Zhao Gang’s White Night embraces both classical and contemporary notions of painting to explore the relationship between individual identities and cultural conflicts. Since the pandemic, Zhao Gang has created still-life paintings as a commentary and a diary of daily life in Beijing. White Night alludes to Old Master works that idealise commodities as a marker for wealth, status or happiness. The artist enlarges a bottle of wine, a vase of flowers and a bowl of fruit to an unreal scale, in a sense exalting each object.

Zhao Gang’s artistic style is characterised by audacious and almost exaggerated narrative techniques and brushwork. These elements serve not only as a perpetual reaffirmation of his own existence but also as a defiant stance against the prevailing trend of artistic refinement. His works celebrate the unfettered freedom and authenticity inherent in painting.

Zhao Gang’s White Night embraces both classical and contemporary notions of painting to explore the relationship between individual identities and cultural conflicts. Since the pandemic, Zhao Gang has created still-life paintings as a commentary and a diary of daily life in Beijing. White Night alludes to Old Master works that idealise commodities as a marker for wealth, status or happiness. The artist enlarges a bottle of wine, a vase of flowers and a bowl of fruit to an unreal scale, in a sense exalting each object.

Zhao Gang’s artistic style is characterised by audacious and almost exaggerated narrative techniques and brushwork. These elements serve not only as a perpetual reaffirmation of his own existence but also as a defiant stance against the prevailing trend of artistic refinement. His works celebrate the unfettered freedom and authenticity inherent in painting.

Zhao Gang’s White Night embraces both classical and contemporary notions of painting to explore the relationship between individual identities and cultural conflicts. Since the pandemic, Zhao Gang has created still-life paintings as a commentary and a diary of daily life in Beijing. White Night alludes to Old Master works that idealise commodities as a marker for wealth, status or happiness. The artist enlarges a bottle of wine, a vase of flowers and a bowl of fruit to an unreal scale, in a sense exalting each object.

Zhao Gang’s artistic style is characterised by audacious and almost exaggerated narrative techniques and brushwork. These elements serve not only as a perpetual reaffirmation of his own existence but also as a defiant stance against the prevailing trend of artistic refinement. His works celebrate the unfettered freedom and authenticity inherent in painting.

Zhao Gang’s White Night embraces both classical and contemporary notions of painting to explore the relationship between individual identities and cultural conflicts. Since the pandemic, Zhao Gang has created still-life paintings as a commentary and a diary of daily life in Beijing. White Night alludes to Old Master works that idealise commodities as a marker for wealth, status or happiness. The artist enlarges a bottle of wine, a vase of flowers and a bowl of fruit to an unreal scale, in a sense exalting each object.

Zhao Gang’s artistic style is characterised by audacious and almost exaggerated narrative techniques and brushwork. These elements serve not only as a perpetual reaffirmation of his own existence but also as a defiant stance against the prevailing trend of artistic refinement. His works celebrate the unfettered freedom and authenticity inherent in painting.

Zhao Gang’s White Night embraces both classical and contemporary notions of painting to explore the relationship between individual identities and cultural conflicts. Since the pandemic, Zhao Gang has created still-life paintings as a commentary and a diary of daily life in Beijing. White Night alludes to Old Master works that idealise commodities as a marker for wealth, status or happiness. The artist enlarges a bottle of wine, a vase of flowers and a bowl of fruit to an unreal scale, in a sense exalting each object.

Zhao Gang’s artistic style is characterised by audacious and almost exaggerated narrative techniques and brushwork. These elements serve not only as a perpetual reaffirmation of his own existence but also as a defiant stance against the prevailing trend of artistic refinement. His works celebrate the unfettered freedom and authenticity inherent in painting.