May 28th, 2015 Zhang Dali (b. 1963 Harbin, China) Zhang Dali: Under The Sky (May 16 – Aug 23, 2015). Opening reception: Saturday, May 16th from 2:00 – 8:00 pm. Zhang Dali / 张大力 | Soul of the Wild Grass No.1 | Cyanotype Photogram Mounted on Canvas | 65 x 145 cm | 2009 Pékin Fine Arts (Hong Kong) is pleased to present Zhang Dali’s latest cyanotypes and figurative sculpture on exhibit for the first time in Hong Kong. Zhang Dali, China’s most well known graffiti artist, stopped tagging buildings marked for demolition and construction in 2006. Today, he continues his fascination with the immediacy of the street, using a variety of mediums, including photography, cyanotype, resin and fiberglass life-size body-cast sculpture. In Beijing and throughout Asia, economic reality and government policy work together to push city dwellers away from traditional homes at street level into high- rise concrete apartment blocks. Artists including Beijing-based Zhang Dali record this remarkable transformation, with outrage, concern, helplessness, and finally, wry resignation. Zhang Dali / 张大力 | Square No.1 | Sculptures, Fiberglass and Baking Varnish | 170 x 100 x 85 cm | 2014 Zhang Dali’s practice is research-based, recording his daily encounters with the urban space around his living and working neighborhoods situated on the outskirts of Beijing, and surrounded by vacant lots slated for redevelopment. His aim – whether graffiti or cyanotype - is steadily consistent: immediate contact, unalterable, direct impressions of every day life at street level. Like the original shadow-subjects of the cyanotypes and the full body casts of his sculpture-figures, the works he produces are close to real life: unique, un-reproduce-able, defying current trends of multiplication of original artworks. Zhang Dali / 张大力 | Blue Sky 9 | Cyanotype and Oil on Canvas | 145 x 125 cm | 2014 Zhang Dali’s artworks are in the following public collections: MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York; International Center of Photography, New York; Asia Society, New York; Denver Art Museum, Colorado; 21c Museum, Louisville, Kentucky; Saatchi Gallery, London; Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan; Smart Museum, Chicago; and Nasher Museum at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. Selected solo exhibitions include “Zhang Dali – World’s Shadows”, Ludwisburg Kunstverein, Germany; “A Second History”, MACBA – Museum of Contemporary Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina; and, “From Reality to Extreme Reality” - Zhang Dali Retrospective Research Exhibition, United Museum, Wuhan China. Selected group exhibitions include “Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop”, The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New York; “New Photography 2011”, The Museum Of Modern Art, New York; and, “Speech Matters”, Danish National Pavilion, The 54th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy. For more information, please contact us at [email protected] or tel: (852) 2177 6190. Pékin Fine Arts (Hong Kong) Zhang Dali (b. 1963 Harbin, China) Solo Exhibit: Under The Sky May 16 – Aug 23, 2015 Artwork List May 28, 2015 (1) Artist: Zhang Dali (b. 1963, Harbin, China) Title: Square No.1, 2014 Medium: Sculptures, Fiberglass and Baking Varnish Dimension: 170 x 100 x 85 cm Date: 2014 (2) Artist: Zhang Dali (b. 1963, Harbin, China) Title: Square No.11, 2014 Medium: Sculptures, Fiberglass and Baking Varnish Dimension: 95 x 100 x 140 cm Date: 2014 (3) Artist: Zhang Dali (b. 1963, Harbin, China) Title: Square No.12, 2014 Medium: Sculptures, Fiberglass and Baking Varnish Dimension: 170 x 80 x 80 cm Date: 2014 (4) Artist: Zhang Dali (b. 1963, Harbin, China) Title: Wilderness’s Soul 1 Medium: Cyanotype on Cotton Dimension: 118 x 56 cm Date: 2009 (5) Artist: Zhang Dali (b. 1963, Harbin, China) Title: Wilderness’s soul 2 Medium: Cyanotype on Cotton Dimension: 120 x 40 cm Date: 2009.08.14 (6) Artist: Zhang Dali (b. 1963, Harbin, China) Title: Soul of the Wild Grass No.1 Medium: Cyanotype on Canvas Dimension: 65 x 145 cm Date: 2009.08 (7) Artist: Zhang Dali (b. 1963, Harbin, China) Title: Blue Sky 3 Medium: Cyanotype and Oil on Canvas Dimension: 150 x 103 cm Date: 2014 (8) Artist: Zhang Dali (b. 1963, Harbin, China) Title: Flying Pigeons Medium: Cyanotype on Rice Paper (framed) Dimension: 75 x 68 cm (framed, dimension for the drawing) Date: 2013-9-24 (9) Artist: Zhang Dali (b. 1963, Harbin, China) Title: Blue Sky 19 Medium: Cyanotype and Oil on Canvas Dimension: 140 x 60 cm Date: 2014 (10) Artist: Zhang Dali (b. 1963, Harbin, China) Title: Bamboo 3 Medium: Cyanotype on Rice Paper (framed) Dimension: 135 X 67.7cm (framed, dimension for the drawing) Date: 2013.11.03 (11) Artist: Zhang Dali (b. 1963, Harbin, China) Title: Bamboo 4 Medium: Cyanotype on Rice Paper (framed) Dimension: 136 X 67 cm (framed, dimension for the drawing) Date: 2010.11.03 (12) Artist: Zhang Dali (b. 1963, Harbin, China) Title: Blue Sky 9 Medium: Cyanotype and Oil on Canvas Dimension: 145 x 125 cm Date: 2014 Please note: All prices exclusive of packing/shipping/insurance. For further information, please contact [email protected] or call: (8610) 5127 3220. May 282015 Zhang Dali ( ) CV 1963 Born in Harbin, Heilongjiang, China 1987 Graduated from National Academy of Fine Arts and Design , Beijing, China Now lives and works in Beijing and Bologna, Italy, Solo Exhibits 2015 Under the Sky, Pékin Fine Arts Gallery, Hong Kong, China Zhang Dali – World's Shadows, Ludwisburg Kunstverein, Ludwisburg Germany A Second History, MACBA - Museum of Contemporary Art , Buenos Aires Argentina A Second History, Red Brick Factory Art District, Guangzhou China 2014 A Second History, Singapore ArtScience Museum, Singapore Square, Klein-Sun Fine Arts Gallery, New York, USA Square, K Space, Chengdu, China 2013 Zhang Dali—Second History, Museum of the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Art, Shenyang, China Zhang Dali – A Retrospective, Eli Klein Fine Arts, New York, USA 2012 Zhang Dali, Loft Gallery, Paris, France AK-47, Stern Pissarro Gallery, London, UK Zhang Dali Retrospective, Eli Klein Fine Art, New York, USA Zhang Dali-Permanent Exhibition, Automne Galerie, Bruxelles, Belgium 2011 New Slogan, Eli Klein Fine Art Gallery, New York, USA World’s Shadows, Pékin Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing China Zhang Dali, Adrian David Gallerie, Knokke-Le Zoute, Belgium 2010 The Second History, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China Zhang Dali – Solo Show, 18 Gallery, Shanghai, China Zhang Dali – Extreme Reality, Tank Loft-Chongqing Contemporary Art Center, Chongqing, China Zhang Dali, Gallery Bodson-Emelinckx, Brussels, Belgium 2009 Pervasion, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China Il sogno proibito della nuova Cina, Plazzo Inghilteraa,Turin, Italy The Second History, Space SZ Gallery, Beijing, China 2008 The Road to Freedom, Red Star Gallery, Beijing, China Slogans, Kiang Gallery, Atlanta, USA 2007 Chinese Offspring, Chinese Contemporary Gallery, New York, USA 2006 Zhang DaliA Second History, Walsh Gallery, Chicago, USA 2005 Sublimation, Beijing Commune Gallery, Beijing, China 2004 New Works by Zhang Dali, Chinese Contemporary Gallery, London, UK 2003 AK-47, Galleria Gariboldi, Milan, Italy AK-47, Galleria Il Traghetto, Venice, Italy 2002 Headlines, Chinese Contemporary Gallery, London, UK Beijing’s Face, Base Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 2000 AK-47, The Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China 1999 Dialogue and Demolition, The Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China Dialogue, Chinese Contemporary Gallery, London, UK 1994 Rivoluzione e Violenza, Galleria Studio 5, Bologna, Italy 1993 Zhang Dali: Pitture a Inchiostro, Galleria Studio 5, Bologna, Italy 1989 Ink Wash Painting Exhibition by Zhang Dali, Gallery of the National Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China Group Exhibits 2015 Community Implant Plan, Chengdu Jinjiang Museum, Chengdu, China, Feb 14 to Mar 15 Suddenly Enlightened – Chinese and German Conceptual Art Comparative Research Exhibition, United Museum, Wuhan China, March 13 – Jun 13 2014 Lianzhou Photo Festival Photography in the Post Media Era MIA Singapore Marina Bay Booth D-6 West Says East Says – Chinese Contemporary Art Research Exhibition, United Art Museum, Wuhan, China Phnom Penh Photo Festival, Cambodia Chinese Contemporary Photography Mingsheng Art Museum, Shanghai Aftermath, 21c Museum, Louisville, Kentucky USA De Heus-Zomers Collection of Chinese Contemporary Art, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Holland 2013 Individual Growth-Momentum of Contemporary Art, Tianjin Art Museum, Tianjin, China Voice of the Unseen, Collateral Event at the 55th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Aura and Post Aura, The First Beijing International Photography Biennale, Millennium Museum, Beijing, China Hot Pot: A Taste of Contemporary Chinese Art, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, USA Incarnations, Institute Confucius des Pais de la Loire, Angers, France Fuck Off 2, Groninger Museum, Groningen, Holland Re-Ink, Invitational Exhibition, Hubei Museum of ArtWuhanChina The Nature of Things, Magda Gallery, Shanghai, China Chinese Photography, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Brussels, Belgium One Square Meter – Situation, Linda Gallery, Beijing, China World’s Shadows, Photo Phnom Penh 2013, Royal University of Phnom Penh, Phnom Penh, Cambodia Spectacle Reconstruction, Budapest Art Museum, Budapest, Hungary 2012 Raze, Pékin Fine Arts, Beijing, China Faking It – Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA The Unseen, 4th Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China Body Double: The Figure in Contemporary Sculpture, The Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, USA Omen-2012,