開幕時間：2008年1月3日，下午六至八時（藝術(shù)家將出席開幕式）

展覽時間：2008年1月3日——1月13日

展覽地點：香港藝術(shù)中心包氏畫廊五樓

開放時間：上午十時至下午八時

電話：852-2526-9019

網(wǎng)址：http://www.hanart.com

??????? 趙剛于1961年出生，上小學(xué)時正值文化大革命的爆發(fā)，文革時期的樣板戲，為政治宣傳服務(wù)的電影，包括課本，連環(huán)畫等有著明顯意識形態(tài)烙印的讀物，都構(gòu)成了藝術(shù)家成長過程的主要圖像資源。

??????? 趙剛的青春期在70年代壓抑的社會環(huán)境中渡過，直至到長大成人的坎坷經(jīng)歷之后，好奇心和玩笑都來自一種灑脫的趣味和隨意的繪畫方式，舊的、刻板的價值觀已經(jīng)轟然倒下。藝術(shù)家通過對所謂的英雄，樣板，政治的歷史進(jìn)行寓言式的虛構(gòu)和夸張，揭示荒誕制造者和承受者雙方的荒謬。作品中飽含著明顯的荒誕意識，荒誕與自由并立，從荒誕中釋放出來的是來自人的靈魂深處的另一種人性自由與解放的要求，在荒誕的背后透露了他對不合理現(xiàn)實存在的反抗和對一種新的，更高的理想追求曾參與的重要展覽包括“星星”（北京，1979），“星星十年”（巴黎，1989），“橫濱國際三年展”（橫濱，2005），“中國當(dāng)代藝術(shù)”（維吉尼亞當(dāng)代藝術(shù)館，2006），“趙剛最近作品” （何香凝美術(shù)館，2006）。

Paintings by Gang Zhao

3rd January to 13th January, 2008

Opening: 3rd January, 6: 30 – 8: 00 pm

5/F Pao Galleries, Hong Kong arts Centre, Hong Kong.

10: 00 am to 8: 00 pm

Free Admission

Inquiry: www.hanart.com

Gang Zhao, was born in 1961, the Cultural Revolution broke out when he was still in elementary school.

The eight standardized revolutionary plays, the movies filled with political propaganda, the systematic textbooks, were then widely disseminated and became Zhao’s primary visual resource throughout his upbringing.

Zhao reached adolescence in the 1970s, secretly experiencing his first sexual arousal when watching the “Red Women Army” ballet performance, he survived the many challenges in life by personalizing and demystifying those who held power. Zhao’s curious and ludicrous representations come from a method of loose, enticing and unconscious painting style.

As time past, the artist’s old and rigidly formal value system has been replaced with lustful abruption, physical pleasure, seriousness, and absurdity. Zhao’s unconventional exaggeration and counter-offensive to certain political models, social orders, bureaucratic systems and conformist thinking reinforce his notion of absurdity as political tool. Through absurdity, the artist reveals his rebellion against an unreasonable reality; it becomes a quest for a more desirable, admirable and brand new ideal. In Zhao’s works, there is a force of creative freedom, combined with a carefree attitude, and an acquired playful satire that makes them seem particularly flirtatious, humorous and personalZhao participated in various important art exhibitions including: “The Star” (1979, 1980, Beijing), “The Stars: 10 Years” (Paris, 1989), “Yokohama Triennial” (Yokohama, 2005), “The Face of Contemporary Art in China” (Virginia, 2006), “Gang Zhao’s Most Recent Works” (He Xiangning Museum, 2006).

For more information about the exhibition, please contact us at 852-2526-9019.