张穗扬的博克http://duchamptop.spaces.live.com 开幕时间：2007年5月26日19：30开始 展览时间：2007年5月26日至2007年6月8日15：00-23：00 地点：顶层画廊，南京东路479号先施大厦12层(画廊区域) 电话：021-6352 0256 www.topart.cn “The space of mystery” Zhang Suiyang Photographs exhibition
Introduction Zhang Suiyang Born in Shanghai, bred in Guangzhou, this is the first time I came back to my birth place to hold an exhibition. It was a very significant experience in my life. The works on show are those that I created over the past 2 years. I have been working as a freelance artist and professional photographer for eleven years since I graduated from the oil painting department of the Guangzhou Institute of Fine Arts. This dual focus makes me different from other professional artists because I’m not only in the arts area but also in the commercial zone. I feel the same pressures of life as they do, I also need to struggle. Therefore, my works show my impressions towards life and society. I think my ideas for photography and painting are very similar. I take a photo shoot as if I am painting a picture. Using cartoons is my preferred style of expression. Cartoons are one of the most popular tools of the new generation. Personally, I think that an artist should be very sensitive to the surroundings, and a successful work should show the character of the time period.
Opening Reception: 19：30pm, 26th May, 2007 Exhibition Period: 26t hMay---8th June，2007,3pm-11pm Venue: The Room With a View gallery, 12th Floor, No. 479 Nanjing Road East, Shanghai Tel: 021- 6352 0256 www.topart.cn
Ideal photographs of Zhang SuiYang Deng JianJin 19 - 4-2007 From Zhang SuiYang’s works, we can see that the politic, society, pop and fashion is what he focus on. such as in those works--- <the city rhapsody of destroyer>, <the super mechanical soldier landed on the devil world>, <still the same?>…he tempted to break the traditional appreciation of beauty，instead, lots of film making factors were used in his works. Montage for example, thus made the different characters fit together, made the general appearance of the picture more integral, more fixable . From his works, we can feel not only the anxiety that the internet and cartoon brought to us, but also the mystery, absurdity and trepidation like the end of the world. As the photographs of new medium arts, it is quite a value. We should not just to focus on our work, but we need to be more responsible to ourselves, to the society problem, and care more about our life as well as the surroundings like Zhang SuiYang do. Therefore，I’m expecting more and more surprising work would be created by Zhang SuiYang.
Expression of my creation Zhang Sui Yang
This is the age of high technology filled with computers, games and cartoons. The characters in the cartoon films, games and caricature books are the idols of the new generation. They provide a virtual space to imagine. As a man in the new age, I can feel the deep effects on China and the world. Art is the reflection of times and society, this is an essential element of my creation. The phenomena and problems that the new age has created have impacted me in various ways, and this is what I want to show through my works. The element of the cartoon, game and caricature is a major focus in my works. Sometimes it is the leading role, but sometimes it is just a denotation to express how I feel and what I think. Sometimes it can be absurd, ridiculous or humorous, but most of the time it’s serious. Because I believe that being an artist should have a kind of mission in the world. This is the age of images; we view a great number of pictures everyday, therefore, people’s requirements for the quality of pictures is getting stricter. The strange, exaggerated and exciting vision would easily attract attentions. However, the images cannot just serve the theme idea of the artist. If it is created solely for visual impact with no responsibility towards society, to life, then this kind of arts will be considered of worthless. It is merely an image. This is the difference between fine arts and art. Commercial advertisement have a drastic effect upon consumer consumption, life, and emotion. It is one of the essential part of life. It seems our perceptions of what is fashionable, what is popular, what is worthy, what success is, what a high quality lifestyle is, what is good, what is bad or what kinds of house we should buy are defined by reading commercial advertisements. As time passes, what commercial advertisement portray has become the standard of value. These thoughts are our thoughts. But is that true? I often question my values. The answer is not easy to find. Maybe we hold no importance in society. What I really want to say is that independent thought and creative thinking are now seriously lacking. I want to express something like this series of work ---“it decorates our body! But what decorate our heart?” I feel like we are being controlled by advertisements at ever moment. They controls all the choices we make. It seems like we are living in the cage, we feel enslaved, stressed and anxious, we try to struggle, we scream, but we are helpless. In the series ---“finally get a chance to kill you”, I want to show my concern to the situations which happen in the surroundings. To most of the social phenomena, I feel anger, but most of the time I can just swallow the insult, because there is nothing I can do about it. So through my works, I want to express something that I want to do but can not do in reality! Fortunately this virtual space offer us a place to do things which we want to do but can not do in real life!
