《负片》张英楠个展

Soka Art is pleased to announce the artist Zhang Yingnan will present a new solo exhibition " Film" at Soka Art Beijing on June 18, 2022. This solo exhibition is Zhang Yingnan's third solo exhibition at Soka Art. Film is one of the relatively "backward" films in the era of comprehensive digitalization. After shooting, the black and white of the image are reversed, and the red and green are interchanged. The normal color can only appear by rubbing. This projection imaging method is like a chemical art, which requires washing, printing, placing, dark room special effects, black and white colouring, repairing, etc. This rigorous imaging process, just like Zhang Yingnan's depiction of the current state of mind on the canvas, develops a rational, restrained, and lonely process.

画面中的寂静之境，窗户外的幽僻之处，穹顶之下的光，都成了艺术家记忆的载体，凝聚了作品中秩序的力量。张英楠曾形容绘画为自我精神上的避难所，是一个可以偶尔与现实保持一定距离的空间。他会通过绘画作为媒介，以空间的框架为结构去表达自我意识。因此，在他的作品中，会有种极强的疏离感，稳定，理性、冷静、克制。在此次的张英楠个展中，艺术家把多维度的空间与情感记忆投射在他的作品上，逐渐拼合成内心最真实的感受，并唤起观众的内在情感与潜意识。

The stillness in the picture, the secluded place outside the window, and the light under the dome have become the carrier of the artist's memory, condensing the power of order in the work. Zhang Yingnan once described the painting as a spiritual refuge, a space where one can occasionally maintain a certain distance from reality. Use painting as a medium to express the framework of space as the structure. Therefore, in his works, there is a strong sense of alienation, which is stable, rational, calm and restrained. In Zhang Yingnan's solo exhibition Film, the artist projects multi-dimensional spatial and emotional memories on his works, gradually piecing together the most authentic feelings in his heart, and arousing the audience's inner emotions and subconsciousness.

Zhang Yingnan has been interested in art since childhood. In the early days, he believed that art was a way of catharsis in order to get rid of some restraints, to pursue real freedom and to stretch one's personality. However, the influence of Surrealism in the later period subverted the cognition of art and vision. The mapping of color gamut, proportion, and contrasting colors to the psychology has become Zhang Yingnan's method of exploring himself and the world, He has also created the artist's signature personal artistic style. In this exhibition, Zhang Yingnan uses surrealism and landscape painting methods to reflect the artist's state of mind about the contemporary environment and his true inner self: the alienation of people, the longing and unease about the future, these contemporary social issues His mental state is presented in this exhibition in a philosophical way. The exhibition will start from June 18 to July 17, 2022.