: 978-3-947127-19-1
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Stiftung zur Förderung zeitgenössischer Kunst in Weidingen, Weidingen
2019
Exhibition page on maxhetzler.com
€ 45.00