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Lasting Impressions

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5 March - 1 May 2020
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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Zhang Xiaogang, Bloodline: Big Family, 2006

Zhang Xiaogang CHN, b. 1958

Bloodline: Big Family, 2006
Lithograph on paper, framed
Signed by the artist and dated, lower right on recto
124.5 × 145 cm
Edition of 58
© Zhang Xiaogang
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Inspired by family photos from the Cultural Revolution period, as well as the European tradition of surrealism, Zhang Xiaogang’s paintings engage with the notion of identity within the Chinese culture...
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Inspired by family photos from the Cultural Revolution period, as well as the European tradition of surrealism, Zhang Xiaogang’s paintings engage with the notion of identity within the Chinese culture of collectivism. Basing his work around the concept of ‘family’ –immediate, extended, and societal – Xiaogang’s portraits depict an endless genealogy of imagined forebears and progenitors, each unnervingly similar and distinguished by minute difference.

Drawing from the generic quality of formal photo studio poses and greyscale palette, Xiaogang’s figures are nameless and timeless: a series of individual histories represented within the strict confines of formula. The occasional splotches of colour which interrupt his images create aberrant demarcations, reminiscent of birth marks, aged film, social stigma, or a lingering sense of the sitter’s self assertion.

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Provenance

Private Collection
Dellasposa Gallery

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Lasting Impressions, Dellasposa Gallery, London, 5 March - 10 April 2020
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