15/01/2010 to 27/02/2010

HAUSER & WIRTH LONDON

196A PICCADILLY LONDON W1J 9DY

This is Zhang Enli’s first solo exhibition in London. Zhang Enli has created a new series of works that continue to invest life into the most common of signifiers from details of trees and lace curtains to bare mattresses and rubber tubing. Imbuing his subjects with human relevance, he has said ‘Ideal with reality in order to express something that goes beyond reality’ and as such he draws on the viewer’s desires for the most simple aspects of existence. Painting with thin washes of pigment, which often leave traces of turpentine dripping down the canvas, he achieves a sophistication and richness that
balances the apparent simplicity of his technique and subject matter.

Image;
Sky 2009, Oil on canvas
260cm * 200cm / 99 * 79 in