Born in 1998 in Xi’an, China, Zhang lives and works in Xi’an, China
Zhang paints the darkest moment of the adventurer—the trance, the impassivity before making a choice. Many of the figures he draws are masculine, human symbols of the adventurer, who is the predecessor of myth. In fact, he is the closest embodiment of myth itself, yet simultaneously a loner, with a powerful body to conceal the trance moments before victory or defeat—a moment when he is neither human, nor god, nor animal.
Zhang enjoys the spirit of adventure, but he doesn’t advocate for it. The other side of his obsession with adventure is the loneliness that accompanies it, a kind of indifference before action.
Willow Art Space 