Zhang Haiying
About Zhang Haiying
i am from beijing,
i live in songzhuang artist village as a painter.wish you like my
paintings.thanks eveyone .my
email:szhzok@hotmail.comwebsite:www.zhanghaiying.comZhang Haiyings
Anti-Vice campaingn
Series is based on Internet photographs of young women caught up in the
Chinese governments efforts to purge the city of prostitution and
pornography.
The highly publicized campaign to eliminate vice and
illegal publications focuses on the apprehension and detention of young
women such as these, who are among the most powerless of the countrys
citizens. Victimized on one hand by gangs and threatened with fines and
prison by authorities on the other, they are often paraded through
streets to face insults and ridicule. Zhang is not attempting to present
a case for the decriminalization of prostitution, but as an artist,
hopes instead to portray their frail humanity and the sympathy their
shame evokes. The series examines the anguish of the purge, from the
crime itself to arrest and detention. Taken as a whole, Anti-Vice
paintings reflect an awkward condition in contemporary Chinese society.
by Colleen stricker Fresh Paint project ,usaZhang Haiying's Anti-Vice
Campaign series takes as its subject the Chinese governments recent
initiatives in eradicating prostitution and pornography. Executed on
monumental scale and in faux social realist style Zhang's paintings use
the devices of propaganda for non-politicised means: his works neither
advocate nor criticise illicit activity, but draw from the associated
issues of power, exclusion, vulnerability, and perception to create
images of emotive discord. Finding his source material on the
internet, Zhang translates photographic images with subtle painterly
manipulations to enhance mass media aesthetics and its conflicting
messaging. His tones dramatic reds over cold greys - allude to both
authoritative iconography and strip club sleaze, while his stylised
figures are made to look strangely hyper-real, like computer generated
avatars, or celebrities overexposed in paparazzi swarms; women
objectified by their equally desirable and degrading portrayal.Zhang
renders these scenes with a master's craftsmanship. Hair, flesh, fabric,
objects are constructed as self-contained elements, their individual
treatment creating a sense of isolation and disunity in the collage
effect. His super-pop sheen is exaggerated through painterly veracity:
camera blurs, print bleeds, and flash bulb glares are faithfully
replicated by brushwork which borders on abstraction. In Series 005 the
night vision video effect is perfectly replicated by impassioned smears
and smudges, simulating photo realism with intuitive spontaneity.Behind
each of these paintings is a complex story: of destitution, desperation,
abuse and entrapment, side effects of economics, migration, and
progress; the human costs of commodity culture.
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